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Depends on your definition of con-man. He has been arrested and charged for tax evasion. As far as I know he isn’t “conman” as such as having conned/frauded say viewers or so on out of money.

ehhhh food hygiene?

However given a century of military history, anyone signing up for US military service ought to expect high probability of dying in a very stupid war far away from home.

“Our client dictator is getting little too uppity” or one persons ego, stupid both.

Self emergent clock is still a clock in my books? Just a rather fundamental clock. Clock that makes the time it is measuring? Then again what else is say even an atomic clock. temporal spacing emerging from the changes of state of a physical phenomenon. Solar clock ain’t measuring time either. It measures orbital position of Earth and Sun. We then assign these numbers to these changes of patterns. Then we note, oh hey these make up useful repeating patterns.

I’m sure in some goes way over my head way, this is different. However… if the end result (even without directly measuring time) is being able to tell change in time/temporal ordering etc., it is a clock. By certain (at minimum my own definition) of clock. Nice thing about definitions. One can even make ones own.

By some definition, anything that allows measuring time is a clock. It might be a weird clock, but clock still.