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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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[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

You mean Russia has been fascist since Peter the Great till now, with brief interruptions in 1905-1914 and 1991-1993 ?

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

—John Rogers

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

Atlas Shrugged and the Capital are mutually interchangeable in that quote.

I don't like the quote also because it implies that the reader would consider LOTR childish, thus accusing the reader of being a complete imbecile.

[-] TheGenderWitch@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

LOTR is childish lol

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

In the broad strokes absolutely, in the detail hell no. I had to learn linguistic theories and botany to get to the bottom of everything going on in the books

[-] TheGenderWitch@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

no the detail is insane, the dude made up languages and then created LOTR just to put them inside

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Sorta kinda but regardless, it's a solid 50 years or so of work

[-] booty@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

The Hobbit is a kids' book, but I'm not sure I'd say Lord of the Rings is childish. There are childish things about it, for sure. The black-and-white Christian morality and "good monarch" stuff, for example. But it's a serious work of literature at the same time.