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1. kravietz 🦇 (kravietz@agora.echelon.pl)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 23:31:12 JST kravietz 🦇

   #Russia justification for the war in #Ukraine number 315 is a fantastic mix of #geopolitics conspiracies involving volcanoes, and voiced not by a low-rank propagandist but by a top official from Putin’s administration:

   The safest place on Earth, should the US dormant volcano Yellowstone erupt, would be Eastern Europe and Siberia. This is precisely why the West is keen to get hold of Heartland. Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said this in an interview with Izvestiya. “If it (Yellowstone volcano. - Ed.) wakes up, it will be an unprecedented catastrophe. It is capable of eruptions thousands of times greater than known to mankind. Observations show that the volcano is becoming more active as the years go by, with magma reaching the surface at a rapid rate. The number of earthquakes in the surrounding caldera is also increasing, reaching two thousand per year,” said Patrushev.

   Source in Russian: https://web.archive.org/web/20230503104935/https://iz.ru/1507429/2023-05-03/nikolai-patrushev-nazval-samoe-bezopasnoe-mesto-na-zemle

   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 23:31:10 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     @m0xee @kravietz man if yellow stone blows up we're all fucked though :ablobweary:
   • m0xEE (m0xee@social.librem.one)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 23:31:11 JST m0xEE

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     @kravietz Most of them are mentally unwell, in a medical sense. I bet Putin shares similar beliefs, he just keeps his mouth shut. What he says in public is reviewed by competent people so very little of it slips through, but who knows what he has told Macron on the phone.
     This one — on the contrary, speaks out quite often and when he does, it's something like that. If he was into sci-fi, not those spy novels, I think we could hear something even more exquisite from him.

   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 23:49:52 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     @m0xee @kravietz I'm not saying it's why we care about Ukraine, I'm just saying if it explodes there is little anyone can do within range to protect themselves. No conspiracy. We just hope it doesn't happen. Even an "early warning" would be of little use to most people considering the potential size of the eruption.
   • m0xEE (m0xee@social.librem.one)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 23:49:53 JST m0xEE

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     Well, this hold for every other conspiracy. If NWO decides to get rid of us, we're doomed too. And I might even believe that the concern is genuine if it didn't come out of the mouth of this guy.
     You might not believe me, but a lot of FSB officers, both ex and acting, are also into esoteric stuff. I know from a friend, who was into these circles. So if you know tarot and all that and are acquainted with the right people, you might not need your office job anymore.
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   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 00:18:21 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     @m0xee @kravietz ah yeah there are coal mines over here that are on fire for decades too. Not sure they were lit intentionally though.
     
     I think volcano activity is increasing globally. A few years ago I remember reading about helium content of the sea water around Antarctica being an indicator. I have heard it said there may be a connection between solar activity and volcanic activity.
     
     At the end of the day you are absolutely right though. If large dormant volcanoes erupt it's going to be catastrophic, but there is next to nothing you can do to avoid it so I don't see much point in getting overly concerned.
   • m0xEE (m0xee@social.librem.one)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 00:18:22 JST m0xEE

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     @thatguyoverthere I agree, this would seriously fuck things up, but same is true for every other major dormant volcano suddenly awakening. Are odds really high? When I read about it, it didn't seem likely to me, more like a scary story type of thing.
     TBH this looks way scarier as it's closer to me 😅
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darvaza_gas_crater
     Soviet engineers came up with a bright idea of setting that thing on fire and it's been burning for decades ever since. Like 24/7, no one managed to extinguish it.
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   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 00:22:27 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     @m0xee @kravietz https://www.history.com/news/mine-fire-burning-more-50-years-ghost-town one such mine
   • m0xEE (m0xee@social.librem.one)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 01:00:18 JST m0xEE

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     @thatguyoverthere Burning coal is pretty bad too, but gas looks absolutely scary to me. I might be making things up, but imagine there is a bigger deposit beneath it and that it eventually burns through and caves in. The combustion might be catastrophic.
     Deepwater Horizon was bad enough, but here there is no pipe to sever, this thing is 60 meter in diameter.
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   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 01:01:00 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     @m0xee @kravietz you might also encourage the fire to seek oxygen through fissures and stuff if you starve off the most readily available source.
   • m0xEE (m0xee@social.librem.one)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 01:01:01 JST m0xEE

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     I think it's theoretically possible to cover it with a dome to prevent oxygen intake so the fires die out, but you can't build one in place because of high temperatures. The material also has to be sturdy enough so it doesn't melt, it might be so costly that no one cares enough to do it.
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   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 01:02:15 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     @m0xee @kravietz yeah the towns around the mines end up completely abandoned which sucks, but gas probably has a bigger chance of actually exploding if it finds enough air.
   • Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 02:49:06 JST Jolly Rancher

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     Both the Pennsylvania coal mine fire and the Turkmen gas field are small, compared to an average volcano. Eruption of a volcano under the coal mine or gas field would simply blow them away at once, instead of burning for years and decades.
     And of course, Yellowstone is a much larger than average volcano.
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   • kravietz 🦇 (kravietz@agora.echelon.pl)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 02:49:09 JST kravietz 🦇

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     Media like to spin volcano stories but geology records events in thousands to millions of years. Statistically you can't exclude chances of Yellowstone — or Elbrus for that matter — going off in our lifetime, which makes a good clickbait :) And Elbrus going off would obliterate most of Southern Russia and Caucasus, which is why when I was hearing these stories for the last 20 years there :)
     
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