Apple has long treated thier own customers with a certain level of disrespect. It is the way of luxury brands, to question if you're good enough to deserve their products.

Musk's own bombastic promises have evrything to do with how he is treatedin the media.

Which Old Testament laws do I follow and which do I ignore? The Old Testament law was given to the ancient nation of Israel, not to Christians. So if the law isn't repeated in the New Testament, then it's probably not applicable to anyone living outside of Israel.

Ugh, that's a soft science. We're doing hard science, which is the only real science.

Sit at home, with home invasions on the rise?!

Having a U2 album you need to delete is not the worst thing you will face in life. Imagine a world where your boss gave you a free ticket to his daughter's violin recital. It's a "free" ticket, but man there are so many strings attached. And your time isn't free but it's also nice to have a paying job.

A company (foreign or domestic) can, if they are large enough, apply political, economic, and social pressure on a nation in order to have their own way. This is how it works in the US, and how it works in most of the rest of the world, for better or worse.

In addition, compliance can also be done in a malicious way. To the letter of the law, but ultimately ineffective. And remember that for a business like Apple, every delay and every threat is a negotiation tactic. They've always operated this way, not just with governments but with vendors and retail channels.

There are some PD or freeware Asian fonts, more for Chinese than for Japanese, but not many of them are great or useful for every purpose. Free design fonts are rare, but that's also the case for Latin-based languages too. A good design font is usually going to cost money. If you're making a company logo that's a different set of requirements than publishing a newsletter or magazine, versus a website, versus an app or game.

Famously there is Japan's IPA (Information-technology Promotion Agency) Font series. The most popular one is very institutional looking, like what you might find on information or warning sign. If you ever want to make your own version of a bathhouse notice, check out IPA Mincho, which is available as a standard package in most Linux distros. (e.g. apt-get install fonts-ipafont-mincho)

History seems to indicate that we had streets before we had cars.

Any communication technology can be tracked - cell towers can pinpoint your location, hard lines obviously are laid to a specific address so the idea that your location can be tracked when your using a particular service is nothing new, and many governments already require the ability to locate an individual subscriber when presented by an appropriate warrant or court order.
A service which cannot pinpoint users would be illegal in many countries and would not gain regulatory approval.

A healthy body will regulate blood sugar, and when someone suffers from diabetes their ability to regulate blood sugar is compromised. This can result in either dangerously high or dangerously low blood sugar levels.
Doctors would recommend patients drinking a sugary energy drink if their blood sugar dips to dangerous levels, but this becomes difficult when a lot of places don't even sell full sugar drinks any more.

Someone with diabetes needs to control their sugar intake, not replace sugar entirely. This becomes a lot harder when products that previously contained a lot of sugar now contain something else without obvious differentiation on the packaging.

Some artificial sweeteners were found to pose higher risks for diabetes than sugar, for instance: https://www.oncologyrepublic.c...
and yet people are pushed towards the sweeteners as if they're a magic solution etc.

In many countries it's becoming increasingly difficult to avoid artificial sweeteners. There are many restaurants now where the only soft drinks available contain sweeteners, your only options are alcohol or water.
For years we were offered a choice, but now the full sugar choice is being increasingly taken away from people.

You are REQUIRED to eat something, you might only be able to afford the cheap low quality options. Not eating at all will result in a slow painful death.

You do not need to smoke, the cheapest option is not to smoke at all, anyone can afford to not smoke.

And they nodoubt run promotions encouraging you to buy more of this healthy food, buy one get one free offers, discounts for large quantities etc.
Even the healthiest of foods are unhealthy when consumed excessively.
What does this grocery store do to promote moderate consumption?

Depends on the individual UPF...
There have been various drives in the past to reduce fat and salt, and in some cases these things were replaced with unhealthy quantities of sugar, or corn syrup etc.
If you push them to remove/reduce sugar, it will be almost always be replaced with something even worse.

That reminds me of home, in the suburbs of the Midwest