shouldbebabysitting

Your claim that you only get 5% of your energy breathing through your mouth is ridiculous. You can see Olympic swimmers with nose clips. They are functioning better than 99% of the world and they are breathing only through their mouth.

Because of severe hay fever, for decades I spent summers breathing only through my mouth. It's not a big deal.

The reality is you will get a court order with a requirement to not disclose the court order. You will not be allowed to disable the service.

The purpose of the canary is so that users can know this has happened.

IMO it is far worse than a used car salesman. Because you can shop around from car to car to negotiate a better price.

Once you are in a hospital, (and you might be admitted without your knowledge such as a car accident), they have you captive and charge whatever they want because you can't pick anything different.

Once admitted it's, "Give him a urine test." You can't say, "I want my urine test done at TestCenter 2 because they're 50% cheaper."

If a retiree signed up with a financial manager and that financial manager proceeded to charge $1000 fees to the account for pencil sharpening, you could easily win a fraud case. So hospitals doing the same, especially because the customer is in no position to negotiate, is fraud.

long before it was common knowledge that Silicon Valley had become a lie

You mean 1990? I got a job at a Palo Alto startup in 1992 and met veterans from the 80's who had already been through a couple cycles of hyped stock options / overwork / burnout.

It's always been a lie- like playing the lottery can make you a millionaire.

I think Google managed to skew things for several years by hiring so very many new employees that there weren't any veterans to give a reality check to the new meat.

have somehow been convinced to vehemently opposed anything IN THEIR OWN BEST INTEREST.

I see that argument thrown around whenever someone disagrees with someone's politics.

For example, I'm pro affirmative action despite it being against my own best interest.

Warren Buffet frequently talks about how the rich are under taxed despite that being against his own best interest.

Voting for what you believe is right should not be based on your own best interest but what is best for everyone.