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Hope there's an option to sign Jeffcott, I really rate him.

If you take a life, what are you? Alright, killers then. I am not judging by using those words, it is what it is. Killing in the name of some power that be is not less of a killing. I understand men were conscripted, forced to bear arms and I find that criminal, the state acting as if human beings are their property and leaving them with scars that won't heal and a conscious that accuses.

These cracks seem to be mostly shallow. The magma pushing below causing the surface crust to crack would be my uneducated guess. They wouldn't be filling them in otherwise I should think.

My opinion War is all bloody murder, there can be no denying that. There is no good war. You may find it offensive, but a soldier in WWII, Korea or Vietnam who fires his weapon to snuff out the life of another human being is a murderer. There is a reason why so many veterans who have been in the *hit don't want to talk about it, they know what war made of them and feel shame for it. Suicides are common with veterans, war messes up a person because it is unnatural, it delivers a lasting trauma to any decent person drawn into it. The same goes for both sides of this war, it is all dehumanizing bloody murder, with the killers who survive never able to recover from the horrors they saw and acted in. Justifying mass killings on the grounds of some ends won't fly either, it is what it is, a crime from start to finish.

Some better news. Because the magma did not make it to the surface under Grindavík, it has now cooled considerably, meaning that an eruption coming up there is an increasingly unlikely outcome. The big cracks are being filled in, but lots of smaller one's are being discovered all over town. Companies are restarting operations, a step at a time, water pipes need digging up and repairing, electric connections too, internet and so forth. Quakes come in swarms now, but not under the town, magma is doing something nobody understands really. Cracks have appeared all over the peninsula and authorities warn folks to be careful when walking. The top of the mountain Keilir has moved significantly, this is not over whatever it is, but at least some good news for Grindavík now.

The internet is conscious?

Warne is under considerable pressure from fans to deliver promotion this season. I wish he would utilize the academy players more, but also understand his reluctance to do that. Would it have been wiser to not expect promotion and use the season to develop the younger players to come back much stronger next season, or is it reasonable to expect both?

Not a two state solution, a final solution. All perfectly legal, I am sure.

Yeah, sorry mod, my only excuse is a high fever Fascinating discussion, do carry on

We have tried various types of prefabricated houses, most of them do not suit the environment. The weather here is intense at times, hurricane force winds. There are houses of the sort that would work, but builders make money building from concrete or wood structure from bottom up, I suspect that may be the main reason.

3.800 at last count, many of those are recent immigrants. Most of the Icelanders have relatives who can house them at least on a temporary basis, but not so for many of the immigrants. It's a bad situation. Some of these people just recently bought a house there, I cannot fathom what they were thinking. Yes indeed, the seemingly endless waiting and uncertainty is nerve wracking for so many, for all of us really. This plays like a slow motion disaster film. This land is not easy on it's inhabitants, but that has made us resilient.

The mayor of Grindavík said that in the best case scenario people could move back into their homes in 6-9 months. The infrastructure is in tatters, many houses will have be demolished. Numerous residents owe housing loans on now damaged and abandoned houses. The banks were asked to freeze the payments for a few months and the interest rates, they accepted the former but said no to the latter, exclaiming that there is nothing they can do. People are very angry over this, but it is clear what the banks are trying to do, wait it out until the state takes over all obligations. It is now considered to be primarily plate movements at work on the peninsula this time. Iceland sits half on the American plate and half on the Eurasian plate and is being torn asunder slowly, but now apparently much more quickly. If there will be an eruption, it will probably not be a powerful one and fizzle out quite soon.

We talk of the planets in our solar system as unclaimed property for us to plant a flag on. That may not be so, even our moon may be another's property, if indication of it being an artificial satellite prove correct. We can only guess at how life began on Earth, but there I would certainly draw a line and claim humanity has at least squatters rights on that turf, but that's about it. We really are an egocentric species and may be in for a rude awakening.

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It is 1%, not 10, but everyone knows everyone here, so close enough heh

Would walking around be a better option?

A video in English of a reporter tagging along with his parents to their house in Grindavík for a quick grab and go. The gas emissions that forced evacuation today indicate that the depth to the magma is about 4-500 meters.

I am impressed with how quickly the academy is taking shape again. Some quality work being done there, for sure.

With every passing day the threat of eruption subsides, the magma sitting in huge pools under the surface slowly cools. Grindavík is built on lava that flowed as magma into the sea 2000 years ago, the fault line runs straight through the town, perhaps should never have been built up originally. Yes, you are right, it is the slow destruction that is the hard thing to deal with. Land is still sinking in Grindavík and today while people were gathering some things from their homes an alarm sounded off to evacuate the town immediately. Gas had been measured at dangerous levels suddenly. Close to 10% of Icelanders live there and with extended family and friends, this calamity touches every family in Iceland. We will get through this together and worse if need be. Thank you Comrade 86, your words of support are appreciated.

The town is all torn up, most houses damaged, many uninhabitable, ground cables and pipes are history and so forth. Even if the quakes and possible eventual eruption move from this area, it can still swing back and in coming seasons return to cause havoc. Nobody is moving back to Grindavík any time soon, am afraid.

Some pictures and videos from today. The steam you see is from the burst hot water pipes https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2023/11/13/myndskeid_synir_sprungu_i_gegnum_i_grindavik/ Some people were allowed to quickly gather some belongings today under supervision of emergency volunteers. Most locals have not been allowed in and might never be. Talk of raising emergency housing for thousands of displaced people like we did after the Heimaey eruption. No eruption yet and quakes move deeper again, but this is already bad. https://www.visir.is/g/20232488576d And one from RUV in English https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2023-11-13-skemmdir-i-grindavik-minna-a-christchurch-396911