Mastodawn

I’ll be talking about the very serious helium shortage that is looming (actually, it’s already upon us) and risks crippling semiconductor chip production and diagnostic instruments like MRI scanners, not to mention low temperature science.. It’s maddening because we’ve known that helium is very limited but it’s cheap so no one recovers it. It’ll be on BBC World Service Newshour around 13:45 BST.
#elements #chemistry #economics #profligacy

KB May 26, 2023

He's at it again.

“It is not known who paid.”

Hmm. Maybe the billionaire family he was visiting? The one whose business is registered in Luxembourg for tax?

“Some Tory MPs have privately expressed concern that Sunak’s repeated use of hugely expensive chartered helicopters ... make him appear out of touch with the concerns and lives of voters.”

Oh, ya think?

#Sunak #Travel #Profligacy

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/26/sunak-takes-helicopter-yorkshire-stopoff-two-miles-from-airport

Sunak takes helicopter to Yorkshire – via stopoff just two miles from an airport

PM visits billionaire family near Manchester on way, raising further questions about his travel habits

The Guardian

Simple Dictionary Bot Apr 28, 2023

#Profligacy - The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness.

iamBullivant Mar 1, 2023

I am reading that Brian's coronation is expected to cost £100 million. What an extraordinary sum of money to spend on a single event when the country is on its knees and nurses are going to foodbanks. It is disgraceful. Thank God I am a lifelong republican.

#Coronation #CharlesWindsor #Profligacy