The Off Topic Topic

[Habbaku]

  Fuck no, I'm not that smart. I'm just an analyst.

[PDH]

Ask for analyst.

[Maladict]

My workplace called that Accumulated time. It's a nice way to avoid paying Overtime.

I currently have 22.5 hours of it. I had more but I took spring break off using that.

Some of my co-workers have hundreds of hours accumulated.

My previous employer had Accumulated time, it was awesome.
I was racking up the overtime during a very busy period, and after a while I could take a day off every week for almost an entire year.
Fortunately I found a new job at that point, I was dreading having to go back to full time employment.

[Josquius]

Any one else with an android suddenly stopped working?
Caused quite a panic with me as couldn't access some important apps. Seemed by phone was borked.
But no. Just needed to uninstall all updates on something called Web view. Google has caused a disaster

[Syt]

This image of Vice Chancellor Kogler (Greens) and Chancellor Kurz (Conservatives) was used this weekend to illustrate the state of the coalition.

[The Larch]

Any one else with an android suddenly stopped working?
Caused quite a panic with me as couldn't access some important apps. Seemed by phone was borked.
But no. Just needed to uninstall all updates on something called Web view. Google has caused a disaster

Yeah, I had ton of issues last night with my tablet, most apps wouldn't work at all, they'd crash to desktop as soon as they got started. This morning after updating everything it seems to be working fine now.

[Zanza]

This image of Vice Chancellor Kogler (Greens) and Chancellor Kurz (Conservatives) was used this weekend to illustrate the state of the coalition.

Kurz looks like he is pissing on the flag.

[Legbiter]

Here the eruption is ongoing but it's very small and contained in a valley. The earthquakes have completely died down since the magma intrusion has found an outlet. At it's current rate the volcano can spend weeks filling up the various small valleys surrounding it, so there's no imminent danger to people or infrastructure. The only danger is to curious onlookers wanting to observe the volcano, volcanic gasses are fairly strong around the lava field and the heavier ones can settle into dells and dips in the landscape so best to observe it upwind from a hill.

[Sheilbh]

That is very cool

[Legbiter]

Yeah it is. The pictures don't quite capture what it's like to see an eruption up close and personal, especially the low vibrations you feel under your feet. You become very small in the grand scheme of things. I'll hike there next weekend if it's still ongoing, weather permitting.

[The Larch]

That must feel absolutely otherwordly. I've only been once close to an active volcano (the Etna, on a peaceful period) and the area affected by it just feels like a completely different planet at times. The vapours coming from the ground in places, the weird rock formations, the visible effects of past eruptions... to be present during such an active episode must be quite spectacular.

[Legbiter]

That must feel absolutely otherwordly. I've only been once close to an active volcano (the Etna, on a peaceful period) and the area affected by it just feels like a completely different planet at times. The vapours coming from the ground in places, the weird rock formations, the visible effects of past eruptions... to be present during such an active episode must be quite spectacular.

Yeah exactly.

I saw up close the "small" eruption that immediately preceded the big Eyjafjallajökull one 2010. Hekla in 2000 I was in the summer cottage walking the road after dark when the bright red glow suddenly appeared in the distance. Saw the aftermath of the enormous 2014 Holuhraun eruption with my boys and grandfather, the whole black lava field was still steaming almost a year later.

[Sheilbh]

Things that sound really exciting and interesting but - even in a simplified newspaper form are way above my head
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/23/large-hadron-collider-scientists-particle-physics

[Agelastus]

Mordor!

Or, at least, that was probably the first reaction in my head from this image.

[Admiral Yi]

heh

Your post made me think Obi Wan and Darth Vader.