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KazooOnExhaustPipe t1_iy7glmn wrote

In Germany, the public weather forecast service had to start charging people to use their app because a parasite company sued them to stop them from providing a public service for free, as they considered that to be predatory of their parasitic business model, which was overtaking the same public weather forecast data and slapping some ads on it. Also that sentence is way too long now.

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newaccountzuerich t1_iy7b7iz wrote

But, that's Mauna Loa in a nutshell. The lava coming up is relatively gas-free so doesn't do the explosive expansion when it gets to the surface. ("Diet Coke and Mentos" is a surprisingly accurate metaphor/description for why volcanos explosively erupt).

Most previous Mauna Loa eruptions have just been flowing lava without a huge amount of ash release (comparitively), so the damage done by the eruption is much more localised than e.g. Mt St Helens for similar amounts of emitted lava.

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