Being naturally occuring or contrived influences their legitimacy and staying power.

Most of them were not made up recently, and in a book of words made up for that book.

I believe there was a book in the 80s called Sniglets that made up words for things and this was one of them. I didn’t remember what it was called. Any or all of this memory could be wrong.

What?

I live in Japan. I could wave money around begging for a copyright owner to take it, but they refuse to take it and I can’t access the content.

Good counter metaphor. When Audible disappears my book, and I can’t do anything about it, that is theft.

When corporations write the laws, the laws help corporation.

Pretty sure this is sarcasm, but it is not wrong, so also not sure.

I’d use cloth or you may leave bits.

Does this apply to hamburger too?

We use non-virgin olive oil. High smoke point, but good flavor.