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Janine Krippner, a volcanologist at Concord University, is unequivocal in her assessment.She doesn't think it's gonna blow any minute now but, nonetheless, it's a hazard and shit.
“Rainier is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world,” she says. “It’s a huge concern.”
To make the case, Krippner points to Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz volcano...In that event, neither lava nor pyroclastic flows of hot gas and ash were the killer elements. Instead, the paroxysm quickly melted the volcano’s summit glaciers, and fresh floodwaters rapidly entrained and mobilized the loose sediment on the volcano’s flanks. (source)Lahars, AKA volcanic mudflow happens. The consistency ranges from muddy, rubbley water to fast running thick wet cement, (depending on the water to debris ratio).
23,000 people died in that Colombian Lahar action.
Rainer is north of where I’ll be but, ya know, close enough. I am SO psyched!
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“The security screening process that is done for all gifts was done for the soccer ball,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in an email. “We are not going to comment further on security procedures.” The White House declined to say whether any modifications to the ball had been identified or where the ball would be kept going forward. (source)Putin fanboy and Dimwit in Chief doubtless never let the treasure outta his hands to be checked. I bet he carries it, his new fave toy from his big Man Crush, into Intelligence Briefings where he's busy banging on about FAKE NEWS and tweeting his latest butthurts.
Pay attention? Take risks seriously? Sorry, not in his repertoire.
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Holy Martian Chronicles, Batman!An Italian team of scientists says it has strong evidence of a subsurface lake of liquid water on Mars. It's a discovery that adds to the speculation that there could once have been life on Mars — and raises the possibility that it might be there still today, since liquid water is an essential ingredient for life. (source)~~~
Apparently Clueless First Daughter’s homely schmatta, knock off shoe and handbag company’s going six feet under.
Trump herself insists that the only reason the company is folding is that she won’t be returning to it, as she’s too dedicated to her (unpaid) job in her father’s administration.Sure babe. It's got fuckall to do with the fact that your sales are in the toilet. Right?
This is a bizarre explanation. People who want to disengage from companies that are working well tend to hire someone else to run them — something Trump in theory already did, if you buy the notion that she divested herself from the business — or they sell them to another company for yet more profit. They don’t, as a matter of course, build a well-functioning institution and suddenly decide to murder it in cold blood, putting their ostensibly successful employees out of jobs and forfeiting future earnings on a whim. (source)
Boycotts work. Most of us can’t eschew all the companies on this list all the time BUT we can give it a good try. I no longer buy New Balance sneaks. My winter gear no longer has L.L. Bean labels.
I’m confused though. Amazon’s on the list but NOT for their sweatshop warehouse working conditions or their scorched-earth capitalism modus operandi. They’re on there for distributing NRATV, advertising on Breitbart, selling Trump gear and facial recog software to the border patrol plus something about Infowars.
Yeah but, but, BUT hasn’t Prezident Obscenity ALSO come out against Amazon? Possibly this is because 54 year old CEO Jeff Bezos, who also owns Blue Origin, the Washington Post and part of Google is younger, way more richer and is most def NOT a Trumpanzee.
So, do I buy from Amazon because, ya know, the enemy of my enemy and shit OR do I boycott because of all the good reasons to shop elsewhere.
I'm so confused.
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