I was given to furiously to think when I read your post. I came to the conclusion that for myself, the responsibility to grow as a person requires my personal commitment to do so. It isn't something that can be showered upon me by factors outside myself. This isn't just music, this is everything.

BUT, It's Friday, the weekend beckons, and there's an indie band playing at a restaurant I've never been to, and I raided the couch cushions for some spare change. I may not like the music or the food, but then again, I might!

But YouTube already says you can't repost Hollywood content!

If Apple started to create such a network and then accepted payment not to enter it, that may run afoul of Sarbanes Oxley for reporting and The Sherman Antitrust Act for colluding with the payment processors not to compete. You may recall that several pharma companies have had "a bit of a pother" over their very profitable drugs going off patent and the generic manufacturers that ... aren't making those drugs.... for a payment.

That there is very little true competition in payment processing is seemingly a bit odd.
That the fee structure seem to strangely be pretty much congruent with each other should make your spidey sense tingle.

To your point, no one can force another to enter a business is correct. However, it's may not be just that simple.

Here's the key:

Yeah, I've seen this before. They want you to get "skilled up" then don't give you any more pay for being a better worker. Thing to look out for are those very expensive training courses the company selected and then "pays for" which are utterly useless. But it puts you on the hook for a multi-year commitment and no raises because you got that very expensive training for free out of the goodness of their heart!

Close as I remember, no, it started in 2005 or so. It started to go downhill rapidly in 2019.

I see no facts or evidence to blame them for Google's decline on Trump or Trumpers.
Many other things, yes. Just not Google's enshittifcation.

YouTube, in any administration but the right wing, would be facing all kinds of hell for the scam ads it accepts. The penultimate was the toy robot dog with that jingle bells playing, now it's the rubber band air conditioners that even Walmart had to withdraw. CFPB and the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection have been gutted into uselessness. It seems to me that Alphabet is now the very definition of "evil" they pretend not to be. More proof, as if we needed it, that entropy only runs down hill. The Enshittification of the Universe.

...we don't? For the past few weeks, I've had Chrome act really squirrely on my daily driver to the point I VM'd a machine on a bastion to verify it wasn't simply a virus on my Linux box. Nope. The brand new install with base software and no extras was acting squirrely too, in exactly the same places in exactly the same way. No, not going into it just yet because I could be doing something incredibly stupid. Yes. I make mistakes sometimes. That's how you know someone is actually doing something and not simply lollygagging around. People that aren't working and doing new things never make mistakes. It's careful people that don't make them where it affects production.

I find that the assertion of 60K jobs in seven plants to be failing the smell test. That would be 8,571 people per plant. Mr. Google pants show me that on average a chip plant employed 2,200 for a 24/7/365 operation and that the job curve is skewed to warehousing, custodial, and security, with relatively few making more than 40K, slightly above poverty wages ($32,150 for a family of 4).

My suspicion, with no real evidence other than history, is that the announcement is a targeted effort to please the vanity of one particular person in Washington DC. Not the first time this has been done, nor the first time that particular person stopped a merger/acquisition from personal pique because a party involved was a perceived enemy.

In this case, given India's history of running air craft, railroads, and other mass transportation, I'm thinking it has little to do with Boeing and more to do with maintenance cycles. It's been reported that someone (unclear if it was maintenance or a random passenger) was taking pictures to document wide spread electrical failures in the passenger cabin on the flight prior to the crash. Which is not to say that Boeing isn't blameless, nor that in my opinion that their "leadership" has serious issues and failures. There's a reason folks say:

IF IT'S BOEING, I AIN'T GOING!

You're not counting product placement in the "program" - which to my mind has become simply the primary ad of a endless stream of ads. Keeping in mind that I stopped watching any mainstream "entertainment" 25 years ago because of the damn ads, not just on OTA, but premium and 'exclusive' premium products. (I'm not counting being forced to go see a movie as a work 'team building' exercise). If there's a way to extract another dollar from any situation, you may be sure that the end stage capitalism we are in will find it. On the whole, I don't object to the ads in principal. I object to the stupefying ignorance and idiocy of them and their assumption that will sell me something.

The usual practice is to have rate limits on the API to prevent things like runaway ansible playbooks creating thousands of allocations. I don't recall which of the cloud providers but that API limit was usually set to no more than 50 to 100 VPS creations within 24 hours. Yes, the limit could be raised. One customer doing quite legitimate work would start spinning up thousands of VPSs at XAM their time, and spin them down at the end of their work. I am not allowed to say why, but it made sense to me, kinda. I don't know if they ever found out they would have gotten those same resources for less if they'd just leave 'em spinning or not. The customer was not one we looked forward to dealing with.

Support at [different cloud providers I worked at] would sometimes raise a ticket to allocate IPs to specific customer VPS instations. Unless it was a well established customer, such requests were usually declined but given root access to the infrastructure, it's possible to do - if there's a good enough reason to do it. Money for one. Big customer (which is another way to say "money") is another. I've even seen cases at one cloud company that would delete someone's instantiation without warning to evacuate the resources from the specific infrastructure, and pass it off to the customers as "an emergency hardware failure". Which was utter BS and would tick me off. We had tools they could use to safely and seamlessly evacuate instantations but either did not know, or did not care, or most common didn't want to justify it to the change management control process. Change Management is a pain in the neck, I know, but when dealing with hundreds of thousands to millions of servers in tens of dozens of data centers around the world, some process control is not avoidable even if it is a PITA.

I'm going to have to think about that for some time, but off the cuff, I'd say most are Catholic because that's how they were raised, not due to any specific ideology other than Religion. Recall the quote from Proverbs "Train a boy in the way he should go; even when he is old, he will not swerve from it." At what point does early inculcation and canalization preclude any other thought pattern - and can I do that myself, since I was also subjected to it? An Ouroboros contemplation there.

Used to work for a State government that used satellite brokers to get pictures of areas that were hours old. This was done for infrastructure planning and expansion and did not have "side look" capabilities like drones do. EG: a satellite can't look into your window, but a drone can. Also, Satellites have "iris control" so that the NSA or NRO can stop US based satellites from photographing areas they don't want photographed. Drones have restrictions but not the same. Drones are cheap and quick, satalite can require weeks to months for a specific mission window to be available and are NOT, repeat NOT cheap. A typical photo mission at 1 m is multiple thousands of dollars. Not sure of today's rates, my time was more than a decade ago.
Bottom line, Sat is good when you have a known time window and a need for "big picture". Drones are good for "Right Now, Right There" missions. Different tools for different needs.

The 4th Amendment states:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

So are you advocating for the repeal of all the bill off rights, or just this one?