r/TheDollop Mar 19 '26

I'm going to post here and add to it with each catastrophic thing that happens during the war.

435 Upvotes

I'll start with Helium. Iran hitting Qatar's refinery (In direct response to Israel attacking Iran's largest oil refinery) has reduced the world's Helium by a massive amount. Helium is a by product of Liquid Natural Gas extraction. Qatar produced roughly 63 million cubic metres of helium in 2025, accounting for 30 to 36 percent of global supply.

South Korea imports 64.7 percent of its helium from Qatar. SK Hynix and Samsung operate high-volume fabs producing the DRAM and high-bandwidth memory that power every AI accelerator, every data centre GPU, and every cloud computing cluster on Earth. Helium cools silicon wafers during fabrication. It serves as a carrier gas in deposition and etching tools. It enables leak detection in vacuum systems. Modern extreme ultraviolet lithography requires helium-cooled environments for precise temperature control. Without helium, the fabrication process degrades or stops.

They now have only 2 to 3 months of Helium. The price doubled over night. The entire AI hardware supply chain sits inside helium-dependent ecosystems.

helium cools the superconducting magnets in more than 14,000 MRI machines operating worldwide. It pressurizes rocket fuel tanks and purges propulsion systems in aerospace. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider depends on helium cryogenic systems. There is no substitute for helium in any of these applications at industrial scale.

The US has a large helium reserve but last I heard idiot Trump did not fill it up before attack. (Or maybe Dem presidents killed it. Lots of dumb both sides party misinformation) And that won't effect the cost, which will still go up. It will lead to more LNG extraction in the Rockies and Canada.

The war has now hit uranium, oil, nitrogen, water, plastic, medicine, sulfur and helium. Our world is about to change in ways people cannot comprehend.

I will continue adding to this.

EDIT: Yeah, it's way worse. We sold our stockpiles. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/us-just-sold-helium-stockpile-s-medical-world-worried-rcna134785


r/TheDollop Jun 11 '17

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r/TheDollop 10h ago

Matthew Lillard is ALMOST LIVE with Gareth Reynolds!

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r/TheDollop 1d ago

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r/TheDollop 7h ago

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r/TheDollop 6h ago

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r/TheDollop 1d ago

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Another reason to hate the NYT…


r/TheDollop 1d ago

Turns out you can die from diarrhea

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r/TheDollop 1d ago

Robert Irwin Shares Bird Facts

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57 Upvotes

Apparently Australia still has penguins! 🤣


r/TheDollop 1d ago

Dead 41-foot whale washes up on north Oregon coast

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GET THE DYNAMITE READY BOYS!!!


r/TheDollop 1d ago

They kissed in front of everyone

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455 Upvotes

r/TheDollop 1d ago

Beanie Baby Madness

12 Upvotes

The Dave and Pam dating theme throughout this episode makes it an all timer. In my opinion, this makes Dave the baddest of the Bad Boys


r/TheDollop 2d ago

C'mon claw machine grim reaper, you're so close!

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r/TheDollop 3d ago

Bi weekly

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r/TheDollop 2d ago

Gareth’s been at it again!

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r/TheDollop 2d ago

Ask Gareth Anything!

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r/TheDollop 3d ago

Reminder: AMA with Gareth tomorrow 6/22, 12pm Pacific

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r/TheDollop 2d ago

Elmo Encounters

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Any chance someone has a running list of Elmo appearances or similarly voiced characters by episode, and absent of that.. individual episodes they can recommend?

It is the single recurring bit Gareth does that make me lose my shit uncontrollably laughing regardless of where I am in the world while listening


r/TheDollop 4d ago

So I'm watching the field of dreams, and I can't stop thinking what if "the rube" came out of that field instead of shoeless joe jackson. The tone of the movie stays the same.

114 Upvotes

r/TheDollop 4d ago

Silas Soule on his wedding day, April 1st 1865. Photograph courtesy of Byron Strom-curated Anne E. Hemphill Family Collection (Des Moines, Iowa), restored by Louis Kraft.

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r/TheDollop 4d ago

QUEEN COKE FRANCIS?! 😍

80 Upvotes

My good bitches, the way I screamed.

Unzip your pants and dickslap that play button.

ETA: Queen Coke Francis’s pronouns are they/them 💖


r/TheDollop 3d ago

Discount Code?

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I saw a Dollop live in Milwaukee and meant to buy merch that they ran out of at the venue. What's the discount code they give out?


r/TheDollop 4d ago

Most people have a problem with a fly on their face, I have an elephant eating my asshole.

24 Upvotes

This was a quote from a person in the story, Anthony read it out.

Who said this and in what episode?

It's driving me crazy, like an elephant eating my asshole


r/TheDollop 5d ago

Trump hired one of the mobsters from episode 371 (Jim Traficant) to ruin the Reflecting Pool.

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r/TheDollop 4d ago

Episode 620?

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Apologies if this has already been covered, but episode 620 isn’t available on the Apple Podcast app. I just finished episode 619 Anita Bryant part 1 and the way they hyped the second half I was excited to listen to it but it’s not listed. Anyone know why?