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The U.S. just sold its helium stockpile. Here’s why the medical world is worried. (www.nbcnews.com)
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Privatizing the US national helium reserve. Gonna laugh when in a few years the government of another nation ends up owning it. Helium is dwindling finite resource that key technological infrastructure relies upon.

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[-] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 99 points 5 months ago

Just tearing the copper wires out of the walls without a shred of irony at this point.

[-] davel@hexbear.net 75 points 5 months ago

Nobody left to neocolonize but ourselves I guess.

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 56 points 5 months ago

someone once said that fascism is when the colonial methods of oppression are brought home to the imperial core

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