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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[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 77 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Gonna laugh when in a few years the government of another nation ends up owning it.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/03/1114964240/new-battery-technology-china-vanadium

A bunch of scrappy engineers made a next generation battery and sold the technology to the US government

The government never bothered to manufacture anything. Instead they sold everything to China and now they’re already releasing public versions of the batteries. Now the US doesn’t have any knowledge on the batteries or even the factories to build them

[–] tripartitegraph@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the US doesn’t have any knowledge on the batteries or even the factories to build them

hilariously based

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The story is a trip

Every dumb and evil thing in amerikkka can ultimately be traced back to capitalist greed

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Every dumb and evil thing in ~~amerikkka~~ the whole world can ultimately be traced back to capitalist greed

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago

xigma-male trade-offer

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago

Many such cases xi-cooking