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Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by pelotron »

hinkley wrote: post #128
spiderfarmer wrote: post #43

Lindsay Graham has an easy solution to this unnecessary conflict: send your sons and daughters. This whole administration is such a fiasco.

Lindsey Graham is a lying sack of shit. And I say that with his permission, since he’s on camera asking to be called out if he did exactly what they did with the Supreme Court not four years later.

Thank deities someone else remembers this.

Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by icwtyjj »

emsign wrote: post #51
trollbridge wrote: post #7

Aren’t there huge stockpiles of helium in the US? I can buy party sized tanks at Target or big tanks at the usual places like welding supply places.

Balloon gas is ~20% oxygen, so your kids don't go unconscious while doing the funny voices.

https://www.bocgases.ie/files/balloon_grade_helium_factsheet... says 95% helium and 1% oxygen while https://dan.org/alert-diver/article/helium-gas-purity-what-i... says 97.5% helium but very unlikely for it to be as low as 80%

Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by estimator7292 »

qwertox wrote: post #136
emsign wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Balloon gas is ~20% oxygen, so your kids don't go unconscious while doing the funny voices.

This is very likely not true.

Would you like to offer a rebuttal more well reasoned and thought out than "nuh-uh"?

You have the entire collected knowledge of mankind at your fingertips. You could do 30 seconds of research and find an answer better than "I don't think that sounds right".

Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by rootusrootus »

coreyh14444 wrote: post #16

Remember all the e/acc people telling us to vote for Trump? Some mea-culpas are in order.

We live in the dumbest possible timeline. As someone who came of age in the late 80s and was lucky enough to fully experience the 90s and 2000s ... what we have done in the last 20 years makes me sad. I never saw this coming. I admit that I maintained my delusion even though I was in OKC in 1995. Should have been a wake-up call.

Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

estimator7292 wrote: post #143
qwertox wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is very likely not true.

Would you like to offer a rebuttal more well reasoned and thought out than "nuh-uh"? You have the entire collected knowledge of mankind at your fingertips. You could do 30 seconds of research and find an answer better than "I don't think that sounds right".

> You could do 30 seconds of research

So could you, right?

Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by rootusrootus »

lpcvoid wrote: post #18
coreyh14444 wrote: post #16

Remember all the e/acc people telling us to vote for Trump? Some mea-culpas are in order.

The kind of people who voted for trump would never admit they made a mistake. They double down on stupidity instead.

For better or worse, Donald Trump has absolutely earned his place in the history books. There will be so many lessons from this era, though I think it is very much open to debate what form those lessons will take and which ones will be the most consequential.

Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by bryan0 »

emsign wrote: post #51
trollbridge wrote: post #7

Aren’t there huge stockpiles of helium in the US? I can buy party sized tanks at Target or big tanks at the usual places like welding supply places.

Balloon gas is ~20% oxygen, so your kids don't go unconscious while doing the funny voices.

source? the value I found is 97.5%+ helium for party balloons: https://www.grecogas.com/learn-our-industry/your-complete-gu...

Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by rootusrootus »

karmakurtisaani wrote: post #104
coreyh14444 wrote: post #16

Remember all the e/acc people telling us to vote for Trump? Some mea-culpas are in order.

Even the nation's #1 dingleberry Joe Rogan is now turning against Trump. Would be a great time for folks to start admitting they fell for it again.

I will dare to admit aloud that I think maybe the founders were making a rational choice when they decided that only certain citizens would have the right to vote. As awful as that sounds, there are halfway decent arguments in favor. Maybe not just restricting to white wealthy landowners, but sometimes I do wonder if we would benefit from a filter that adequately screens for people 1) with real skin in the game and 2) a plausible claim to being well informed.

That is just a thought experiment, though, I do not believe it would play out beneficially if we tried to implement it in real life.

Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

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Post by randerson »

I've developed a new fear of my 2025 desktop PC being damaged by a power surge or something, because it would cost at least $2K more to replace than I paid for it, assuming I can even find parts now. Compared to the rest of my adult life when I used to secretly pray for something to fail so I would have a reason to upgrade.
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