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I’d like to suggest that you pay for your hobby yourself.
Why should anyone support your tax deductible website where you sell your books 24/7/365 days a year.
Quit begging and pay your own bills.
As soon as you write something worth paying for I’ll send money.
Don’t hold your breath.
Funny.
https://youtu.be/rdwz0W7l_IM?si=xZlrEKyvg7Uc3fHf
Moronically funny
That escalated quickly
https://t.ly/XqobD
Say the best, think the rest.
You can’t brighten your day by blowing out someone else’s candle.
Bosco Bob,
Why? Because the site provides interesting information, mostly about space exploration efforts, but also about a number of other topics.
Why? Because the owner very obviously appreciates and respects his audience, and he is willing to engage with it regularly.
Why? Because the owner, through Cool Images and Evening Pauses, keeps the site entertaining, and not simply informative.
Why? Because the owner has common sense.
Such a site is, indeed, worth visiting and worth supporting.
F
You are correct, Bob does publish interesting info occasionally. He also spreads russian propaganda. I assumed Putin was financing the site.
Respects his audience?
You must be new here.
I have seen vile behavior from Bob in the comments directed at people who disagreed with him. It doesn’t happen every day but it’s childish behavior from someone old enough to know better.
I’m sure Bob at some point in his life had
common sense but if you read his rantings about covid it is obvious he has no medical expertise and he proves it over and over and over and over. Read the external links when he provides them. He has in the past linked to retracted papers, and he really likes to link to preprint papers that have not yet been peer reviewed, that is, if the title sounds like it supports his point. If this kind of cherry picking the data seems OK to you, enjoy! But that’s not how science works.
He apparently seems to think he knows something about climate science too, he read a book once. Same cherry picking data, same lack of any expertise, you can believe that too if you like.
If you enjoy his disinformation by all means please send him all your money.
I have no problem with Bob publishing whatever he desires, true or not.
I just think he should pull himself up by his bootstraps and quit being a Marxist freeloader.
Pay your own bills like a good little conservative should.
Bosco Bob,
Maybe you’re correct, and I’m “new” here . . .
Then again, I have been visiting the site, just about every day, for well over a year, and I have not been triggered in the same manner that you apparently have.
I wonder, if the site and its owner are so bad, why are YOU here? Do you believe you are working to “save” its readers from its owner and his common sense?
Actually, I really don’t care whether or not you answer these questions. If you are dumb enough to believe the site is owned by a Marxist or a Putin promoter, your opinion isn’t worth my time.
Cotour-
Hilarious!
James Street-
Too quickly, someone needs their meds tuned-up.
In simple terms, bureaucracies try to stop things, and they can’t stop themselves.
Power corrupts.
This causes massive destruction and is evil.
Zelle works very well and very simply, i wish more sites used it.
Bob,
My Zelle monies sent to you is money well spent as I get great value in return. My space technology information needs are well met. I get timely, topical insights into plans, events and policies that affect society and the world around us (many times this arrives in the unvarnished truth packaging). And, best of all, I get a sense of tolerant, open-minded, and intelligent camaraderie here. I believe that almost all of the BtB krewe hope for underdogs to succeed, that pompous blowhards get some come-uppance, and that the ball keeps moving forward.
I would even venture that most BtB fans are hoping, even praying, that Boscoe Bob has a positive intervention, gets the help he needs and starts to become that good man his parents always wished he might become.
Tom
Tom,
Thank you for your kind remarks about my work.
Judd,
Thank you for plugging Zelle, and using it. It has made a significant difference, because the same donations given through Zelle are automatically 16% higher than the same donation through Paypal, and 12% higher than Patreon.
Hey Bob, thanks for all you do. Your site is outstanding and worth supporting. I doubled my monthly Zelle, headed your way. best regards, Mark
Mark: And thank YOU for your donation each month. The increase is appreciated greatly.