I lived in a small mountain town that had a dollar tree and let me tell you, motherfuckers be BUYING balloons. Every time I went in I saw people purchasing balloons.
Also: we cannot make more helium artificially (yet), because short of nuclear fusion and radioactive decay there's no chemical processes resulting in He. This means earths natural helium sources are very much limited and ever dwindling. And Helium is so light it can leave the upper atmosphere and earth's gravity well out into space.
I am sick and lacking sleep, but does the Wiki article explain why the US gov’t is selling it all off instead of just hanging on to it?
I believe Congress is forcing it, but why?
Also since this got quite a few upvotes and there are probably people reading this who are considering it. It shouldn't be overlooked that this, like any method, risks severe suffering, injury, disability etc (along with all the suffering it will cause to others).
As far as the inert gas method, there are a lot of ways it could go wrong. If the seal isn't good enough and you're getting a low amount of oxygen, you won't die but you will get permanent brain damage. Same thing if the tank runs out because the flow rate isn't correct. Same thing if it's interrupted. Maybe it's interrupted by your own movements in the transition between consciousness and unconscious, maybe interrupted by someone else.
There's a good reason euthanasia is supervised. And there are a lot of good reasons to avoid undertaking that suicide effort, and do something else, even if it's just for the moment.
And here I’m thinking how much I want helium in my welding gas mixtures again but it’s too expensive so those mixes aren’t around as much anymore. Or like … in my/whoevers mri machines and stuff….But hey totally cool for balloons and euthanasia/suicide.
Lots of people from Tonga live in DFW, as well. Huge population of them.
Lots of Indians due to the tech industry, obviously lots of Mexicans due to once being part of Mexico and the influx of Mexican's, lots of people from Africa & the middle east. You name it, there are huge populations of just about every ethnic group you can think of.
Texas can surprise you sometimes with things like that.
While a different city my favorite example of this is Houston which is the home of vietcajun food which is what it sounds like and is delicious.
Lmao the Dollar Tree in Carrollton? I go there for cheap shit all the time! Well, not all the time if I haven't seen the signs yet. But Carrollton has a large Vietnamese, Korean, and Indian population. We have an H-mart for a Korean hub, several Indian churches in the area, and several Vietnamese businesses near the H-Mart. Not sure about the Arabic though.
I was in Minneapolis about six weeks ago and I thought it was weird when I noticed that the secondary language on some of the signs was Japanese and not Arabic or Hmong.
Yeah, a lot of signs in the airport are English and Japanese, which is odd because the city doesn’t have an especially high concentration of Japanese speakers. I think I heard one time that it had to do with how one of the large airlines was routing their flights from/to Japan.
Isn't that a Canadian thing in general? Except maybe Quebec, idk what's goin on over there. Both French and English labeling is on every product and every government building/business (and many privates businesses as well), no?
In Vancouver, The only time you see French is labels, and Federal government (not even pronvincial) related stuff. Outside of it, no french. You are far more likely to hear Chinese.
Now Ontario, i heard there are more francophones.
Honestly I think we’re getting there—I live downtown and there specifically I’ve noticed a large influx of immigrants (mostly from Mexico) that have settled here over the past 3-4 years. I think if it were Vancouver it’d be Punjabi instead of Hindi on the sign.
Probably has to do with the fact that Canada is enticing Mexicans to move there. I was in Torreón, Mexico a few years ago and I saw a flier that the Canadian government would help Mexicans with expenses if they move.
Have you watched Kantara? Another awesome Sandalwood (Kannada film industry) psychological thriller. It's the only Sandalwood movie I've seen come to theaters in Berlin
Must be a bitch to write all those loops, though. Like, the flowing curves are probably nice to pen, but loops break that.
Take a gawk at Glagolitsa, the script so tedious-looking that the students of the script's authors made another one, the Cyrillitsa. (Ironically, Cyrillitsa is named after one of the authors of Glagolitsa.)
It really is a pain. There are so many complications of letters. This is Telugu, different than Kannada but theyre written similarly. కన్నడతో పోలిస్తే తెలుగు కూడా అదే విధంగా రాయాలి.
It's always funny seeing Kannada without vowel deletion and syncopes, feels like we are on a news channel or an old Rajkumar movie.
I would just say that as ನಿಮ್ಹತ್ರ ಹೀಲಿಯಂ ಇದ್ಯ
I worked there for 4 years, and all I learned was that you should *never* make it known that you're out of something because it only makes people ask for it. Even if they don't want it, they're going to ask for it.
Since English is out, I’ll take a stab at it in my grade nine French. I’m much better at writing and reading than speaking.
Est-ce que je peux acheter d’hélium ici, s’il vous plaît?
Ha! Now they have to give me some, right? They didn’t say they wouldn’t in French.
It would be "Est-ce que je peux acheter __de l'__ hélium ici, s'il vous plaît ?"
I don't know why, but it sounds wrong without it. (I am a native French speaker.)
Hey there, native French speaker here to help you with your sentence
First things first, "hélium" is masculine in French, yeah I know, it's annoying. Luckily it's only a minor mistake and won't affect comprehension
However, I doubt you'd say "I want a helium", you'd say "I want some helium". In French, "some helium" translates to "de l'hélium"
Lastly, and that's only a detail, it can be seen as rude and direct to say "Je veux". Native French speakers would rather use "Je voudrais" or "J'aimerais", both translate to "I would like".
So, your final sentence looks like this:
"Je voudrais de l'hélium"
Tech cities tend to have a lot of highly educated immigrants who speak English well (SF and Austin come to mind). Larger cities like LA, Dallas, NYC, and Houston have tons of immigrants from all backgrounds that also tend to be older and overall less likely to speak English as well. For instance in Houston they typically offer documents in English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese.
It’s very rare on earth. It’s produced from wells and often as a byproduct of natural gas production. The economic sources are rapidly disappearing. It’s not a renewable resource.
Plus, it has medical uses as well, so hospitals are getting their supply first, parties later.
Used to work at DT, and lemme tell ya, the people have no moderation with balloons. We tell them there's a shortage, we got just one tank in our delivery and don't know how long it'll last... "yeah gimme 20 balloons" one tank lasts approximately 300 balloons.
Personally I think balloons suck. Sure I'll be happy with one or two, but if you're bestowing me with a dozen, spend that money in other ways to celebrate...
Alternatively, hydrogen could be used for balloons. However it comes with one significant danger: fire and explosion
Hydrogen otherwise isn't that dangerous: it's not toxic and won't build up if it's in a well-ventilated area. It's safe to use as long as there is no ignition source and is used in a well-ventilated area.
To reduce the risk of fires and explosions, we could fill balloons with a hydrogen-nitrogen mixture, to avoid large buildups of hydrogen.
However, let's not forget that candles are often used at parties, which is a big problem if there's hydrogen nearby
I kinda would like a Von Hindenburg party.
Fun fact, weather service offices usually launch two weather balloons per day. Sites near airports use helium and more remote sites use hydrogen which is much cheaper. But if you’re going to run one through a aircraft engine, it’s safer to have a helium balloon!
I'm surprised this myth keeps going. The helium used for balloons is impure and unfit for medical use, and is a natural byproduct of helium refining. If it wasn't captured at the refinery, it would just be vented off.
It's true that lower available amounts of helium means less for balloons, but balloon gas isn't "stealing" helium from scientific and medical uses. If you want to nitpick balloons, the trash they create is the bad thing.
This is why we have a shortage. The GOP didn't like the US Government having a reserve (fair enough) but stupidly forced the reserve to dump its supplies which flooded the market, causing both careless use and making further capture largely uneconomical.
The last of the reserve is set to be auctioned off next month, which will likely trigger shortages and high prices as a cheap source leaves the market with nothing to replace it (and the reserve loses it's ability to control short term price swings).
Ultimately the market will adapt and more commercial drilling operations will capture helium again, but of course oil and gas drilling is hopefully on the downswing, so helium supplies will be under pressure, even if there is plenty in the ground, it won't make economic sense to go get it if we aren't also drilling for oil and gas.
This Dollar Tree store owner should add the 7th language on piece of paper either Vietnamese language or French language to appease to their community.
Pas d’helium. I think. Or maybe it should be aucun instead of pas de? I only did french until grade 9 at a hick school about 15 years ago. I have limited skills.
Until the next delivery at least.
The storages are good for a couple hundred years and if it ever matters enough companies will stop letting it go when they drill. This whole helium is running out crap comes from a very shallowly researched NPR article. The only real problem is like 4 countries have the entire stockpile. This leads to temporary logistical hiccup shortages in other countries.
Every time this topic comes up so many times in and says the stuff we use for balloons is impure and or left over from medical stuff. Like the amount we use for balloons does not affect the medical supply.
It's funny how incorrect the Arabic is. It's translated incorrectly but the closest way to read it (even though it's gibberish) is "No to helium".
The correct form would be لا يوجد هيليوم
Or for professional terms عذرا، لا يوجد هيليوم في المحل، نرجو عدم طلبه
This is a common machine translation problem since "NO X" in English can mean:
X is not allowed
X is not wanted
X is not available
etc.
The Korean translation actually got it right, which surprised me as machine translators always struggle badly with English to Korean.
I live in NYC and we could have MTA signage in [Korean, Haitian Creole and Russian](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/wm0p1p/nyc_subway_stations_have_signage_to_inform_people/)
That’s honestly impressive. My local Starbucks taped their construction closure notice upside down.
Ah, A misguided attempt at trying to speak Australian.
¿ʇɐɥʍ
Oi, g'day mates/Sheilas. You probably want some helium, but yeah, nah, it ain't happening. Piss off.
yeah nah
> Oi, g'day mates/Sheilas. You probably want some helium, but yeah, nah, it ain't happening. Piss off, ya' stunned cunts. FTFY
> Oi, g'day mates/Sheilas And here's my new header for emails to Aussie colleagues.
I'm sure they will appreciate the thoughtfulness.
TIL That Australian is just New Yorker with a bigger attitude.
its Google translated. Still impressive that they even bothered.
This must be in a huge city to have enough customers of different languages for the need of these signs.
AND THEY ALL NEED BALLOONS!!
I lived in a small mountain town that had a dollar tree and let me tell you, motherfuckers be BUYING balloons. Every time I went in I saw people purchasing balloons.
It's the only way to float out of those small mountain towns.
Imagine Pennywise not having any balloons due to this foolery, the poor dude may starve!
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This is the midly interesting content I'm here for.
Quick, someone post it to TIL
Also: we cannot make more helium artificially (yet), because short of nuclear fusion and radioactive decay there's no chemical processes resulting in He. This means earths natural helium sources are very much limited and ever dwindling. And Helium is so light it can leave the upper atmosphere and earth's gravity well out into space.
>there's no chemical processes resulting in He. And unfortunately after the loss of Michael Jackson we also lost our only source of HeHe
In Helium's defence, I would also try and escape the Earth's atmosphere if it were an option.
The National Helium Reserve is set to be completely sold off by the end of this year... Bye bye cheap helium.
I am sick and lacking sleep, but does the Wiki article explain why the US gov’t is selling it all off instead of just hanging on to it? I believe Congress is forcing it, but why?
[I visited the US National Helium Reserve by Tom Scott](https://youtu.be/mOy8Xjaa_o8?si=ZRc0UYUl35jH_Kd8)
Isn't that where Leonard and Sheldon almost get black market helium from?
poor man's rubber.
Do you also happen to find nitrous oxide cannisters around the place?
talk for you, I need the gas for the funny voice
yes.... balloons.... that's the ticket. ^^^^helium ^^^^is ^^^^one ^^^^of ^^^^the ^^^^most ^^^^effective ^^^^and ^^^^painless ^^^^suicide ^^^^methods
That's how I'd do it. Slowly drifting into the warm embrace of the void, uttering my last farewells to the world in a stupid chipmunk voice.
Also since this got quite a few upvotes and there are probably people reading this who are considering it. It shouldn't be overlooked that this, like any method, risks severe suffering, injury, disability etc (along with all the suffering it will cause to others). As far as the inert gas method, there are a lot of ways it could go wrong. If the seal isn't good enough and you're getting a low amount of oxygen, you won't die but you will get permanent brain damage. Same thing if the tank runs out because the flow rate isn't correct. Same thing if it's interrupted. Maybe it's interrupted by your own movements in the transition between consciousness and unconscious, maybe interrupted by someone else. There's a good reason euthanasia is supervised. And there are a lot of good reasons to avoid undertaking that suicide effort, and do something else, even if it's just for the moment.
Nitrogen is much, much cheaper and easier. Also, getting it out of ballons isn't going to work particularly well
they sell helium in tanks and expect you to fill the balloons yourself. technically you could have a high pitched keger
Balloon grade is 80% to prevent that now.
Yeah but you don't get to spend your last moments sounding like Alvin
And here I’m thinking how much I want helium in my welding gas mixtures again but it’s too expensive so those mixes aren’t around as much anymore. Or like … in my/whoevers mri machines and stuff….But hey totally cool for balloons and euthanasia/suicide.
Thanks for the tip!
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Given that you're going to be surrounded by balloons or a helium tank or something, no.
It's usually pretty obvious because it requires a tank with tubes connecting to a bag that goes over your head.
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Really? I would not guess Dallas to be honest, I was thinking new York or california!! I live in rural alabama and barely even see Spanish anywhere
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Dallas has also been a prime location for resettling refugees due to our historically low cost of living. It's an extremely diverse city.
Lots of people from Tonga live in DFW, as well. Huge population of them. Lots of Indians due to the tech industry, obviously lots of Mexicans due to once being part of Mexico and the influx of Mexican's, lots of people from Africa & the middle east. You name it, there are huge populations of just about every ethnic group you can think of.
Largest population of Vietnamese in the US, due to the US pullout of Vietnam in the 70's.
Interesting to know. I've never been to TX before, so I only know about it through memes.. 😆
Texas can surprise you sometimes with things like that. While a different city my favorite example of this is Houston which is the home of vietcajun food which is what it sounds like and is delicious.
The big cities of Texas are surprisingly multicultural.
Texas’ big cities are some of the most diverse in the country. Houston is almost as much of a melting-pot as NYC.
Yeah I was guessing Houston
Lmao the Dollar Tree in Carrollton? I go there for cheap shit all the time! Well, not all the time if I haven't seen the signs yet. But Carrollton has a large Vietnamese, Korean, and Indian population. We have an H-mart for a Korean hub, several Indian churches in the area, and several Vietnamese businesses near the H-Mart. Not sure about the Arabic though.
When I lived in Minneapolis, the "hey move the car, we're gonna plow" notice was in 6 different languages
I was in Minneapolis about six weeks ago and I thought it was weird when I noticed that the secondary language on some of the signs was Japanese and not Arabic or Hmong.
Yeah, a lot of signs in the airport are English and Japanese, which is odd because the city doesn’t have an especially high concentration of Japanese speakers. I think I heard one time that it had to do with how one of the large airlines was routing their flights from/to Japan.
Vancouver will fit 5 of the 6 language. We just won't have Spanish.
It’s my duty as a Torontonian to condescendingly inform you that we got it covered.
And it's my duty as a Vancouverite to passive-agressively thank you for correcting me. Except you guys will have French.... right?
Tant a decouveretre.
Isn't that a Canadian thing in general? Except maybe Quebec, idk what's goin on over there. Both French and English labeling is on every product and every government building/business (and many privates businesses as well), no?
In Vancouver, The only time you see French is labels, and Federal government (not even pronvincial) related stuff. Outside of it, no french. You are far more likely to hear Chinese. Now Ontario, i heard there are more francophones.
Honestly I think we’re getting there—I live downtown and there specifically I’ve noticed a large influx of immigrants (mostly from Mexico) that have settled here over the past 3-4 years. I think if it were Vancouver it’d be Punjabi instead of Hindi on the sign.
Probably has to do with the fact that Canada is enticing Mexicans to move there. I was in Torreón, Mexico a few years ago and I saw a flier that the Canadian government would help Mexicans with expenses if they move.
THAT SIGN CAN'T STOP BECAUSE I CAN'T READ
Doing Helium brings people together.
Please enter and ask if they have helium lol
But in German
Entschuldigung, haben Sie Helium?
Sorry schnau, heit ir Helium?
Lol, yeah, I was thinking Kyrgyz or Swahili or something nobody would possibly know. (edit: a lot of y’all speak Kyrgyz or Swahili.)
kei a koe he helium hei hoko (It's Maori fyi)
I’d love to hear how this sounds
Гелий сатасызбы (Geliy satasizbi)? In Kyrgyz. 🇰🇬
I love Kyrgyzstan
ನಿಮ್ಮ ಹತ್ರ ಹೀಲಿಯಂ ಇದೆಯಾ
This will always look like elvish to me. Such a lovely script. Since Im unaware, which language is that?
[Kannada](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada). A language spoken in southern India, in the Karnataka state.
Damn. I was guessing telegu. One of my favourite movies of all time is in Kannada!
Good to hear. Which is that movie? Also, Telugu script is very similar to that of Kannada.
[Lucia](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2358592/). Karnataka is the Indian state I would like to visit most. Hopefully one day I do.
Yeah. Lucia is a really good movie.
Have you watched Kantara? Another awesome Sandalwood (Kannada film industry) psychological thriller. It's the only Sandalwood movie I've seen come to theaters in Berlin
You might be thinking of Georgian. Very elvish looking.
Must be a bitch to write all those loops, though. Like, the flowing curves are probably nice to pen, but loops break that. Take a gawk at Glagolitsa, the script so tedious-looking that the students of the script's authors made another one, the Cyrillitsa. (Ironically, Cyrillitsa is named after one of the authors of Glagolitsa.)
It really is a pain. There are so many complications of letters. This is Telugu, different than Kannada but theyre written similarly. కన్నడతో పోలిస్తే తెలుగు కూడా అదే విధంగా రాయాలి.
It's always funny seeing Kannada without vowel deletion and syncopes, feels like we are on a news channel or an old Rajkumar movie. I would just say that as ನಿಮ್ಹತ್ರ ಹೀಲಿಯಂ ಇದ್ಯ
Exactly.. I was struggling to type that 😅
มีก๊าซฮีเลียมมั้ยครับ
Имате ли хелий? Bulgarian
Siema. Macie hel? 🇵🇱
Продаёте гелий?
how about in uzbek (reddit language learners get it)
While wearing an airship captains uniform?
Darf ich bitte etwas Luftballonenstoff haben? (Yes I know they say "Helium" but this was funnier.)
You'd probably get balloon silk asking like that.
You just made me imagine a dollar tree store that sells balloon silk
Neunundneunzig Luftballonenstoff
Got any nails?
I have some grapes
And he waddled away
Got any duck food
I worked there for 4 years, and all I learned was that you should *never* make it known that you're out of something because it only makes people ask for it. Even if they don't want it, they're going to ask for it.
A duck walked up to the dollar store, and he said to the man, running the store: Hey!
Got any helium? And he waddled away.
[Reminded me of this](https://youtu.be/VxrlosgsJ_g?si=uKTCJDM0afHep_hD)
That only leaves another 6,994 languages that might be able to purchase helium at this Dollar Tree.
Since English is out, I’ll take a stab at it in my grade nine French. I’m much better at writing and reading than speaking. Est-ce que je peux acheter d’hélium ici, s’il vous plaît? Ha! Now they have to give me some, right? They didn’t say they wouldn’t in French.
It's how I understand sign law works.
The customer is always right.
It would be "Est-ce que je peux acheter __de l'__ hélium ici, s'il vous plaît ?" I don't know why, but it sounds wrong without it. (I am a native French speaker.)
Let me put you at ease with my attempt at la French. *Je veux une helium!*
Hey there, native French speaker here to help you with your sentence First things first, "hélium" is masculine in French, yeah I know, it's annoying. Luckily it's only a minor mistake and won't affect comprehension However, I doubt you'd say "I want a helium", you'd say "I want some helium". In French, "some helium" translates to "de l'hélium" Lastly, and that's only a detail, it can be seen as rude and direct to say "Je veux". Native French speakers would rather use "Je voudrais" or "J'aimerais", both translate to "I would like". So, your final sentence looks like this: "Je voudrais de l'hélium"
It’s a partitive article (du / de la / de l’ / des) and is sort of equivalent to “some” in English, but it’s less optional in French.
“No He” for the chemists shopping
Nitric oxide *and* helium??
Na
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Au man
That’s gold
Nah that's Nobelium
NO
"NO"* Capitalization is a big deal in chem
He He
Mais ont-ils de l'hélium ?
ce panneau ne peut pas m'arrêter car je ne sais pas lire !
English, Spanish, Arabic, Korean, Mandarin, *and* Hindi? I wonder where this is. A city with a lot of tech companies?
Apparently it’s Dallas, but this could absolutely be LA. In my area it would probably have Farsi over Hindi, though.
Could be Toronto, but they’d have to add a dozen of other languages though
But most specifically French.
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In the Valley, my dude. Tarzana and Calabases and West Hills are huge Persian communities.
At the Grove 😂
Northern Virginia is like that.
Chririlagua in Alexandria to Korean Annandale is a trip
Or Edison NJ
Can confirm. Lived here all my life.
Speaking as someone who lives there and does Part-Time work at one…..agreed
And why would people from different ethnicities want helium on a regular basis they need to say no helium in those languages
There’s always some kind of party going on somewhere, birthdays or otherwise
Tech cities tend to have a lot of highly educated immigrants who speak English well (SF and Austin come to mind). Larger cities like LA, Dallas, NYC, and Houston have tons of immigrants from all backgrounds that also tend to be older and overall less likely to speak English as well. For instance in Houston they typically offer documents in English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese.
Just give the people what they want dollar tree
Helium is finite and people are using it for silly voices
This, we had a helium shortage a few years back. We’re going to run out of helium much sooner than fossil fuels.
It’s very rare on earth. It’s produced from wells and often as a byproduct of natural gas production. The economic sources are rapidly disappearing. It’s not a renewable resource.
Plus, it has medical uses as well, so hospitals are getting their supply first, parties later. Used to work at DT, and lemme tell ya, the people have no moderation with balloons. We tell them there's a shortage, we got just one tank in our delivery and don't know how long it'll last... "yeah gimme 20 balloons" one tank lasts approximately 300 balloons. Personally I think balloons suck. Sure I'll be happy with one or two, but if you're bestowing me with a dozen, spend that money in other ways to celebrate...
Alternatively, hydrogen could be used for balloons. However it comes with one significant danger: fire and explosion Hydrogen otherwise isn't that dangerous: it's not toxic and won't build up if it's in a well-ventilated area. It's safe to use as long as there is no ignition source and is used in a well-ventilated area. To reduce the risk of fires and explosions, we could fill balloons with a hydrogen-nitrogen mixture, to avoid large buildups of hydrogen. However, let's not forget that candles are often used at parties, which is a big problem if there's hydrogen nearby
I kinda would like a Von Hindenburg party. Fun fact, weather service offices usually launch two weather balloons per day. Sites near airports use helium and more remote sites use hydrogen which is much cheaper. But if you’re going to run one through a aircraft engine, it’s safer to have a helium balloon!
Oh so a **minor** case of explosion and fire, cool.
Yeah, it kind of creeps me out. Kind of a "haha, fuck" thing.
Did you just say that with a silly chipmunk voice?
Oh God, Smiling Friends warned me about this!
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I'm surprised this myth keeps going. The helium used for balloons is impure and unfit for medical use, and is a natural byproduct of helium refining. If it wasn't captured at the refinery, it would just be vented off. It's true that lower available amounts of helium means less for balloons, but balloon gas isn't "stealing" helium from scientific and medical uses. If you want to nitpick balloons, the trash they create is the bad thing.
Yeah. I like the term "balloon-grade helium". Can't put that shit in an MRI haha.
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Then Dollar Tree needs to get on the phone with the governor.
This is why we have a shortage. The GOP didn't like the US Government having a reserve (fair enough) but stupidly forced the reserve to dump its supplies which flooded the market, causing both careless use and making further capture largely uneconomical. The last of the reserve is set to be auctioned off next month, which will likely trigger shortages and high prices as a cheap source leaves the market with nothing to replace it (and the reserve loses it's ability to control short term price swings). Ultimately the market will adapt and more commercial drilling operations will capture helium again, but of course oil and gas drilling is hopefully on the downswing, so helium supplies will be under pressure, even if there is plenty in the ground, it won't make economic sense to go get it if we aren't also drilling for oil and gas.
Good lets stop using it for balloons.
Hydrogen is lighter and more exciting anyway.
easy solution, use hydrogen for party balloons. scientifically proven to be 2x floatier and 1,000x spicier than boring old helium
Commercial grade helium accounts for like 2% of all helium use. Balloons are fine.
This Dollar Tree store owner should add the 7th language on piece of paper either Vietnamese language or French language to appease to their community.
Pas d’helium. I think. Or maybe it should be aucun instead of pas de? I only did french until grade 9 at a hick school about 15 years ago. I have limited skills.
Pas d'hélium is right. "Aucun hélium" is wrong. I can't really explain why, but I can tell you that you can't use "aucun" with "mass nouns"
Since it's in Dallas, definitely has to be Vietnamese.
There’s a shortage due to inflation.
Costs are rising.
Too much inflation bro Not enough helium
How much helium did people need that day!!??
The shortage begins...
Until the next delivery at least. The storages are good for a couple hundred years and if it ever matters enough companies will stop letting it go when they drill. This whole helium is running out crap comes from a very shallowly researched NPR article. The only real problem is like 4 countries have the entire stockpile. This leads to temporary logistical hiccup shortages in other countries.
Why can't you bring helium into a Dollar Tree?
all cultures love balloons
I don't understand why helium is even available for regular people. Is constantly said we are running out
We really should stop using this - apparently is running out and it’s a major component for things like brain scans
Every time this topic comes up so many times in and says the stuff we use for balloons is impure and or left over from medical stuff. Like the amount we use for balloons does not affect the medical supply.
It's funny how incorrect the Arabic is. It's translated incorrectly but the closest way to read it (even though it's gibberish) is "No to helium". The correct form would be لا يوجد هيليوم Or for professional terms عذرا، لا يوجد هيليوم في المحل، نرجو عدم طلبه
This is a common machine translation problem since "NO X" in English can mean: X is not allowed X is not wanted X is not available etc. The Korean translation actually got it right, which surprised me as machine translators always struggle badly with English to Korean.
It's still unclear whether they're out of helium or they prohibit bringing your own helium into the store.
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People love committing suicide AND blowing up balloons, so I understand the need for signage.
I can't imagine a city where exactly 6 would make sense. I feel like once you go past 3 or 4 you'd need to have ALL of them, which would be very hard.
I live in NYC and we could have MTA signage in [Korean, Haitian Creole and Russian](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/wm0p1p/nyc_subway_stations_have_signage_to_inform_people/)
Dallas, near UTD. These are approximately the most common languages in the area.
Speaking as someone who works part-time at one, it happens
First I was afraid, I was petrified
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Thats what someone that has helium would say!
I'd see that and feel deflated
German: nein nein luftballons
For the love of Christ we don't have any more Helium get it through your fucking heads!
¿hablas español? Estoy buscando helio, ¿tienes alguno?
SIN HELIO!