I just listed 7 specific insults directed at me.

It is hard to defend the claim that rate-and-state friction and its prediction for the correlation between tides and quakes and my observation of the correlation is not even just a theory.

R&S friction as developed by Dieterich predicts with mathematical precision, and with just 2 free parameters, the quake-tide correlation. The "theory" has been validated by dozens of studies in laboratories by Marone, Beeler, Byerlee, Lockner, Dieterich, Tullis, and their post-docs and students. The quake-tide correlation measured by me for tectonic earthquakes after many decades of previous attempts is a test of the quite well-developed theory.

If you have an alternative theory for friction in rocks, perhaps you should do the hundreds of us now using rate-and-state theory a favor and propose it, say why rate-and-state is wrong, and how your theory explains the literally thousands of papers written on this subject better.