Infoseepage

Infoseepage, 5 days ago

@w7voa They almost certainly died like most of the other hostages died, when some piece of US or German supplied ordinance blew the building or tunnel they were in to bits along with their captors. Israel has not prioritized hostage rescue in any way. They've been operating on the basis of blowing everything to pieces and keep pounding the rubble until the rubble stops protesting. One has only to look at the images of cities reduced to skeletal rubble to understand that at a gut level.

#gaza

Infoseepage, 6 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

@QasimRashid Less than half my city's police budget would pay for market rate studio apartments for every homeless person in the area.

The economic cost of Iraq and Afghanistan was something like 4-6 trillion dollars. At current pricing that amount of money could have put a battery backed solar array in every home in the US.

Spending money on police and military means not spending money elsewhere.

We could have bought ourselves an end to homelessness and energy independence.

Infoseepage, 10 days ago

Looks like the beginning of the eruption started about 2h45m ago and was presages by a swarm of 2-300 tremors. Similar pattern to prior eruptions with a large rift opening up and rapidly expanding in size. Lot of magma pressure behind this at the start and it is shooting magma high into the air. Lots of volcanic gassing.

#iceland #eruption #volcano #magma

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Infoseepage, 10 days ago

Icelandic Met is reporting that the fissure is ~3.4 km in length. Magma reservoir estimated at 18-20 million cubic meters of the hot stuff, which makes this either the biggest or second biggest reservoir at start of eruption. Extremely hihg rate of flaw with several large lava rivers flowing away from the rift zone.

The Blue Lagoon has been evacuated.

#iceland #eruption #magma #volcano

Infoseepage, 10 days ago

This is what the ground deformation data looked like from space immediately prior to the eruption, with over a quarter meter of bulge in the central area. As I said yesterday, the land was positively pregnant and ready to pop.

#iceland #eruption #volcano #magma

Infoseepage, 10 days ago

The magma has at some point in the last few hours already cut Grindavik off from Grindavíkurvegur, the north/south major road into the town. The town's power supply has been cut as well and there are water pipes under all this as well.

That the defenses and utilities are already being challenged is not good for the future of Grindavik.

Picture is a video still from Ruv.is

They've got a live blog started here:

https://www.ruv.is/english/2024-05-29-eruption-on-reykjanes-peninsula-413853

#iceland #volcano #eruption #magma #lava

Infoseepage, 10 days ago

Magma is positively gushing out of the splatter cone which was the primary active long running vent for the last eruption. Given it's known size, some of these lava plumes are maybe 120-150 meters high!

#iceland #eruption #volcano #magma

Infoseepage, 10 days ago

Oooh, a lot more lava is right up against Grindavik's defenses already than I thought. Here is a pic from one of the time-lapse cams which better cover the town.

#iceland #eruption #volcano #magma

Infoseepage, 10 days ago

Here is the road getting over-run in two stills. Apparently 3 people have refused to evacuate the town. No idea how long the coastal road to the east or west will last, but the main evacuation route is gone.

#iceland #eruption #volcano #magma

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Infoseepage, 10 days ago

Here is a cam pointed right at Grindavik from Hagafell hill with a still before the magma reached the immediate area and one from ten minutes ago.

#iceland #eruption #volcano #magma

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Infoseepage, 11 days ago

This is your periodic reminder that the Israeli port of Ashdod lies just to the North of Gaza. Also, World Central Kitchen has a functional jetty which they used twice to deliver barges of aid at the same place where the US is doing their JLOTS. Maybe just switch to using the jetty! You know...the stationary structure which doesn't need anchor cables and which isn't subject to being driven off by wind and waves?

#gaza

Infoseepage, 11 days ago

As usual, the "What's is Going on With Shipping?" channel has informed ongoing coverage of the JLOTS debacle (which this channel rightly said was going to be a debacle for a long time).

He says this as someone with decades of experience as a merchant mariner and one who has participated in these sorts of JLOTS exercises.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzzVyuPnMHk

#gaza

Infoseepage, 11 days ago

@indivisibleteam You're far too generous with Biden. In his interview right after the the SOTU his first reaction was to say that he'd never cut off weapons to Israel and he hasn't. Everything else in that statement is him realizing how his first remarks would play and trying to qualify them for public consumption. When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

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Infoseepage, 12 days ago

@Miro_Collas @palestine I wonder to what extent western governments are supporting and letting Israel get away with this shit because Israeli intelligence has dirt on politicians or has documentation of past international dealings and actions by those governments which the public would find unsavory. To what extent is international politics now being conducted by who has the best blackmail material?

Infoseepage, 13 days ago

@human3500 @kdnyhan There are bacteria and viruses which are known to survive in 72c pasteurized milk. That level is basically chosen to reduce levels of some of the more common and worrisome bacterial pathogens to the point where the milk is safe to drink and the milk has a reasonable sellable a the grocery store lifespan. The main reason milk goes bad even if you leave it sealed in your refrigerator is the incompleteness of the pasteurization process.

Infoseepage, 13 days ago

@human3500 @kdnyhan The bacteria not killed in 72c pasteurization replicate in the jug and sour the milk.

There is a higher level of pasteurization called UHT where the milk is heated to typically 132 degrees C under pressure and held for typically 2 or 3 seconds. This does a much better job of killing pathogens. So much so that UHT milk (typically sold in Tetra Pak cartons) can be stored at room temperature for six months to a year prior to opening and use.

Infoseepage, 13 days ago

@human3500 @kdnyhan Once you actually open UHT milk, you have to refrigerate it, of course, because you've introduced bacteria into it from the air. I've drank UHT milk commonly while living in the Cook Islands and on Maui. Milk goes bad fast in the heat of Polynesia.

I've drank nothing but UHT since the announcement of H5N1 is cow milk and don't plan on going back to normal milk.

Infoseepage, 13 days ago

@human3500 @kdnyhan Not leastly because pasteurization failures occur commonly in US agriculture. Google "Pasteurization failure leads to recall" or check out the FDA recall site. These failures in pasteurization equipment and processes are OFTEN not caught for 2-3 months where they are caught at all. People wind up drinking unpasteurized or underpasteurized milk unintentionally without them knowing it.

Infoseepage, 13 days ago

@human3500 @kdnyhan The widespread and frequent occurrence of such failures in US agriculture should IMO give the public little confidence that the milk supply is safe absent of a systematic government effort to wipe this pathogen out in US dairy herds. They are not making such an effort.

Oh, btw, the last pasteurization failure leading to a recall was this month:

https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/05/improper-pasteurization-spurs-milk-recall/

Infoseepage, 13 days ago

@human3500 @kdnyhan Here is the paper from the University of Wisconsin researchers published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2405495

I'd like more independent confirmation of pasteurization effectiveness and the public should be demanding it.

#h5n1