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[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, they have a mechanical arm that holds a pen and duplicate the motions of a signature. And then has a feeding mechanism so that you can sign a whole gaggle of documents automatically.

They used to be a contraption that with linkages that held a bunch of pens. More of a "multi-pen". It's funny that signing papers got to be labor intensive enough of a problem that they had to invent productivity devices in the 1800s. I could imagine that if Trump had to manually sign every Jan 6 pardon, he probably would have just let them rot in prison instead.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Oh PRESIDENTS get fancy little pen tools but when I had to write labels for 20 leftover pizzas every night i had to do them individually πŸ™„πŸ™„πŸ™„

[-] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

You gotta sign it by hand if it's really important, which is pizza people don't get autopens

[-] reaper_cushions@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Nah, Trump loves signing things. It’s probably his favourite aspect of being president.

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