Tau
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- Comment on How Adelaide Writers' Week imploded after axing Palestinian author 2 days ago:
Bit rich for her to be going on about censorship and silencing authors if she demanded someone else be excluded previously from the same festival over provocative comments.
- Comment on 'An invasive species': How wallabies took over the Isle of Man 4 days ago:
Like the possums in NZ there isn’t really a good reason to keep them around - it’s just interesting to see a switcheroo from the usual stories of other countries animals causing problems in Australia.
- Submitted 4 days ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on Explosions heard, low-flying aircraft seen over Venezuela's capital 1 week ago:
And there goes the chances for a minor incident. I guess I’ll just hope it stays below the level of us getting dragged into another war that we shouldn’t need to be involved in…
- Comment on Explosions heard, low-flying aircraft seen over Venezuela's capital 1 week ago:
Hopefully this ends up just being another relatively minor step in the progression of this conflict, but (probable) air raids on another nations capital does sound like something that could escalate quickly.
- Submitted 1 week ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 29 comments
- Comment on A majority of Australians support banning pro-Palestine marches 2 weeks ago:
Hope this puts into perspective the widely spruiked majority support for tighter gun laws that was used to help ram through changes in NSW.
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
Zip disks ain’t that old!
That’s what I like to think as well, but I guess it has been a while. It’s like how I think 90s cars are still fairly recent until I see ones rolling around with historic rego…
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 1 month ago:
One of the places I work at has a display cabinet showing historical media formats and devices, seeing things in it like the zip disc and the Sony camera that took floppies always make me feel like Elrond:
- Comment on WA Labor senator opposed to proposed reduction of speed limits on unsigned roads 1 month ago:
Yet again I have to mention how dumb it is that we have much safer cars than when our standard speed limits are set but all we ever get is decreases to these limits.
“People think ‘I can do 110 legally so therefore it’s OK to do it,’” he said.
So close to the problem but no we can’t focus on teaching people to drive to conditions because lower speed limits solve everything. Never mind that even 70km/h is going to be too fast in some conditions but 100km/h+ is fine in others - even on the same road.
- Submitted 1 month ago to news@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Tensions erupt in Melbourne as immigration rallies held across Australia 2 months ago:
Pity they swapped out one of the Canberra pictures since I read the article earlier, I found it amusing how well the roadworks sign works with a protest crowd:
- Comment on Police investigate machete brawl at Melbourne shopping centre 2 months ago:
As expected, the people who were already doing illegal things with machetes don’t care about the machete ban. I can’t see Victoria backing down on it though, they’ll probably claim safety requires expanding the ban to knives in general and screw over more law abiding people.
- Comment on Help Me Understand Nampijinpa Price 3 months ago:
Why would you expect Aboriginal people to all vote as a bloc? Nobody does that, regardless of heritage. Expecting them all to vote left wing because you think it would progress their interests is in the same line as someone from the right expecting all white people to vote for them to preserve perceived privileges.
We don’t even have have such a clear political split in groups which would gain direct benefit from progressive parties such as welfare recipients. You’d think that would make for a clear choice between the party that wants to either keep or increase your source of money and the party that wants to cut it, but there’s a lot who still vote conservative either because they believe something else in that side of politics is more important or they simply don’t care enough to think through the ramifications.
- Comment on ABS decision to reuse biased, coercive Census religion question puts human rights in the spotlight 4 months ago:
There already was a “no religion” option, in the last census it was the first checkbox under the question asking what religion you follow.
He does have a point in that the proposed question would have been a more neutral way of determining whether someone is religious, the combination of the implicit assumption in the old question that having a religion is normal and providing an single tick option for selecting common ones probably does make a small percentage say yes that would not in the proposed question. Claims of coercion and human rights abuse though seem a bit over the top and are probably coming more from a dislike of religions (and their political power) rather than a desire for accurate data.
What wasn’t mentioned in the article but is something I would consider likely that the main difference with the proposed question might not be from the question itself but from extra effort of writing out a religion name rather than ticking a box - it’s a small effort but there’d be a lot of people who just want to go through the questions as fast as possible.
- Comment on Bats the size of a small dog 5 months ago:
I would have classed bogongs as small or medium size, are they really that much larger than other countries moths? If so I’d hate to see their reactions to moths which are actually large, not sure of the species but I’ve seen a few about palm sized.
- Comment on Bob Katter refuses to swear oath to King Charles 5 months ago:
You know you come off sounding like a misogynist twat when you use the language of misogynist twats right?
Could be worse, could come off sounding like Lidia Thorpe by thinking everything is racism and/or sexism.
- Submitted 5 months ago to pics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Booroomba Rocks looking north east towards Canberra 6 months ago:
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.
- Comment on Booroomba Rocks looking north east towards Canberra 6 months ago:
Yep, and you can see a bit of Civic to the right of it behind Mt Taylor.
- Submitted 6 months ago to pics@aussie.zone | 5 comments
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- Comment on How does this weed affect you? 7 months ago:
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.
- Comment on Dorinda Cox accuses Greens of racism in scathing resignation letter 7 months ago:
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 enable such a mindset during her time with them.
- Comment on A winters day from one of Canberra's classic tourist viewpoints 7 months ago:
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.
- Submitted 7 months ago to pics@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on Bit of snow up in the ranges this weekend 7 months ago:
It’s a trig point, one of many around the country which were originally used for surveying purposes. They’re basically a vestigal structure now as things like GPS have made them redundant for modern use. This design is pretty common but you do find a few variations on the theme - basically all I’ve seen have the top circles on a post but the support structure varies.
If you check out prominent hills in your area there’s a good chance that you’ll find some trig points, they were very widespread and large numbers are still around albeit often in a state of disrepair or with vegetation blocking them from view
- Comment on Bit of snow up in the ranges this weekend 7 months ago:
I’m forever mixing up Ginini and Gingera personally
You’re not the only one - for years the wikipedia page for Mt Ginini had the top of Mt Gingera as the primary picture.
Mt Franklin is indeed a good destination for a snow hunt, it’s the usual winter locked gate and if it’s closed below that (like today) it’s usually because there’s ok snow further down the hills. The walk up to the trig point gives a bit more height and a view too. Pity the old chalet burnt down as that sounds like a place that would have been interesting to check out.
- Comment on Bit of snow up in the ranges this weekend 7 months ago:
D’oh, it is indeed Coree. Ginini was where I was hoping to get to in an ideal world but they don’t leave the gate open to there in winter.
- Submitted 7 months ago to pics@aussie.zone | 8 comments
