Dr. Bob

With all the bots on the site why complain about these ones?

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I’m a scholar. It means not pulling stuff from your ass and citing your sources.

Technology can therefore be defined both as an ensemble of deliberately created processes and objects that together accomplish some function as well as the associated knowledge and skills used in the conception, design, implementation, and operation of such technological artifacts.

O. L. de Weck, Technology Roadmapping and Development, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88346-1_1

Start with your silly claim that “advertising”, as you define it, occurred 30,000 years ago. Any non-suppositional evidence please.

What are you even on about? Persuasion is not advertising. And in the absence of a material culture for advertising, there is literally no basis for the 30,000 year claim. This is pure nonsense and the worst kind of bullshit.

Your late cat clearly had an “outie”.

Well does it!!??!? DON’T LEAVE US HANGING!!1!!1!

Advertising is not a technology and there is no evidence that advertising occured 30,000 years ago. That time period predates capitalism, products and competition among manufacturers, and written language.

What is the bad news?

Go fuck yourself. This is someone who was a child when he watched his friends die to a school shooter. And then faced the worst that the rightwing noise machine could throw at him as they accused him of being a crisis actor and denied that the event happened at all. He has been attacked by politicians and media since before his voice changed. So fuck off with your milquetoast judgments about how something seems a bit “off” with his public persona.

It’s more important to him to criticize the government. If he got briefed he’d realize he’s talking out his ass most of the time.

You are correct. “Bankrupt” is a little strong. But selling existing bonds back into the market while the U.S. is trying to issue new debt would not be great for America. I think dollar devaluation is 100% in the cards.

The US has been living on credit cards for decades now. The rest of the world has supported it because the most important thing for everyone is stability. With trade agreements getting ripped up, and nonsense tariffs everywhere, supporting Americas consumption habits is not necessarily in the world’s interests anymore.

Canada alone holds almost $500 billion in US debt. Europe and Japan hold another $2.5 trillion in US debt. America is picking fights with people who can bankrupt them.

My understanding is that contempt of court can’t be pardoned. The reasoning is that a pardon forgives an action against the (nation)state. Contempt is an offense against the judiciary and is therefore out of scope for the president. But IANAL and I am not even an American so take this for what it’s worth. Benjamin Wittes et al. wrote about this a fair bit over at Lawfare a couple years ago.

Bad faith is the term. IANAL but I’ve been married to two of them. “Bad faith argument” for the action, “acting in bad faith” for the actor. It captures the idea of appearing to comply with procedure and orders, but deliberately misconstruing meanings and inventing ambiguities to justify actions. A gentler version of this is “sharp practice” which comes close to, but doesn’t cross the line into bad faith.

I’m not a phone person. What benefit does this provide?

True heterosexual love between a biological man and a biological woman. It’s why he never hooks up with Lois Lane and keeps sneaking peeks at Jimmy’s junk at the gym.