From what you’ve described it seems their main concern was you not getting pregnant.
As to whether it was the best strategy, depends on their beliefs and what other options you and your boyfriend had.

You can get a lifetime subscription now, next year ‘we have reviewed customer choices and will be discontinuing the lifetime subscription’, so they can continue to milk their customers

That’s not the cup, as it says on it the brand is Yeti. I have one, it is larger than average but not anything like 1.5L.
Here it is:
https://au.yeti.com/products/rambler-14-oz-2-0-414-ml-mug?variant=41262301053062

14oz / 414ml

These also have the advantage of being nice and quiet, which if you are going to have it in your house rather than a hot garage or whatever can be nice.
I bought a NAS, later realised that it supported Plex and Jellyfin but it was often too slow to do the transcoding. I still use it for storage but there were no real upgrade options. It was cheaper to get an old NUC, rather than replace the NAS with a high spec one to be able to run Jellyfin properly.

USB Superposition

Sounds much like: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Effort, risk

For research

Anthrax
Haven’t listened to them much in years but I used to like their album, The Sound of White Noise. Singer can be a bit gruff but doesn’t quite scream like I think you are talking about.

That every store wants you to sign up and have you give them your details.
When I bought a shirt in a department store a couple of years ago and the guy wanted me to give him my email address “to save paper” (yeah right), rather than give me a receipt. It was like we were having a stand off for a while there. I just want to buy a shirt not sign up for ongoing spam!

Good to see it as a chart but that is different to the results it returns

Indeed, reminds me of the ones that give you a “power wash [for] your intestines”:
https://www.mashed.com/444725/read-this-before-eating-haribo-sugar-free-gummy-bears/

Going before the lines form can be a good strategy.

Was wondering if Robert Miles - Children had a music video with a lot of foresight.
https://youtu.be/DvyCbevQbtI

I find the “just falls back” on top to be #5 (5/8 inch) for me. It will obviously vary for each person but if you can figure out that number, you can be more specific and it might mean less trial and error for the hairdresser.

How did you cause them to go bankrupt?

A lot of those look like roads to water tanks with the tanks being obvious in before and after images, just the roads having higher contrast with vegetation around. Clearly a few new roads though.

A bit hard to get to German hospital when you are in a Russian prison in the attic circle

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/life-expectancy

As for rich folks, yeah probably

Current US life expectancy 79.25. Trump is currently 77…