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

[Mooger Meng]

Jones Act. Yes, I had to look it up.

That's the one! Thanks fren.
I gave some of it a look over, and yeah, the section about foreign ships not being able to unload at multiple docks seems like it might be causing some not-quite-unexpected issues. I wonder if the companies or ships currently at anchor around L.A./Long Beach have contracts or something that dictate they must unload at said ports? It doesn't matter that they're the largest ports on the west coast if they can't actually unload anything, so why are there fuck near 100 vessels at anchor unless they are too stubborn or legally bound not to go somewhere else?

 

[LaxerBRO]

Not content with their horrible policies causing the Port of Los Angeles congestion, California now intends to start fining the vessels sitting offshore.

With no offense intended to CA Kiwis, the shitiest of shithole countries is less of a shithole than the Peoples "Democratic" California Republic.

All this will do is motivate shipping companies to sail at slower speeds and wait outside the 12 mile limit.

 

[tehpope]

Tucker on this thread's topic:

This is a powder keg waiting to explode. You can't have bread and circuses without one or the other.

The way Tucker talks about people walking off the job reminds me of the beginning of Dawn of the Dead 78 when people just leave the tv station even though the station manager is yelling at them to come back. This will eventually happen with Biden and co stomping their feet yelling for them to come back while the blue collar guys just flip them the bird.

 

[Jarolleon]

Tucker on this thread's topic:

This is a powder keg waiting to explode. You can't have bread and circuses without one or the other.

You know how in Swedish map games people will run their country into the ground to trigger an event whose resolution will give them some permanent modifier? I wonder if some people think the world really works that way. That they can simply engineer the course of history. Climate doomerism is likely the motive for such efforts, we've got a bunch of people who think Earth will be literally uninhabitable in 100 years if we don't go net-zero CO2 everywhere ASAP, and the only way to do that with current tech is to crash the standard of living (bugs, pods &c.) and have society be so regulated that consumer preference stops mattering. I know climate doomerism is mostly a grift, but our elite buying into it makes more sense than them being a bunch of supervillians trying to speedrun dystopia IMO.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

I gave some of it a look over, and yeah, the section about foreign ships not being able to unload at multiple docks seems like it might be causing some not-quite-unexpected issues

I doesn't say anything about foreign flagged ships not being able to service multiple US ports. It says they can't load cargo in one US port and unload it at another. Like Miami to Puerto Rico.

Here is a route that is serviced by a bunch of 20,000 TEU ships and visits every large port on the east coast as well as LA and Oakland on the other end.

 

[Male Idiot]

I also got a whole dollar raise from 5 to 6 per hour.
That was however propably due to covid restricted hours.

Coof reduced opening times to 50%, below the minimum wage as part time, instead of an okey full time.

Employees were unhappy, and management gave a raise and raised hours. Figure it is kosher to reward employees that kept up the work to keep things afloat and keep doing the work in hard times.

I got a trade in money identification and work for a local (((company))). They aren't nearly as bad as western companies though.

They give things like smoke breaks, will let you get a few days off if grandpa dies, and you can even browse the Farms when no work needs to be done. Pay is still bad, but otherwise it is very good.

 

[Sped Xing]

I also got a whole dollar raise from 5 to 6 per hour.
That was however propably due to covid restricted hours.

Coof reduced opening times to 50%, below the minimum wage as part time, instead of an okey full time.

Employees were unhappy, and management gave a raise and raised hours. Figure it is kosher to reward employees that kept up the work to keep things afloat and keep doing the work in hard times.

I got a trade in money identification and work for a local (((company))). They aren't nearly as bad as western companies though.

They give things like smoke breaks, will let you get a few days off if grandpa dies, and you can even browse the Farms when no work needs to be done. Pay is still bad, but otherwise it is very good.

How tf are you only making six dollars an hour?

 

[Übertroon]

Anyone else getting the feeling that american troops being deployed to Taiwan is to distract from internal US problems? I probably wouldn't feel this way if it wasn't for CNN or John Oliver using their airtime to justify why the current situation in Taiwan is more dangerous than beforr

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

How tf are you only making six dollars an hour?

Pretty sure he lives in some random Eastern European country.

Anyone else getting the feeling that american troops being deployed to Taiwan is to distract from internal US problems? I probably wouldn't feel this way if it wasn't for CNN or John Oliver using their airtime to justify why the current situation in Taiwan is more dangerous than beforr

"Anyone else getting the feeling that Argentine troops being deployed to the Malvinas is to distract from internal Argentine problems?" - Some Argie, 1982

 

[Corette]

Anyone else getting the feeling that american troops being deployed to Taiwan is to distract from internal US problems?

Real fun begins when Chinese troops are deployed into Taiwan to distract from internal Chinese problems.

 

[ZMOT]

I believe most, if not all, of the containers being left around are empties that no one is willing to ship back overseas... which confuses the hell out of me, since last I heard part of the problem was a lack of empties going back out, but that may have changed in the last few months for all that I know.

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/joe-biden-news-megathread.69229/page-3176#post-10312320

TLDR: shipyards are gridlocked, trucks/trains coming in with empty containers can't unload them, which means they can't take full containers out, full containers not going out means ships can't unload, loaded ships can't load empty containers... you see where this is going.

 

[Kramer on the phone]

Everyone here wants to talk about the problems and causes, but I would like to point out the future possibilities with their consequences:

1) Despite what I and many here probably want to believe, this is not a crisis due to vaccine mandates. The amount of people who have quit/will quit/fired/will be is not high enough in these fields. It may play a hand, but it unfortunately is not enough to cause this. Some here have acknowledged this, but the next part isn't really being discussed:

2) What are our options?

a) If things become fixed, everything will become worse. The quicker things return to normal, the quicker Vax mandates are likely to stick instead of disappear, the quicker the great reset begins, and the quicker the real distopia starts. Is food on the shelves really HELPING us? Should we really be MAD? at Biden or whoever for all this shit, or thankful for their incompetence?

b) Things get worse, is it really worse? Is survival of the fittest really going to make this country WORSE? It will be hard, I'm sure those here who are the wheelchair commandos don't wanna hear this, but the sooner shit gets hard the sooner the weakest links of society are gone, and with it the bs social rules they create that brought us to this point over the last 20 years.

For those here who are against vax mandates, how is option a) going to benefit us?

the problem is the "weakest links" just happen to be anyone not willing to act like a coon. So what would happen is everyone that isn't kike rich dies off quick. Thats the problem with SHTF, anyone that has lived in the ghetto the last half century is at a distinct advantage because they're used to the chaos. think about match making in a video game. like the 50v50 mode in COD Warzone, if one side is made up of players that were on it since day 1 and the other side is made up of everyone that currenly doesn't even know what the fuck i'm talking about. there will be a massive steam roll.

It reminds me of my relatives that lived in LA during the riots, them and their friends got their unregistered guns and protected their neighborhood... truck checkpoint and all, as for my ex's family, they just locked their doors in the rich part of LA and hid and hoped to god the phone lines didn't go out. Basically in a SHTF scenario the lolcows have a much better chance of surviving than we do just because they're closer to acting like a bunch of white niggers than we do.

 

[Sped Xing]

the problem is the "weakest links" just happen to be anyone not willing to act like a coon. So what would happen is everyone that isn't kike rich dies off quick. Thats the problem with SHTF, anyone that has lived in the ghetto the last half century is at a distinct advantage because they're used to the chaos. think about match making in a video game. like the 50v50 mode in COD Warzone, if one side is made up of players that were on it since day 1 and the other side is made up of everyone that currenly doesn't even know what the fuck i'm talking about. there will be a massive steam roll.

It reminds me of my relatives that lived in LA during the riots, them and their friends got their unregistered guns and protected their neighborhood... truck checkpoint and all, as for my ex's family, they just locked their doors in the rich part of LA and hid and hoped to god the phone lines didn't go out. Basically in a SHTF scenario the lolcows have a much better chance of surviving than we do just because they're closer to acting like a bunch of white niggers than we do.

Lol, Ghettoites don't grow food. "SHTF" means cities die on the vine.

Have you checked out the nightlife in Aleppo lately?

 

[Meat Target]

On the plus side, I was at Bass Pro last night, and the ammo shortage appears to have finally let up.

 

[Smoke Manmuscle]

All this will do is motivate shipping companies to sail at slower speeds and wait outside the 12 mile limit.

Lloyd's Loopers here we come.

 

[Kramer on the phone]

Lol, Ghettoites don't grow food. "SHTF" means cities die on the vine.

Have you checked out the nightlife in Aleppo lately?

our capitalist society means the corps would be able to pay someone enough to drive the trucks into the cities, beyond that with how many fatasses we have, people could survive on the shit dumb people have in their pantries. or the convenience stores or vending machines. it won't take more than a month before the ghettoites fuck up anyone stupid enough to have stuck around

 

[Sped Xing]

our capitalist society means the corps would be able to pay someone enough to drive the trucks into the cities, beyond that with how many fatasses we have, people could survive on the shit dumb people have in their pantries. or the convenience stores or vending machines. it won't take more than a month before the ghettoites fuck up anyone stupid enough to have stuck around

Oh, yeah, people who live in cities without the excuse of being too poor to live somewhere less awful would be totally screwed.

Serves them right. I hope the ethnic restaurants were worth it.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

So I was staring at the Halloween section while putting money in the Self Scan Machines yesterday and thought to myself.

"I wonder how many of those 70 Ships full of cargo have seasonal items that will be completely worthless after the season passes"

 

[FatalTater]

Why the hell is diet cola so hard to come by in the American Midwest right now? There are other sodas, but not diet cola.
Are there ships full of aspartame and caramel coloring floating aimlessly out there?

 

[Enig]

Why the hell is diet cola so hard to come by in the American Midwest right now? There are other sodas, but not diet cola.
Are there ships full of aspartame and caramel coloring floating aimlessly out there?

It depends on the brand, in IL the Pepsi gets nuked first in the order of Diet Caffeine Free > Diet > Max, while Coke hangs on a while longer because Coke is heretical trash fuck you. As for Dr. Pepper/7up products, the Pepper runs out of the new Zero kind before anything else and nobody cares about 7up.
Energy drinks are an interesting one. While Monster hasn't had any cans of fruit punch in months and varied flavors like pineapple are consigned to the four pack boxes, Red Bull has been going full stop to the point that cans of Total Zero reappeared for the first time in two years. Downside to this is the 8oz cans of Sugar Free always end up running out before anything else, and if you want a flavor of Monster besides boomer white, grape or orange you can get fucked bud.