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Apple's PR representative stated:

If all apples are fruit, and all fruit are of a tree, then surely all fruit of a tree are apples. The world needs to understand that every fruit is our intellectual property now. We've earned that place with our iconic innovation. We're currently in talks with Fruit of the Loom, and our team is confident that they will rebrand as 'Of the Loom'. It's a fresh, modern take for their products that will be mutually beneficial to both parties.

I reached out to Fruit of the Loom's PR representative, nothing yet.

This just in, Apple sues the estate of 2000+ year old man for his depiction of an apple in Genesis, the popular and riveting first book in the collaborative effort written 2 millennia ago: The Bible.

I reached out to Apple's PR representative, I'll let you know if they get back to me.

People who have good reasoning skills can see it for what it is, so we need to collectively get into the habit of calling out disingenuous manipulation and put a stop to it. Rather than focusing on refuting each specific point, draw attention to the most ridiculous points, refute one or two, then stop engaging entirely because it is self-defeating.

The fact that this man is still given televised platforms after everything is unreal. All that does is give the illusion that there is substance to his manipulation. He needs to be shunned to his echo chamber and the world needs to move on.

It's quite possible that the data includes private communications between admin and mods. So I'd say so, yes.

They absolutely continued and never stopped. I have a shadowbanned account right now for the crime of signing up under a VPN. This happened last month, it was shadowbanned from the moment of creation. I can post all I want with it, but when someone else tries to look for my posts or profile, it does not exist.

It makes me wonder if they would restore wiped comments from accounts that have been deleted?

I hope we're able to avoid drama ourselves in the long run. I don't mind at all seeing it from a distance, but it would suck to be a direct part of it.

I humbly protest as someone finding out for someone else's fuck around.

The username of the commenter is so ironic. The guy who invented transcendental meditation did the same thing to meditation that spez did to reddit's API. TM is meditation's superfluous third nipple and heavily monetized. Anyone can meditate for free, but for it to be considered "transcendental", you must pay a certified teacher and learn through them. I guess some people just like it when people are charged for things unnecessarily.

So Ernest is earnest? Cool.