Benign

Classic fascist doublethink. Straight out of the book. The enemy is both strong/dangerous enough to be a serious threat, but the fascist is still somehow very superior to them. 🤷

I saw it on kurtzgesagt YouTube channel. “rethink exercise” was in the video title I think.

Nvidia hairworks on men’s chest hair? 😅

US law doesn’t care what companies do to consumers. The law only cares what they do to other companies. Apple own their own hardware production and ecosystem, so they aren’t harming other companies (directly).

No conspiracy needed.

If someone want an alternative there is ebooks.com. The two titles I got from there were way cheeper than on the store linked to my device. No nonsense app or anything, just download the file from the store and do what you want with it.

Maybe consider https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki I haven’t had a chance to use it myself, but I am intrigued.