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When they tried Roombas for the yearly vacuuming of these rocks they all fell off the edge and caused a lot of hard work retrieving them, after that they changed the name of the place and went back to vacuuming it with teams of people.

Yep, and you can see a bit of Civic to the right of it behind Mt Taylor.

I should get around to getting up Bimberi this winter, I've been meaning to for years but have never actually done it.

Gingera in the snow is definitely worth a walk - I've been up there a few times and it's very scenic. Next weekend is looking good for such a trip if you're considering it with a decent amount of snow predicted early in the week then fining up for the weekend. Note that you do need to have some degree of fitness though as Stockyard Spur is very steep coming up from Corin Dam and the snow makes things harder once you hit the snow line (snow shoes help if you have or can borrow a pair).

Good to see some progress there, it's not going to make a huge difference at this stage but if it helps progress a more ethical meat option it will be useful in the long run.

Although I can’t imagine an Internal Combusion Engine sub being at all stealthy

Diesel electrics can be very stealthy, with the potential to be even more so than nuclear subs when trying to hide (given equivalent level of technology elsewhere in the design). What they can't do is continue being stealthy for anywhere near the time a nuclear sub can as eventually you need to come near the surface and run the diesel to recharge the batteries. Diesel electrics are also comparatively range limited - while they can travel a considerable distance nuclear subs are effectively only limited by their ability to supply the crew.

There's certainly a lot around, it's a real sign of a big population when you start seeing groups of them hopping around in daylight (like they often are around ADFA/Russell). Sometimes I wonder how much of the burrows have ended up under the roads around there - might make for interesting subsidence issues in the future.

The shooting crews are effective, it made a very noticeable difference on City Hill when they went through there a while back (went from eaten down to roots and bark being chewed to the grass growing back). If the local population is developing resistance to the current calicivirus though the government is going to end up hard pressed trying to shoot enough rabbits to keep up with their population growth (unless we end up in drought anyway).

I'm going to say somewhere near this location looking towards the Gold Coast. Haven't spent time in that region so can't confirm but I'm liking my odds based on the skyline, terrain and view angle.

It does seem odd. The only way I'm seeing to make money off something like part of old mate's driveway would be to get it cheap and sell it to the surrounding owner for a bit of a profit, but when you're bidding against said person and win then you have literally spent more for it then they're willing to pay...

The land being a separate title probably comes down to historical oddities - possibly it was part of an old road reserve that got sold off or something like that.

Can't say I've ever really thought about it, though looking at pictures it does look familiar. Not sure how one differentiates it from native tussock grasses though.

I have stronger feelings about things like blackberries, fireweed, lantana, and crofton weed as these are ones I've had to put work into removing before (and blackberry is a pain for encroaching on single track networks or blocking off path walking). Running bamboo too to an extent, but while painful to get rid of that's one that I think can be a nice sort of plant when in an appropriate location.

If you start believing that racism is the cause of all your woes you'll see it everywhere, particularly if - for example - you're still salty about losing a vote to be deputy leader.

It is amusingly ironic though because the Greens both appear the least likely party to actually be racist and the most likely party to have enabled such a mindset during her time with them.

No. That is one question they ask. It is not how they define intimate partner violence.

It's not how they define it in the report but it sure sounds like if you answered yes to that one question they went ahead and classed you as using/experiencing intimate partner violence anyway. It's right there in the report:

To understand the use of intimate partner violence, respondents were presented with a series of questions following the prompt, ‘As an adult, how have you behaved towards a past or present partner?’, and asked to respond either ‘yes’ or ‘no’. Respondents were also able to skip answering these questions. The questions included:

• Have you ever behaved in a manner that has made a partner feel frightened or anxious? (emotional- type abuse)

Similarly, men were coded as ever having used or experienced forms of intimate partner violence by 2022 if they had responded ‘yes’ to any of the types of violence at either the 2013–14 survey or the 2022 survey.

It's from a relatively unusual combination - a 60s era Hasselblad 500c and 150mm lens paired with an older (well much younger than the rest of the system, but still old for digital era) Leaf Aptus digital back I recently picked up. Not something particularly practical for most uses (the body being all manual and the back only good for very low ISO ratings) but old cameras are a bit of an interest of mine.