>>or lint traps stuffing and toilet cloggings will happen.

Thank you for your service

Without Qatari helium, there's a massive global semiconductor crunch.

The fertilizer crunch and food scarcity too.

It's wild to me how oblivious ostensibly intelligent people on this site regularly manage to be.

Yes, the downstream effects of the helium shortage are going to be extremely painful. Chip production, MRI machines, welding, many scientific uses. (We can't forget the previous era of US insanity in dumping the helium reserve under the 'party balloon gas' anti-science/anti-facts 1990s Congress.[1])

The world still produces enough fertiliser, but prices will rise significantly. The biggest producers (China, India, USA) also consume most of their supply, and China and India get their methane from elsewhere or from coal. Russia is a leading exporter, so they could easily tighten the screws now, leading to further economic shocks. Big importers will feel a crunch [2] and this will leader to significant crop price increases.[3]

[1] https://www.marketplace.org/story/2024/02/21/federal-governm...

[2] https://wits.worldbank.org/trade/comtrade/en/country/ALL/yea...

[3] https://farmonaut.com/mining/largest-urea-producers-2026-glo...

Significant crop price increases, which tends to be bad news for anyone who eats food.

Ugh. Gotta start eating cake again.

The people who started this war are all multi millionaires. As always it's the paupers who will suffer the most.

But America's actions will not be forgotten.

I beg to differ, as I see it, it's both. Solving the problem necessarily entails punishing the malicious actors attempting to subvert and demolish our governance, justice system, society and way of life. Allowing Jan 6th to go unpunished at the highest levels was a key factor in what brought us here.

> demolish our governance, justice system, society and way of life

"Our" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. There were many "ours" whose ways of life, governance, and society were destroyed on the road to making the Jan 6th thing possible..

That's true, I was referring to the United States.

Go away, 'batin'!

You're a fool if you believe this. Nation states will still have utter impunity. That's why they build, buy or bully backdoors to secure design. The Epstein class will still get away with murder. All the little poeple will cower in fear of reprisal for speaking their minds.

None of what you said is of any relevance to the point at hand.

Makes me look at steganography in slips on sunglasses an entirely new light.

Take the slop to moltbook.

If a technology, backdoor or capability exists, it's not a question of if it will be abused, but rather when, how, and by whom.

Stop being obtuse.

Technophobic take tbh

No, this is an entirely pragmatic take. Show me where it's not been proven correct.

It's in fact an argument in favor of strong encryption, privacy by design, and security by default.

Tell that to the millions of Hasidic Jews in the United States who do not believe that a Jewish nation should exist at all.

Thanks for this information, I'd like to offer something in return.

Only certain Hasidic groups oppose Israel, including Satmar Hasidim (over 100k followers), and Neturei Karta (fringe, only about 1k supporters). That's less than millions, and a minority within the Hasidic world.

Theologically, they oppose it based on an interpretation a Talmudic passage saying that establishment of Israel has to happen after the coming of the Messiah.

Additionally, there are a lot different denominations of Jews within Israel, some of whom have more pragmatic views. But a significant, politically influential minority believes in their duty to govern all biblical land.

He said what he said.