What??!?
So sad they have such market capture and monopoly on access they can do such unreasonable thing. Those dates are entirely unreasonable.
I'm going to my VCR store and rent the VHS when it is released there -- I won't renew my Skyshowtime subscription on July as I had planned as a protest.
Yes. And no. Develop capabilities to ensure you can defeat your enemy. Then scale down using game theory. It's what has been done with nuclear warheads count.
Right now we can't trust several players so yes, do arm. Also get into politics to prevent bad players (national or foreign) to take over the government.
You're mostly right -- those names sound like overkill. However do note I have been using Bitwarden's Name Generator (random noun + number) and I've evolved the scheme a bit ( it is now always 'user' and I keep adding numbers until the generated username is available ).
I used Facebook on my GOS phone. I thank Meta for refreshing my weariness of big corp.