You're missing some key facts:

1. A lot of music on YouTube is fully licensed and uploaded by the owners or Google themselves. Like VEVO music, for instance.
2. Google runs a content match algorithm on all uploads to detect music and movies. If you upload more than four seconds of a song, Google will detect it and transfer all monitization of that upload to the rights holder. This is why music documentaries like Trash Theory only have frustratingly short clips of the music they are talking about, and why channels like Techmoan, which documents weird music formats and playback devices, can also only share extremely short clips.

The rights holders are getting any and all money on music uploaded to YouTube, and your entire premise is flawed.

A "burner" account? Never heard it called that before. "Sock puppet" or just "puppet" makes much more sense.

This is called a VRIF, Voluntary Reduction in Force, and usually comes with a sizable severance. Lots of people close to retirement at my last job took the offer because it was worth it.

All wages are paid by customers. Where do you think the money to pay them comes from? Heaven?

The underhanded and sneaky part is that the menu prices are a lie. If they want to pay a decent wage to their employees, good on them, but they should just raise all menu prices by 18% instead of surprising you later.

Gboard is especially bad at this. If a word could in any conceivable way be capitalized, it will capitalize it.

Don't use shady sites. Use yt-dlp.

They can hire me for $1M to write some basic code that gives stock answers when someone says "Thank you", instead of running it through the LLM. Think of the savings!

I'm worth the $1M because I'm clearly the only person to have ever thought of this. /s.

Anyone have a citation about the rat not getting the money? People keep saying that, but I haven't seen a single article posted about it.

This is a dumb one, but I've watched ASMR reiki videos for stress-relief and at least one has said words like "Reiki is an ancient Japanese technique which blah blab blah" Yeah... It was made up in the 50's 1910s by some dude.

Um, we can all see what instance you're from...

Wait, are we in mildyinfuriatinghomeownerproblems?

Fun fact: People abbreviate it "heli" or "copter", when in fact the two parts of the word are "helico" and "pter". (Think: helical or pterodactyl)

Try pronouncing it helico-pter, and pronounce the P and make it rhyme with "tare" as in pterodactyl. You'll sound like you have a French accent, or something.

Microsoft is the fucking worst with their trick questions and constant nagging.

They do this because they want you to use Edge which steals search results from other search engines.

Without my glasses, I thought the thumbnail was some kind of ape. I blurred this screenshot a little to simulate.

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The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
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MORAL

Shut up, dirt hat!

Good luck getting it to run no matter where you buy it! You'll need patches and a prayer circle to play it.

Citizens United.