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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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[-] tripartitegraph@hexbear.net 42 points 5 months ago

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 5 months ago

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 5 months ago

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

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