ianfarquhar.bsky.social
Formerly ianbfarquhar on Twitter, before the moron Musk turned it into a fascist hell hole. Progressive. All posts represent my personal opinion only. He/him.
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It’s not that they don’t have it, it’s that the implementation of it is so incredibly poor. If a car is delivered in 2024, it should support USB-C PD, and wireless charging at more than 7.5W. My 2024 car can’t wirelessly charge enough to run CarPlay without draining the battery. Not fit for purpose.
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Or which revolted us then, and now seems even more grossly obscene.
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I recently saw a (🤮) Aristocrat poker machine which had buttons with little screens in them. They seem to be a custom unit for that company, but I wish I could source them as they were so beautiful for projects like this. And honestly, many other things too.
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Not entirely sure why you’d tag me in this, but I agree, I cannot see Iran not retaliating, nor do I expect the damage inflicted to be nearly as devastating as Trump is claiming given the time Iran has to prepare for this attack.
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A rare exception.
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Especially in audio tech. Most of them are a trademarked brand name, and there really isn’t a lot of actual technology behind them.
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What am I doing? I’m laughing at this:
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Unless private prison companies are funding your election campaign (overly or covertly), and offering you board seats post-politics.
But it’s Queensland. That sort of corruption could never happen there. 🤣
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They hate the “other”. They believe they are in the majority, and that most people are secretly as awful and disgusting as they are. Their biggest fear is rejection from the group, and fear is their primary emotional driver. Performative cruelty from strong authority figures makes them feel safe.
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There is a field of social study, founded in work from the 50s but really starting to focus in the 90s, which looks into where this comes from (Social Dominance Theory). Cruelty is core to their psychology. When you read the work, the term “deplorable” really doesn’t go far enough.
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Look up “Right Wing Authoritarians” under “Social Dominance Theory”. There is your Reform Voter, your MAGA, your Canadian Conservative, your Australian LNP voter.
Mentally below average, simplistic thinking style, fear driven, bigoted, selfish, easily led, convinced they’re the normal ones. Them.
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There are very, very few alternatives left. You’d think that the swarm of Christian Churches with unusual names which seem to pop up in industrial units around the country would have some progressives, but every single one seems hard right (and happily taking a tax exemption).
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The evidence suggests that it can be. A lot of people leave Christianity, looking back on their time inside the “religion” with absolute horror at the things it made them do.
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As I just said outside this reply, religious people who claim that ethics can only be derived from religion aren’t actually ethical people. They’re just obedient.
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Exactly, if your ethics are entirely mandated by an outside authority, you’re not ethical at all, you’re just obedient.
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It’s almost like having a religion which has a built in “get out of jail [hell] free card” is a bad idea or something.
Also doesn’t help that the entire religious structure attracts people who lack impulse control.
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It’s a matter of motive, in far too many cases.
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My problem with social dominance theory is that it explains a personality type. I think it’s a pathology, akin and probably comorbid with the many other DSM-V personality disorders.
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I am finding a lot to ponder in Social Dominance Theory which, at least from what I can see explains a lot of where we are today when combined with the (literally) unholy alliance of neoliberalism and evangelical Christianity. Add in some good ol’ fashioned racism, but that’s core to evangelicalism.
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They stain fabric.
(I had to look it up also.)
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Well played. 😈
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There is a growing body of research showing that intensive AI use causes fairly quick cognitive decline in some key mental capabilities.
And it’s also not like the people who do this had spare capacity either.
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Anyone else seeing a correlation?