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

[Lorne Armstrong]

I do this for spices as well. Buy them in bulk, fill up small containers for daily use, refill as needed.

That’s the way to go. Spices are incredibly expensive in the small containers. Another tip is if you live in an area with a large hispanic population, always buy the “Mexican” brand spices, (and pasta too). They’re usually on a separate aisle even though they’re the exact same thing as their mainstream counterparts but they’re always a LOT cheaper.

Of course, you can make your own pasta too if you REALLY want to do it all, even dry it and store it instead of just buying it from the store. All it is is just flour, water, and egg, and some work. Dried pasta keeps a LONG time as well so when these items are on sale, stock up.

 

[Sped Xing]

I’ve looked into small electric mills and even hand crank mills a little bit, but haven’t gotten too much into it because flour, like rice and beans, can keep a really long time just in the sack if stored correctly and critters kept out of it. What I do is keep the bulk dry goods stored in a dark, dry, climate controlled area, then have large jars or in the case of flour a very large Tupperware container in the kitchen that I fill up and keep for using out of each day. When the jars/tub are empty, just go to your storage and fill them back up. That keeps you from having to go to a 50lb bag of flour every time you need a cup.

If you’re really worried about storage in your home, bags of flour/sugar store just fine in the freezer. A few 4/5lb bags can be stacked in there like bricks if you want.

I want to grow my own grain because I think it's neat. The prepper aspect is secondary.

I already plan on getting a grain drill so I can plant winter livestock forage. Harvesting a patch for human consumption is mostly nerd behavior.


So point being, I'm not overky concerned about maximizing efficiency.



Truck stop has everything except zero diet doctor pepper. I'm dooming right now.

 

[contradiction of terns]

that sounds semi-reasonable. i know a mormon family of 6 that drinks that much. but yes for the average US middle class family of a single parent and a mulato kid they probably drink 12 gallons of milk a decade.

Also where are they offering $150 an hour for snow plow jobs? is that guy in Maine. literally check every week and no job in a 100 mile radius pays more than where i currently work, unless i want to lie about a nursing degree and inject people with covid.

Article said Massachusetts. Goes on to specify:

Watertown is offering hourly rates up to $200 for anyone that has their commercial driver’s license.
Both Worcester and Lowell are offering rates as high as $155 per hour.
Meanwhile, Chelmsford and Sandwich have hourly rates as high as $135.

I should be getting a chest freezer today. Some quick mathemagic says storing flour enough to meet my family's carb requirements for a month would be something like 20 gallons, holy balls. I think I'll fill the freezer with meat, veggies, and milk, and see about some sealable buckets and oxygen scavengers for flour, rice, and the like.

I planted wheat very shittly due to time constraints, so hopefully it at least holds the soil together a bit, but I'll try again next year. Does anyone know anything about electric mills for making small batches of flour?

I know someone I can ask about this, but I have things I have to do so I won't be able to really dig into it until tonight. In the meantime my gut tells me you might want to check out Lehmen's. They have some deal with the Amish and sell a lot of farm equipment / gear for doing things the old fashioned way.

Edit: The artisanal baker I know got back to me waaaaaay quicker than I thought they would. They suggested the Mockmill 100 stone grain mill.

 

[Sped Xing]

Article said Massachusetts. Goes on to specify:

Watertown is offering hourly rates up to $200 for anyone that has their commercial driver’s license.
Both Worcester and Lowell are offering rates as high as $155 per hour.
Meanwhile, Chelmsford and Sandwich have hourly rates as high as $135.



I know someone I can ask about this, but I have things I have to do so I won't be able to really dig into it until tonight. In the meantime my gut tells me you might want to check out Lehmen's. They have some deal with the Amish and sell a lot of farm equipment / gear for doing things the old fashioned way.

Edit: The artisanal baker I know got back to me waaaaaay quicker than I thought they would. They suggested the Mockmill 100 stone grain mill.

Awesome! This is why kiwifarms is the only good social media.

 

[Jump]

They're redic expensive and the only folks I know who have them are rich restauranteur foodie types unforch

Huh?

 

[Hippopatumus]

I have that first one it's good

 

[Neanderthal Guru]

I have personally seen some of this: retailers are now filling the shelves with massive amounts of the items they can still get to make the store look filled out.

Retailers turn to bizarre tactics to cover up empty shelves as supply chain crisis worsens

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Live link to the Twitter post, since it's actually a video showing the ENTIRE STORE is filled with nothing but lawn chairs.
Archive just in case. Video doesn't work here.

The Britbongs have gotten slightly more devious and are putting out photos of products. If you look closely, the plastic bottles on the middle three rows (second photo) are actually print outs.

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That second image of the laundry detergent looks like they're just trying to prevent poors from stealing the shit. If you read up about laundry detergent thefts you'll see lots of articles about how they're a popular item to steal.

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

Huh?
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Buy used online. I bought a used chest freezer 7 years ago for $90, sold it a couple of months ago for $120 when I inherited a newer one. These are pretty simple appliances. There’s not much to go wrong on them, just make sure they’re not ancient. Spend around $100-$120 and buy one used off Marketplace or Craigslist or whatever.

 

[Art Kassul]

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1456705300178874368

Biden’s Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm bursts into laughter when asked about plan to increase oil production in America: “That is hilarious!”

 

[FAQnews Correspondent]

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1456705300178874368

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Just how many magic wands does Donald Trump have?

 

[Art Kassul]

Just how many magic wands does Donald Trump have?

They're making Trump look fantastic. People I know who hated Trump are noticing and clamor for him back.

 

[contradiction of terns]

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1456705300178874368

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Current theme of the Democratic party, apparently.

Spoiler: Cake sperg

There's some pretty hot debate over whether Marie Antoinette actually said 'Let them eat cake', but let's assume she did. It's not cake like you get at one of today's birthday parties. At the time, in France, 'cake' was the word for the gnarly, blackened substance caked onto the pan after the bread had come out of it. So the aristocrats were telling the peasants to eat sooty pan residue.

 

[mr.moon1488]

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1456705300178874368

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Current theme of the Democratic party, apparently.

Spoiler: Cake sperg

There's some pretty hot debate over whether Marie Antoinette actually said 'Let them eat cake', but let's assume she did. It's not cake like you get at one of today's birthday parties. At the time, in France, 'cake' was the word for the gnarly, blackened substance caked onto the pan after the bread had come out of it. So the aristocrats were telling the peasants to eat sooty pan residue.

lol, the modern ruling class is everything that they falsely accused the ruling class of olden times of having been.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

Generically, I feel like coupons have changed a little. There are more "Spend at least $X in one trip and get $Y off" coupons than usual... Usually I expect that kind of deal to be bound to a specific brand of product, not the whole store.

I also saw "Buy 2 products from this area and get a gift card" which I occasionally see... But usually in very specific departments. It's spreading a little.

Feels like there's an emphasis on getting people to spend money at all and to come back, fuck getting good deals on specific products.

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While I was window shopping I wandered into the book aisle. There weren't large quantities of any books, but all the books they still had looked so boring. (Only one I still remember was two copies of something by Sanjay Gupta). Then I realized the good books were probably the ones out of stock, so I checked for their labels as a kind of weird recommendation system.

The ones that stood out to me were

1. THINK AGAIN: THE POWER OF KNOWING
2. FRAGILE WORLD

Still gotta look up what those books are about, but I think I'm happy with this kind of shortage.

 

[Henry V]

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Current theme of the Democratic party, apparently.

Spoiler: Cake sperg

There's some pretty hot debate over whether Marie Antoinette actually said 'Let them eat cake', but let's assume she did. It's not cake like you get at one of today's birthday parties. At the time, in France, 'cake' was the word for the gnarly, blackened substance caked onto the pan after the bread had come out of it. So the aristocrats were telling the peasants to eat sooty pan residue.

Ben Shapiro's editor changed that image. It's actually this one. Still equally stupid through.

 

[jje100010001]

More commentary:

https://twitter.com/Tinkzorg/status/1456156752391573508

https://twitter.com/Tinkzorg/status/1456701775017353216

 

[contradiction of terns]

Ben Shapiro's editor changed that image. It's actually this one. Still equally stupid through.

Yuh, I know. I saw the news on it when it initially aired and saw the OG version. I just grabbed the photoshoped one because it seemed relevant in relation to the Secretary of Energy laughing hysterically that Americans can't afford gas (which a lot of them need to drive to their jobs, especially the poors).

That second image of the laundry detergent looks like they're just trying to prevent poors from stealing the shit. If you read up about laundry detergent thefts you'll see lots of articles about how they're a popular item to steal.


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Okay, you actually got me on this one. I wouldn't have even thought to look for the 'we have it behind the counter' label for something as mundane as shampoo, but I'm also not a Britbong. This is what I get for assuming the article I lifted the photos from did their due diligence.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Buy used online. I bought a used chest freezer 7 years ago for $90, sold it a couple of months ago for $120 when I inherited a newer one. These are pretty simple appliances. There’s not much to go wrong on them, just make sure they’re not ancient. Spend around $100-$120 and buy one used off Marketplace or Craigslist or whatever.

Even 30+ years old is still good if it's well maintained. I got one off my parents a few years back, for peanuts. Now it's full of meat and fancy pasta.

 

[Neanderthal Guru]

Yuh, I know. I saw the news on it when it initially aired and saw the OG version. I just grabbed the photoshoped one because it seemed relevant in relation to the Secretary of Energy laughing hysterically that Americans can't afford gas (which a lot of them need to drive to their jobs, especially the poors).



Okay, you actually got me on this one. I wouldn't have even thought to look for the 'we have it behind the counter' label for something as mundane as shampoo, but I'm also not a Britbong. This is what I get for assuming the article I lifted the photos from did their due diligence.

Found the source. It's from a viral tweet from some troon in Bongistan from a few weeks ago. Some shitty UK rag picked it up and ran with it for clicks. Lots of people in the mentions noticed the same thing I did. I just remember reading articles a few years back about how laundry detergent was one of the most shoplifted items in US stores, particularly popular name brand stuff. I'm not a Bong, I just happened to zoom in on the image and notice signs that indicated it was laundry detergent and figured they have the same issue over there.

Twitter thread (this troon runs a heavy blocklist so don't be surprised if you can't see it)
Archive

 

[CarlosDanger]

At my local Burger King yesterday, only 4 or 5 people showed up for work and none showed up for the afternoon shift. The people that were working were trying to do everything while people were getting pissed off at them, they apparently said fuck it and walked out. Similar thing happened this morning at the local Dunkin Donuts, only 1 employee showed up.