Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021: Megathread - A cozy thread for watching the supply chain fall apart just in time for the holidays

[contradiction of terns]

1) There are many, many sources for vitamin C besides citrus. If all else fails, a cup and a half of sauerkraut should keep you sufficiently ascorbic.

2) why would you care what color your asshole was?

I actually recommend getting a bottle of vitamin c tablets, but it seemed like good general advice to toss in 'have access to vitamin C if fresh fruit shortages are expected near you.'

Question: Does it matter if the sauerkraut is cold fermented or boiled? I would imagine boiled cabbage doesn't have as much in the way of nutrients (also making your own cold fermented sauerkraut is stupid easy).

A lot of people care.

 

[Sped Xing]

People BOIL sauerkraut? Gross. Google says that does reduce vitamin C.

And yes, tablets are certainly the best option. K was just picking the grossest option. I mean, I like sauerkraut from time to time, but I'm not anxious to go full Jilly Juice.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

• You die of thirst at around 10 days without water. This is the recommended method if you desire euthanasia and cannot get it.

I've heard it's a very miserable death because of how your body psychologically craves water. But physically it's supposedly not terrible since the real problem is when the person is rehydrated where they get awful kidney cramps. Apparently you also trip balls as you get closer to death because of how severe dehydration it fucks up your body's chemistry.

It's probably not worth it when you could do a carbon monoxide suicide (just don't fuck up because it's painful as hell), neck yourself, or do the shotgun mouthwash.

1) There are many, many sources for vitamin C besides citrus. If all else fails, a cup and a half of sauerkraut should keep you sufficiently ascorbic.

Most fresh fruit or vegetables has a sufficient amount, the problem historically was that most sorts of preservation ruins the vitamin C content. Like if you're really desperate, look for wild berries growing by the roadside and eat them. Most of them are edible (and if they aren't you'll probably just throw it up since they aren't too poisonous). Those contain vitamin C.

2) why would you care what color your asshole was?

Anal bleaching and eating ass is hip with the kids these days.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

The Just-In-Time supply system grocery stores and other retail business operate on is very vulnerable to this kind of problem and operates under the assumption that everything operates perfectly.

This is one of the worst concepts that happened to modern retail. "Here is a system that is great if everything works perfectly and none of the hundreds of moving parts that make up a supply chain ever break."

 

[tehpope]

Went shopping today. Nothing seemed amiss. Maybe some low stocks on sodas and lays chips, but its saturday. The busiest shopping day of the week.

 

[Kane Lives]

This is one of the worst concepts that happened to modern retail. "Here is a system that is great if everything works perfectly and none of the hundreds of moving parts that make up a supply chain ever break."

It's not as insane as it sounds, to be fair. JIT is simply the logical conclusion of the streamlining of the manufacturing process. Keeping inventory around is expensive, both in terms of floorspace and maintenance. Having to keep less inventory means better profits, without cutting the important stuff like quality or quantity.

What is insane, however, is how in this clown world, it is apparently cheaper to ship your raw material from across the ocean and then ship the finished goods back, rather than manufacturing it on the spot. But I blame that more on how globalism has utterly distorted the supply and demand of local economies.

 

[northstar747]

There were reports that Venezuela's oil production reached close to, or at 0 at one point, because they neglected to maintain the infrastructure, and fired all or most of their skilled workers, to go all-in on the socialism gravy train, which does not have a happy ending.

One of the issue of corruption is that you reward those who are loyal vs those who are able. Hence why more unstable countries have purges.

 

[contradiction of terns]

Actual news updates:

Australian PM says they will have a meeting IN A YEAR from now to decide what to do about their supply chain. Australian Kiwis on suicide watch.

Guidance on how to apply new UN requirements to the supply chain. (If you think they're pushing The Great Reset via the supply chain crisis you'll probably enjoy this).

New York predicts severe shortages of medical workers after their vaccine mandate sets in and plans to fill the jobs with National Guardsmen. (This got added to the OP Updates section).

My tin foil hat view of this is it's soft exposure to shortages. Like, getting the population used to shortages and studying how we react. I believe the toilet-paper shortage, because it's such a 'pointless' product, was driven by social engineers to test the population of how easily they panic.
This fuel 'crisis' was caused because TEN petrol stations were closed in the whole UK (no mention of locations, so they could be anywhere, or nowhere) and now there are forecourts up and down the country that have ran out, which wouldn't have done if it was never in the media. Funny how broadcasting a non-shortage leads to this, but La Palma was radio silence up until recently.

I don't believe any of it.

Maybe? Pre-COVID in 2019 the UN was impressing on world leaders how important it was to cut North Korea out of the supply chain more fully to force policy changes.

Kim Jung Un's weight loss is speculated to be a 'See? Glorious Leader suffers with you' move because his people are starving due to crops failing + no imports/exports.

However, with North Korea in the grip of a food shortage, there are also suggestions his transformation is a more cynical attempt to gain sympathy from starving citizens.

To me this supports that the current world leadership does indeed view starving large swaths of the population as a viable model for implementing change.

Also, from the White House statement a day or so ago:

Congress could establish the new Critical Supply Chain Resiliency Program (CSCRP) at the Department of Commerce, which President Biden has proposed as part of his Build Back Better plan that is before Congress right now. The program would serve as a central node in the federal government for supply chain resilience, facilitate better coordination and planning across federal agencies to address vulnerabilities, and invest in critical supply chains where the private market has failed to allocate sufficient capital.

Some examples of the activities the new office could support include:

Mapping supply chains for critical industries: The U.S. government is trying to prevent disruptions in the supply chains for advanced energy and communications equipment. The CSCRP conducts a survey of firms in each industry, working with industry partners. The data and mapping from the survey allows the office to run stress tests for various shocks, including a cyber attack at a critical node, and run scenario planning exercises to facilitate greater preparedness across the private sector and government agencies to respond to potential shocks to a critical supply chain.

Suggests the US gov, at least, isn't above running wargame simulations to see what happens.

This is a further outline of what Biden wants to see:

Fifth, and finally, equity must run through everything that we do. We must learn from our historical mistakes. Prior economic transformations in the United States have not brought everyone along. By doing it different this time, we will enhance our economic competitiveness. We know that by prioritizing racial and gender equity we can reduce the yawning gaps in wealth and opportunity and unleash stronger growth. We know that by investing in all of America, particularly in those regions that have suffered from decades of deindustrialization, we can avoid further geographic entrenchment and polarization and unlock more of our innovative capability. And by ensuring labor standards for all and incorporating worker voice into the process, American industry will be more resilient for the long term. From investing in HBCUs and MSIs, in our R&D, to investing in regional manufacturing hubs, technology hubs, Manufacturing USA, ways to align investment in R&D, education and training, working with the private sector and bringing innovation to all areas of the—of the country, this is what it is going to take to build an economy from the bottom up and the middle out.

I had a difficult time developing opinions on the White House statement content because I'll agree with a lot of it, then they'll suddenly throw out something like 'we need do it equitably' and my brain short-circuits.

 

[northstar747]

It's not as insane as it sounds, to be fair. JIT is simply the logical conclusion of the streamlining of the manufacturing process. Keeping inventory around is expensive, both in terms of floorspace and maintenance. Having to keep less inventory means better profits, without cutting the important stuff like quality or quantity.

What is insane, however, is how in this clown world, it is apparently cheaper to ship your raw material from across the ocean and then ship the finished goods back, rather than manufacturing it on the spot. But I blame that more on how globalism has utterly distorted the supply and demand of local economies.

Sorry for the double post.

I lived in Japan and even did alittle work for toyota. about 12 years ago people were going nuts for toyota production system.

The guy who shaped toyota production system's philosophy (JIT was american in origin)

was Taiichi Ohno I would recommend this book by him

Amazon.com: Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production (Audible Audio Edition): Taiichi Ohno, Ralph Lowenstein, Taylor & Francis Distribution: Audible Books & Originals

Amazon.com: Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production (Audible Audio Edition): Taiichi Ohno, Ralph Lowenstein, Taylor & Francis Distribution: Audible Books & Originals

www.amazon.com

Okay so one really big benifit of not having stock dealing with face culture. You can use an inventory of stock to hind problems.

What toyota was able to do was change the source of sham. The shame is "YOU DEAL WITH DEFECTS NOW!! NEVER PASS DEFECTS UP THE LINE. STOP THE LINE AND FIX ALL ISSUES AS THEY ARE FOUND"

So if you have a defective part that doesnt fit. The line stops and all attention is directed not to the line stopping but to the issue. This does create a culture of quality

 

[Billy Beer]

@contradiction of terns

The UN have done it before. In the late 90's (IIRC) Kim Jong Il asked for international help from the UN because a bad year and plagued ruined his crops and brought famine to the country. The UN said they would only help if he did X (basically open his country to get butt fucked by tptb) when he refused, the UN said "tough tits then, your people starve", and hoped for a coup in NK.

Estimates vary but anywhere between 3 million and 30 million people starved to death as a result. That's the UN. The force that's meant to help people all over the world, regardless of politics, letting people starve to death.

Would I put it passed them to do it again? Hell No. Except now, the terms are "accept woke and globohomo"

 

[Corette]

A Brit joke meme I found. I love how the back of the car is filled with TP

Envy of TP-less slowpokes is such an ugly thing to witness.

 

[CaesarCzech]

Here from The Bugmen Union apparently we are already under supplied on Gas and Ukraine is starting to steal gas again. Just great

 

[JJLiautaud]

Shortage documentation:
I needed shoes for work and the store was out of them in my size, i live outside a major urban center in burgerland. But other than that i havent really noticed much year some random items are in low supply which happened in the before fore times or is flat out missing which didn't happen before.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

Were these gas lines back then just as bad as the gas lines in current-day Venezuela? There were also reports of gas actually running out at gas stations in Venezuela.

I've got several books written by Americans from that period of time - Dave Gingery Build a Alcohol Producing still for Fuel, and a collection of articals from Whole Earth News press about how to run engines of alternate fuels like Wood Gas, Hydrogen even some early mentions of electric quite intresting really people just looked at the old books they had around and updated them and modified engines to run on alternatives, that was easer with older cars.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

It's not as insane as it sounds, to be fair.

Any plan that requires things to work 100% of the time and never fail is fucking stupid.

Having to keep less inventory means better profits,

MUH PROFITS AND COSTS.

How about companies worry about actually providing a good service and product instead of having 1/3 of their shelves empty (pre Covid) because their Supply Chains are fucked to hell to try and force this Just in Time shit to work.

 

[Syntaxion]

consoomers on suicide watch

 

[teriyakiburns]

Any plan that requires things to work 100% of the time and never fail is fucking stupid.

Well yes, which is why Toyota's original JIT idea included assessment of where failure could occur and mitigation of potential failures. That means they do keep some inventory in hand for parts that are vulnerable to supply chain issues.

Everyone else got as far as "end inventory requirements" and stopped reading.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Everyone else got as far as "end inventory requirements" and stopped reading.

Par for the course for cooperate homos.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

Shortage :

I've been having a nostalgia craving, looking to order fruit snacks online.

Two check-phases ago, they were available.
One check-phase ago, they were out of stock for shipping, but I think available in store.
Today, the product listing is missing from the catalog.

Not sure location matters much given the shipping stock probably pulls from a larger radius. I'm specifically looking at a warehouse club.

 

[Urban Sombrero]

Here in the Mid-Atlantic they're already prepping for dumbasses to hoard toilet paper again. The shelves are half-stocked and they have signs telling people to limit your purchases.

Also didn't notice that Gatorade is out of stock in the big bottles until my dad pointed it out. Stock in the smaller bottles is fine.