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Iran War Chokes Off Helium Supply Critical for AI (www.wsj.com)
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[–] 8 points 7 months ago* (14 children)

This is bad news that feels like good news. Like when your house burns down, but it kills your abusive parents, so you’re kind of happy about it because it means you didn’t have to go through with your plans, and it means you don’t have to become a murderer after all.

And you have all that money saved up, and you already got that scholarship to college, and you can just move on with your life without any of those chains tying you to them in your former life…

So, really, what’s the actual fucking problem here? no more birthday balloons? Boo fucking hoo. My shitty parents never threw me a birthday party anyway.

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  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    No more medical imaging.
    No more fibre optics.
    No more semiconductors.
    No more laparoscopic or eye surgery.
    No more hard drives.
    No more titanium.
    No more rockets.

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  • [+] -8 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

    I feel like you weren’t really listening to what I had to say

    Tell me: when you read my post, what did you hear?

    How did that translate in your head?

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    You asked:

    So, really, what’s the actual fucking problem here?

    That's what they heard.

    They answered:

    No more medical imaging.
    No more fibre optics.
    No more semiconductors.
    No more laparoscopic or eye surgery.
    No more hard drives.
    No more titanium.
    No more rockets.

    That's what you didn't hear I guess.

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  • [+] -6 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    You guessed wrong

    What they didn’t hear is the problems of society that the blind pursuit of commercial mining of minerals causes society.

    But when commercial profit is your only motive, fuck people, right? Who gives a shit about them?

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    While I agree that the blind pursuit of capital will ultimately be our downfall, helium shortages actually have real, tangible effects on the very people you seem to vouch for.

    I feel you're lashing out for the mere sake of lashing out, regardless of who your target is. We're on the same side here.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I think your untreated trauma is negatively affecting how you treat the people around you.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago*

    We all have untreated trauma.

    I think the carelessness with which corporations pursue commercial mining profits traumatically affects society.

    Blaming me, an individual, just for pointing that out, is pretty ridiculous.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, like when your peice of shit abusive husband dies drunk driving do you don't have to worry about your search history or Netflix watch list.

    And you weren't even really into true crime anyway but it was kind of nice seeing what mistakes other people made and your peice of shit husband thinks it's dumb so you can get some peace.

    Anyway, yeah, feels like it should be good cuz fuck AI but it's gonna effect lots of other things too.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Knowing your abusive husband was a piece of shit just because you saw other people like him being called a piece of shit on some true crime show on Netflix gives you validation, but he was a piece of shit anyway, whether you saw that true crime show or not. And AI is evil, whether you read it on Reddit or not.

    Truth doesn’t need to be validated for it to be true. It just makes you feel better about it. That wasn’t really my point.

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