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Ex_spurt

@Ex_spurt@aus.social

He/Him. Your friendly local, mostly retired guy. Likes sciencey stuff, cars (especially the electric and/or heavily armoured kind), wandering around in the bush, mucking around with food. Ex electrician, soldier, salesman, business manager, consultant, public servant. Proud dad and step-dad. Eternally frustrated customer of https://scorpinc.solutions. Partly retired. May randomly talk about #tanks. Opinions are my own and subject to change.

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dgar, to random
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Religion

Ex_spurt,
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@dgar that's as close as any priest should be allowed to get to children

Ex_spurt, to random
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Yes, he has some electrical engineering qualifications from the 70s, but Rowan has spent the past 45 years as an actor and is no expert in any related field. He is an amatuer car nut and has owned a hybrid and an EV but also a lot of very expensive fuel guzzling cars such as a McClaren F1, Honda NSX and Audi A8 to name a few.

Rowan is a wealthy 68 year old celebrity writing an opinion article and throwing in some fairly wild and fanciful descriptions ('souless' EVs, 'absurdly heavy', 'rapidly obsolescing batteries') that sound ok because it fits his Blackadder persona. Also, some of his assertions are wildly selective, out of date, or just plain wrong.

Keeping an old car and using it (a lot) less is a very good alternative if you can achieve it, although coming from a collector like Rowan it's a bit rich. But that idea is hidden in some very flowery language and murmurings of all sorts of well known and highly disputed alternatives like hydrogen, without even alluding to all the problems that that brings (and why the fossil fuel industry has pushed it heavilly as an alternative since the 1980s).

It may be his genuine opinion as an actor and car collector. But it is easy to imagine the exact same thing written by someone like Jeremy Clarkson or even Twiggy Forrest. Is it really a well considered article? Or is it just an author we all want to believe?

Ex_spurt, to random
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Police training in handling dementia patients is a terrible idea and no more than an arse covering exercise for people in power.

Forcing some facist thug to spend 30 minutes in front of a screen watching mind numbingly obvious self-paced training videos will do nothing to help.

Calculate the time wasted calling cops on mental illness, take that money off them and put it towards health services, and keep the cops the fuck away from sick people.

Also, fuck the profit focussed aged care services for always defaulting to free alternatives (eg cops) when more staff resources are required

ernie, (edited ) to random
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Twitter is straight up recommending a space hosted by Richard Spencer. I can't remove this. It's stuck at the top of my timeline

EDIT: I have determined this was because a journalist I was following decided to listen in. (This is a situation where, if you’re reporting, you might want to pull out your secondary.)

Ex_spurt,
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@ernie there's actually a really simple way to remove it from your life forever

Ex_spurt, to random
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PSA: Don't hide your cute animal pics behind a content warning. We all need that stuff shot straight into our eyeballs on a regular basis

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