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 The Internet has evolved a perfect shorthand for something which is a bit too long or detailed: TL;DR. It means, Too Long, Didn't Read. But it also means sorry I'm not taking the time to dig into this.
Interestingly, this has also come to stand for a summary; here's the TL;DR, meaning, here's the essence, the takeaway. I love and use it.
And so now we have a related shorthand that I love: V;DW. It means Video, Didn't Watch. But it really means, no, I don't want to watch a video, just tell me. And maybe it can mean, no, I don't want to click through to YouTube or some other baggage-y, link-filled, ad-invested website just so I can watch a dumb video. (Too bad about YouTube, eh?)
 And by analogy, it can stand for a summary, here's the V;DW, meaning, here's the essence so you don't have to watch the video. Whew!
The Internet is wonderful and I love all the great explanations for anything you can think of - and many many things you would never think of at all. But how crummy is it when the "answers" returned by Google are links to a bunch of videos? And half of them are someone speaking the answer, when it could simply have been written down. Anyway.
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