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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 lordgroff »

api wrote: post #13
varispeed wrote: post #6

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That's one of the most disappointing things to me. These people have such resources and the limit of their vision is: bang young girls, accumulate bling, push divisive hateful politics, start wars. That's it. That's the best they can do. Even nominally selfish far-sighted things like genuinely funding a deep research program for life extension is not really something they're into. I mean some of them are "into" it in…

It's incredibly distressing, but I think the issue here lies with 'we'. Those at the very top are a very, shall we say, unique group. Those who seek power at such a level are not like the rest of us. There's established research showing that psychopathic and sociopathic traits are vastly more common among the "CEO class". It's not that wealth and power _makes_ them so, it's that relatively few are willing to be completely amoral or malicious in order to obtain as much power as possible. I believe that this effect is greatly magnified at the very top.

It's a tale as old as Plato: those most likely to WANT to rule are exactly the 'candidates' who absolutely should not.

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

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Post by bilsbie »

fluidcruft wrote: post #34
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.

A lot of the balloon use has switched to nitrogen (helium became much, much more expensive after the strategic helium reserve was sold off)

Is lifting gas? That’s pretty cool.

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

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Post by fhdkweig »

dv_dt wrote: post #33
fhdkweig wrote: post #27

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> These people have such resources and the limit of their vision is: bang young girls, accumulate bling, push divisive hateful politics, start wars. I really don't like how Bill Gates and Microsoft made their money, but at least he has realized that in his twilight years to try to make amends via humanitarian work. Buying the stairway to heaven.

Except that foundations are massive tax shelters - maybe he did some good along the way, but the also blocked IP release of covid vaccine technologies

Can you give me more information on that? DDG on Bill Gates and COVID just keeps finding stuff about Epstien (for some bizarre reason).

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

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Post by spiderfarmer »

fhdkweig wrote: post #23
coreyh14444 wrote: post #16

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

Could you define the acronym "e/acc"? DDG seems to think it means: "What Does E/Acc Stand For, And What Does It Mean? E/acc stands for the phrase effective accelerationism, and it basically indicates one's personal ideological belief that artificial intelligence will one day become an all-powerful being that can fix the vast majority of humanity's problems." I don't think I have ever heard a MAGA talk about AI.

The MAGA Web3 bros have all switched to the Clawdbot hypetrain, still flogging courses and slop.

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

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Post by cagenut »

bix6 wrote: post #37
vasco wrote: post #17

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Messer Completes Acquisition of Federal Helium System from BLM https://www.messer-us.com/press-releases/messer-completes-ac...

Why did we sell it instead of lease? This seems like something that should be in public hands.

sorry thats too far left wing an opinion in america today

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

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Post by breppp »

fabian2k wrote: post #40
breppp wrote: post #39

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However Qatar stopped production before the straits were officially closed and their stated reason is "due to military attacks", also Russian or Chinese ships can pass

There is no such thing as "officially closed". The moment people start shooting there, driving a ship across becomes dangerous. This was an absolutely predictable consequence of the attacks on Iran, you didn't need to wait until several tankers were burning to know these attacks were likely to happen and the strait would become essentially too risky to pass.

Back then there were only two ships attacked in the straits, and one was an Iranian shadow fleet ship. I am not sure that is "closing the straits" in any shape or form

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

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Post by cpncrunch »

bilsbie wrote: post #42
fluidcruft wrote: post #34

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A lot of the balloon use has switched to nitrogen (helium became much, much more expensive after the strategic helium reserve was sold off)

Is lifting gas? That’s pretty cool.

No.

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

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Post by greesil »

bombcar wrote: post #35
coldpie wrote: post #30

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I think about how we could've paid for two brand new, gigawatt-scale nuclear power plants for the same amount of money as Elon Musk flushed down the toilet to try to shut down a website he didn't like. Extreme wealth is a mental illness, and wealth caps are healthcare.

It's worse when you realize that Musk at least does something with his insane wealth, even if it's also insane. Most either do nothing really of note, or donate it to "causes", which may be good, but kind of boring.

I can appreciate boring nowadays.
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