Readit NewsAre there volcano eruption chasers in Iceland like there are tornado chasers in the US? Seems like it would be a rather intermittent but exciting hobby since it's easier to get quite a bit closer.
The Icelandic Civil Defense is also awesome. They have some guidelines for gas heater use during eruptions that includes: Remember other heating options, such as cuddling under blankets, wearing the wool socks gifted to us at Christmas, and closing curtains over windows.
I lived in Iceland in 2010, when Eyjafjallajökull erupted and stopped most of the air-traffic in Europe. I was fortunate enough to go with some friends (in jeeps with very large tires, to traverse a snow-covered glacier) to see the eruption up very close. We were about 200m from the erupting lava. Most amazing nature-experience of my life - by a mile.
Pic from that day: https://imgur.com/a/KbDyEuQ
Pressing the power button 5 times dials the emergency service number by default, so I've almost called emergency services a few times already. I usually manage to cancel it before it dials, but wow.
When I click the power button 5x, a screen appears with:
- A large circle in the middle of the screen, which I have to press and hold for 3 seconds to initiate the call.
- A slider to cancel the screen entirely
So just hitting the powerbutton 5x does not actually make the call on Pixel 7a, just makes it easier.
Germany and Russia.
The army of USSR just took a field-trip to Poland to protect Soviet minorities!
They then rounded up about 22,000 Polish military officers, took them to the Katyn Forest outside of Smolensk for a lovely picnic - as a show of good will.
How these thousands of Polish officers ended up in mass graves with bullet holes in the back of their heads remains a mystery.
This article links to some NATO official "admitting" this was the case, when actually it seems to be someone pointing out how stupid a reason this is in a second language i.e. "you don't like NATO on your border so you invade a neighbor, which gives all your other neighbors a good reason to join NATO, that's dumb".
But apparently that's the best evidence he has that he was right alone along and it's all NATO's fault.
Norway - down to 20% of pre-2022: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-forces-near-nor...
Finland "border almost undefended"- : https://www.ft.com/content/f7587dc3-3518-4084-b68a-1dd00ab83...
It was never about fear of NATO. It was about expanding the empire - and feeding a autocratic dictatorship that needs a common enemy and distract from the absurdity of having the maybe the country richest in the world in natural resources - and yet a large portion of the population doesn't have indoor plumbing, while an oligarch-elite murders opposition and flies helicopter to get to their super-yacht...