Disclaimer 1: We actually didn't totally remove jQuery as we have a few custom features and pages that use it, but for ~99.7% of our pages, it's gone! Disclaim

Disclaimer 1: We actually didn't totally remove jQuery as we have a few custom features and pages that use it, but for ~99.7% of our pages, it's gone! Disclaimer 2: The following method isn't something we recommend if you rely heavily on front-end contrib modules, authenticated traffic, or parts of Drupal 7 core that depend on jQuery.