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The U.S. just sold its helium stockpile. Here’s why the medical world is worried. (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 5 months ago by WayeeCool@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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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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[-] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 45 points 5 months ago

This shit is a crime against the people and in a civilized country, these fuckers would be sent to a gulag for 20 years, then the people would seize the helium back.

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

What gets me is the fact that sell-offs like this are just accepted, but anytime it goes the other way and something is nationalised, it's a huge overreach because we didn't vote on it or whatever