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

Should the title be re-worded to expand the scope of the thread?

  • The US Trucking Crisis of 2021 works fine

    Votes: 25 9.4%
  • The US Logistics Crisis of 2021

    Votes: 30 11.2%
  • The US Transportation Crisis of 2021

    Votes: 7 2.6%
  • The US Supply Chain Crisis of 2021

    Votes: 35 13.1%
  • Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021

    Votes: 206 77.2%

  • Total voters
    267
  • Poll closed .
Word on the street is that truckers are gonna strike in Ohio.

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This guy elaborates a bit more:


Hold on to your hats, folks...
The worst possible thing you could bring to a protest is something that constantly tracks you.
 
No incidents so far

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What’s the fruit snack thing about ? Really that’s a weird one
Soyboys and nu males have a weird love for fruit snacks. It’s fucking bizarre. They will literally breakdown and start foaming at the mouth if they don’t have their fruit snacks. Chicken tenders have a similar affect.

It’s like their bodies need artificially flavored crap made from the byproducts of motor oil to maintain their low level of function.
 
I do not understand this protest.

Truckers plan to disrupt innocent lives in order to throw a tantrum about vaccine mandates?

Picket the workplace. Hassle the bosses.

Leave the public roadways that are used by other people alone.
In the case of truckers, wouldn't the highways be their workplace? It just so happens their office is shared with general traffic. If done well, their protest can put enough pressure on those who are too complacent about the vaccine mandates and the governing bodies trying to enforce the mandates. However, I doubt their protest will even go to that length.
 
Time will tell. 'muricans will finally know what "Operation Escargot" means.

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The Hamilton County prosecutor says he would arrest and jail any truckers who participated in a shutdown.

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Now why is it that BLM protesters could shut down highways in summer 2020 without fear of arrest? hmmm.

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So, being a SW Ohioan, where was going to go down, I can confirm that there was an increased State Patrol presence on the roads Monday morning. Also, I would not fuck with Deters, Cincinnati had one night of issues during the Summer of Love and then nothing because he absolutely was willing to prosecute people. They all went up to Columbus instead, not that there's anything worth smashing in Columbus.

It's a good place to shut down the highways though. Cincinnati and 71/75/the 275 loop are the major highway routes over the Ohio River.

I highly doubt Walmart is just trying to temporarily cover up for empty space due to supply shortages. They couldn't be going that far, right?
Walmart is coasting on inertia, it's mostly run by idiots at this point, you would be shocked at the shit they think are good ideas. Sam Walton, at this point, would just start a competing business and put them out of business if he was still alive.
 
I’m a computer janitor for a public school in Las Vegas. I’ve been waiting for printers we ordered 5 weeks ago. In the past I’d get them a few days after ordering.

Theres also a shortage of bus drivers. Every day we have multiple busses that are 30 min. late to drop off or pick up kids. It’s only getting worse too.
Our order of 200 printers was originally scheduled to be done by august of 2020. As of writing we've gotten 12 of them. Our current district printers are over a decade old and we're squeezing every drop of life we can out of 2 million+ page copiers. I spent all day today reconditioning a single copier for service with, i shit you not, superglue for the fragile plastic parts.
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.
There's a fertilization of reducing supply to near zero to save money. Nothing and nobody works on contingency anymore. Toyota came up with JIT, to eliminate the "excess supply" that was costing them millions of yen due to japan's small yet diversified automotive fleet. America/ Europe saw this, and saw "eliminate supply" instead as a way to save millions. The result is the bastardized western JIT system.
I could shit on modern cars for hours easily, especially domestics like Ford and GM. I genuinely think vehicles peaked in the 2000s and 2008 is when they started going to shit. Even then, cars were starting to get complicated, but most issues could be figured out with a standard obd2 scanner.
Gramps said the same thing about 2000s cars, how cars peaked in the 80s and all these fan-dangled computers were going to make things impossible to repair. Modern era cars can be tweaked with almost 0 effort and part sharing has become common again. My jetta shares most of its parts with almost everything else VW makes, spares are dirt cheap, and the enthusiast community has cracked the ECU wide open years ago.

The real challenge is finding a car/brand with good third party support.
. Add yeah, I agree Japanese brands have started to slip, but they managed to avoid completely embarrassing themselves like GM did during the recession. Seriously, sit in a 2008-12 Gm vehicle - cheap interiors and shit engines was their staple, still kinda are.
Chevys run like shit longer then most cars run at all
 
Our order of 200 printers was originally scheduled to be done by august of 2020. As of writing we've gotten 12 of them. Our current district printers are over a decade old and we're squeezing every drop of life we can out of 2 million+ page copiers. I spent all day today reconditioning a single copier for service with, i shit you not, superglue for the fragile plastic parts.

There's a fertilization of reducing supply to near zero to save money. Nothing and nobody works on contingency anymore. Toyota came up with JIT, to eliminate the "excess supply" that was costing them millions of yen due to japan's small yet diversified automotive fleet. America/ Europe saw this, and saw "eliminate supply" instead as a way to save millions. The result is the bastardized western JIT system.

Gramps said the same thing about 2000s cars, how cars peaked in the 80s and all these fan-dangled computers were going to make things impossible to repair. Modern era cars can be tweaked with almost 0 effort and part sharing has become common again. My jetta shares most of its parts with almost everything else VW makes, spares are dirt cheap, and the enthusiast community has cracked the ECU wide open years ago.

The real challenge is finding a car/brand with good third party support.

Chevys run like shit longer then most cars run at all
Modern Chevys are alright, still have shitty brakelines, but their recession era cars a notorious for their shitty engines that blew up before 100k. One famous engine is the 3.5l i5 is the colorados that blew the head off at 90k, or the northstar (i think) engines in the impala that would explode at the timing chain. They also had that whole dexkill coolant fiasco thrat kind of shattered a lot of people's opinions on them
 
I was able to get some Amoxocillin from one place I used before but again they knew me and I knew them (I also drink with the named Pharmacist on the regular)
Fyi, both amoxicillin and cephalexin are available without a prescription for use on fish/aquariums. Same stuff, made in the same factory, as the prescription versions.
 
It goes off your medical records, prescription history with them etc...

Thank you for covering this. I was on the verge of addressing it the last time schedule 2 drugs came up but then I got sick. Schedule 2 drugs covers things that can kill you if you OD or which are commonly sold by unscrupulous patients (ritalin, percoset, xanax). In their base forms these things are meth, opium, and benzos. They're just street drugs. You can live without them, and you're going to have to because no doctor is going to sign a script for 3 months of percoset unless they want to eventually get caught and in deep trouble.

If your medications are life-saving you should, in theory, be able to get a doctor to give you 3 months worth, especially if you make a strong case that you're worried the meds will run out and you won't be able to get them.

To this end; I went to fill my antibiotic script today and was told they are out and I will have to go back

Was at a bar last night, and the waitress said they were out of mozzarella sticks.
I had a pic of the out of stock mozz sticks from the local grocery store, but I'm having a hard time accessing it, so here's some other empty shelves.
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Ain't no Sunkist anymore
Now its gone from aisle 4
Anytime I go to buy-y-y-y-y
I like you. You're funny.

Fyi, both amoxicillin and cephalexin are available without a prescription for use on fish/aquariums. Same stuff, made in the same factory, as the prescription versions.
I hate to be THAT person, but if you're in a bind and the feed store isn't out, penicillin and amoxi can be had there. They're usually for livestock so much like ivermecin you'll want to make sure to check the dosage amounts and not take too much.


@Ahriman Thanks for contributing so much. I'm going to see about moving some of the trucker strike info to the OP.
 
More and more gaps in shelves in a big city in Bongistan. Even Waitrose puts notes about "temporary lack of xxx due to supply issues". Meanwhile Raab proposes a perfect solution- this will surely solve all our trouble- give this man a Nobel peace prize! Immediately!
 
I do not understand this protest.

Truckers plan to disrupt innocent lives in order to throw a tantrum about vaccine mandates?

Picket the workplace. Hassle the bosses.

Leave the public roadways that are used by other people alone.
Nobody will care about gay workplace picket, especially if news outlets are ignoring it (and they will). On the contrary, if wagie will show up late to his cagie and won't be able to consoom product due to organized traffic jams, he'll be pissed, but will also start paying attention. So will corporations that lose profits and the gubmint, which now has to deal with displeased wagies and execs.
In the 90s, Russian government have started to listen to miners only after they blocked Trans-Siberian railway (the only railway that connects European and Asian parts of Russia) for a week. Strike where it hurts.
 
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I do not understand this protest.

Truckers plan to disrupt innocent lives in order to throw a tantrum about vaccine mandates?

Picket the workplace. Hassle the bosses.

Leave the public roadways that are used by other people alone.
Truckers are known for being low iq tards for good reason .
 
Truckers are known for being low iq tards for good reason .
Remember when some Australian trucker was saying that they were totally gonna have a national strike and shut the country down and everyone was freaking out about it? And then nothing happened? Truckers talk a lot of shit but don’t back it up, is what I’ve seen.
 
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Just noticed this at my local supermarket. This is new.
Didn't everyone take up baking back when the Covid lockdowns first started or did social media lie to me?

And I know that blocking roadways is to get attention for the cause but I will never support that shit. Leave innocent travellers alone.
 
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