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Hold on, it really is just a pen on a mechanical arm? I thought this was about like digitally copy/pasting.
TIL as well I always thought it was figurative not literal too
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.
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 🙄🙄🙄
You gotta sign it by hand if it's really important, which is pizza people don't get autopens
Nah, Trump loves signing things. It’s probably his favourite aspect of being president.