The Off Topic Topic

[Tamas]

must be good for your heating bills though.

[Legbiter]

A bit too close for comfort.

Yeah.

Bad news is a small fissure just opened up closer to town which is inside the area that had been walled off by massive berms. Looking pretty bad right now as you can see.

[Syt]

Today I learned that the United Farm Workers of America use an interesting flag for their organization:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Farm_Workers

I thought that kind of design (red, white circle, black emblem) fell out of favor ca. 1945.

[Maladict]

A bit too close for comfort.

Yeah.

Bad news is a small fissure just opened up closer to town which is inside the area that had been walled off by massive berms. Looking pretty bad right now as you can see.

Looks like some buildings are already on fire.

[Josquius]

Today I learned that the United Farm Workers of America use an interesting flag for their organization:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Faorkers

I thought that kind of design (red, white circle, black emblem) fell out of favor ca. 1945.

Huh. Yeah that is weird.
It's a striking choice of colours so wouldn't surprise me to see others pre nazis doing it but after..... Dude.

[celedhring]

From the wikipedia article:

"At the mortuary, UFW supporters unfurled their union flag—and then the trouble began. The bold red flag with its black Aztec eagle in a white circle had long been controversial in the Central Valley. During the 1960s grape strike, the growers used to call it "Chavez's Trotsky flag." Even UFW members were initially unnerved by the powerful image. When the flag was first displayed to the fledging union membership in 1962, some workers complained that it looked like a Communist flag, others that it resembled a Nazi banner. "It's what you want to see in it," Chavez told them, "what you're conditioned to. To me it looks like a strong, beautiful sign of hope."

[Legbiter]

Looks like some buildings are already on fire.

Yeah we have 2 disjointed fissures, the lava flow from the bigger one was successfully diverted away from the town by the berm defenses. The problem is the much smaller one that opened up right on the outskirts.

[Admiral Yi]

Do people buy lava insurance?

[HVC]

Do people buy lava insurance?

I'm assuming it falls under act of god. Unless the state pays you out.

[Admiral Yi]

I'm assuming it falls under act of god. Unless the state pays you out.

20 quatloos says it's baked into a standard policy or it's a common rider.

[HVC]

I'm assuming it falls under act of god. Unless the state pays you out.

20 quatloos says it's baked into a standard policy or it's a common rider.

https://island.is/en/o/nti/insurance-coverage#

NTÍ will make good direct losses caused by:

volcanic eruption
earthquake
landslide
avalanche
water flooding

Damn socialist Iceland, that shit would never fly in the states

[DGuller]

It kind of does, flood insurance is almost exclusively sold by the federal government.

[Josquius]

Do people buy lava insurance?

I'm assuming it falls under act of god. Unless the state pays you out.

Acts of Loki are not covered. Other jobs are handled under standard policies.

[Tonitrus]

Do people buy lava insurance?

I'm assuming it falls under act of god. Unless the state pays you out.

My lawsuit against the insurance company..."magma from beneath the surface would be an act of the Devil, not God.  Now pay my claim".

[Legbiter]

20 quatloos says it's baked into a standard policy

Yes.



Good news is that the smaller fissure causing the above has stopped erupting.