MRI machines need thousands of liters of liquid helium to function. Health care workers say they can’t afford any disruptions to the helium supply chain.

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.

  • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
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    10 months ago

    Everything has been commodified and continues to be commodified, but that’s just another reason the world isn’t fair (or so I’ve been told)