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A magma tunnel has formed under the town of Grindavík, near the site of recent eruptions in Iceland. The town has been evacuated.

Geologists can not predict with certainty what will happen but there are three scenarios:

It quiets down and there is no eruption unless something starts again. This is pretty unlikely after everything that has already happened.

There is an eruption inside the town limits. This would be bad for the inhabitants.

There is an eruption at sea. This could have big regional and global consequences since air travel needs ash free skies. Depends on the size of the eruption.

I wonder when we see how many of the 1200 were shot from helicopters?

A new, highly publicized report from the Anti-Defamation League claims that anti-Semitic incidents across the United States have skyrocketed by more than 400%. But these ADL numbers do not add up – unless one equates opposition to the Israeli bombardment of Gaza with hatred of Jews.

The STURDY Act requires the CPSC to adopt a mandatory stability standard that uses a test weight of 60 pounds and simulates real-world use. The STURDY Act also requires clothing storage units (CSU) to pass objective, repeatable and measurable tests that simulate real-world use, taking into account the weight of small children, impact on stability resulting from placement on carpeted surfaces, drawers with items in them, multiple open drawers, and dynamic forces.

they changed it from 50 lbs to 60? American kids getting more obese lol

CPSC staff are aware of 234 fatalities resulting from CSU tip overs between January 2000 and April 2022, including 199 child fatalities. Product instability that leads to a tip-over incident can be caused or affected by an unstable dresser design, use on a sloped or unstable surface, such as carpet, not using a restraint device or using a defective tip-over restraint device, heavy objects placed on top of a dresser such as a TV, or multiple dresser drawers opened simultaneously.

Putting a heavy TV on top of my cheap IKEA furniture as my child walks around grasping at things, "this is fine"

The rule applies to CSUs that are freestanding furniture items, typically used for storing clothes. Examples of CSUs include but are not limited to chests, chests of drawers, drawer chests, armoires, chifforobes, bureaus, door chests and dressers. It does not cover shelving units, such as bookcases or entertainment furniture, office furniture, dining room furniture, jewelry armoires, underbed drawer storage units, occasional/accent furniture not intended for bedroom use, laundry storage/sorting units, or built-in units intended to be permanently attached to the building.

"jewelry armoires” bourgeois children dying like they’re in an Edgar Allan Poe horror story

Imagine US troops fighting in this country.

A heat wave passing over the Middle East sent temperatures skyrocketing to extreme levels in Iran over the weekend — so high that one city almost broke a world record.

The heat index in Bandar Mahshahr, a city of over 100,000 atop the Persian Gulf, reached an astonishing 164 degrees (73 Celsius) on Friday afternoon , according the Weather Channel. The heat index is also known as the “feels-like” temperature, which combines air temperature with relative humidity, which soars during the summer due the city’s proximity to water.

In Iraq, air temperatures continued to exceed 120 degrees (49 Celcius) for the eighth day in a row on Sunday, according to the Weather Channel. The heat had become so scorching on Thursday that the Iraqi government mandated a four-day holiday.

The highest-known heat index — 178 degrees (81 Celcius) — was recorded in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, on July 8, 2003.

Half a mil to put their thumbs up their asses instead of just literally giving that money directly as reparations

Edit: I want to clarify, I fully support reparations, I'm just extremely frustrated knowing that, under liberal/bourgeoisie democracy, these types of efforts tend to get bogged down with means testing, and sometimes outright turn into thinly-veiled handouts to private corporations. All while the police budget is still increasing YOY.

That said, Evanston (city on Chicago's northern border) did actually manage to distribute "...$25,000 in no-strings-attached direct cash payments for those eligible. Black residents who lived in Evanston during a 50-year period of discriminatory zoning laws and their direct descendants receive priority for eligibility." So I don't want to encourage further reactionary criticisms such as mine towards this specific subcommittee if they are able to achieve at least some form of direct payments similar to Evanston's program.

You are dishonorable. Your panda privileges have been revoked.

I don't even know what to say