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[Jacob]

Yikes.

Are those private residences in the picture?

And are the buildings immediately adjacent essentially unaffected and can be moved into as soon as the eruption subsides, or are there reasons why that's not the case?

[Legbiter]

Yikes.

Are those private residences in the picture?

Yeah these are standard homes.

And are the buildings immediately adjacent essentially unaffected and can be moved into as soon as the eruption subsides, or are there reasons why that's not the case?

Yeah they should be fine. This eruption is thankfully rapidly winding down but it's very likely not the last one. This is the fifth eruption in less than 3 years now and every one is worse than the last for the poor people of Grindavík. These eruptive episodes can last decades as the underlying volcanism has to infill the last thousand years of accumulated continental drift on the Reykjanes peninsula. The old lava field the town is built on is about 2000 years old.

[Josquius]

So this is near you?

[Legbiter]

So this is near you?

No I live in Reykjavík but if I take the highway I'm there in 40 minutes. Relatively speaking I'm not terribly far away and sometimes see the glow from the lava on dark nights.

[Grey Fox]

That's near.

[Sheilbh]

Actually intrigued to see this letter - and apparently the entire article the Mirror did exploring the idea

James Vaughan
@EquusontheBuses
Just read a 1944 letter to the Daily Mirror arguing that there should be a post-war world government run by 6 people. Gandhi, Montgomery, Chiang Kai-Shek, Einstein, a random housewife, and Stalin.

[Josquius]

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1: Poland and Finland say fuck stereotypes.
2: Bulgaria and Romania say "Yeah, we love some slavic and latin stereotypes"

[Razgovory]

Bleh, I fell down the icy steps at my apartment.  The street is also covered in ice and I slid through a stop.

[HVC]

I saw that on a cartoon once. Hilarity ensued.

[Razgovory]

There was no laughter, just me shouting fuck.  Also I landed on my keys hit the car alarm button.

[grumbler]

Had a colonoscope today.  Fun stuff.  Actually, the worst part of it was (twice) gagging down the awful chemical shit that "cleared the pipes," so to speak.  A vile liquid.

[The Brain]

What what?

[viper37]

[garbon]

So they used chatGPT?

[DGuller]

It's not witty if your target is not in position to return the favor, it's just abusive.  Biting wit is only funny when the recipient can bite back.