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

[Hippopatumus]

The fact that it isn't the GOP's sole, solitary focus, to repeal the "papers please" bull shit going on in America is all you need to know.

 

[Sped Xing]

>Austrian corporal
>no supply line issues
LMAO dude did Shlomo taking your gf rot your brain or something?

It is. The middle class (along with the few disaffected elites) typically provides the bulk of the organization and leadership for every single revolution in history. Without middle class leadership, you have a peasant uprising which lacks leadership and is easily crushed. Therefore, if you destroy the middle class, you make it far more easy to establish total control over the population, especially in this day and age with the technology the elites have available to them.

By "Best Austrian," I assumed he meant Christoph Waltz.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

Lll

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.

Id heard it was actually some kind of mistranslation where she meant some other kind of pastry and cake was chosen to translate it because there wasn’t really a substitute in English.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Lll

Id heard it was actually some kind of mistranslation where she meant some other kind of pastry and cake was chosen to translate it because there wasn’t really a substitute in English.

Brioche.

 

[CeleryStalks]

It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness. The King seems to understand this truth.

It is about as certain as anything in history can be that Marie Antoinette never said "Let them eat cake." Rousseau's Confessions are the first known source of the story, he tells it about "a great princess," and at the time of writing, Marie Antoinette was nine years old and living in Austria (plus, these are his memoirs, so if he's telling the truth when he says it was a story he knew, it must have been circulating even before that). Nobody attributed the quote to Marie until after the French Revolution.

More on topic, the city bus in my small midwest city recently reduced its hours because they can't get enough drivers.
The place a relative of mine works at recently changed some benefits to start for new hires on day one, and lifted their ban on hiring relatives of employees.
I work in the hospitality field and we are down to a skeleton crew, have had something like four new hires ghost us after a day or two, and my general manager is leaving for hopefully less-stressful pastures.
Gas is about $3.50 here.

 

[E. Knee as Weapon - Cont.]

So assuming 2 parents that means each of them is consuming almost a gallon of milk a week? I’d guess that they’re doing a bunch of baking and home cooking but you said they’re buying mostly prepared/premade/prepackaged stuff so home cooking is out except for warming stuff up. Maybe they’re eating Lucky Charms 3 meals a day or something?

Doesn't seem too crazy to me. Family of four here with two preschoolers, and while I rarely have milk outside of breakfast cereal in the morning, we still go through about 2 gallons a week. I don't see how consumption doesn't go up even more as the kids get older.

It's all breakfast and drinking and baking, and then on top of that is yogurt and cheese and butter. I think we probably spend more on dairy per week than almost anything else.

 

[Male Idiot]

This is why you go for nuclear. Nuclear is the best enegy out there.

 

[benutz]

Really this is caused by the abstraction that results from specialization and massive enterprise. It's not so much an elites vs. proles thing as it is a theory vs. praxis issue. Someone with tons of education who is a specialist may know a whole lot more theory than an illiterate black, but they have no practical experience outside of whatever niche (usually not a production one) that they're in.

In my own experience, theory-focused approaches always encounter practical roadblocks. Those barriers may be as simple as laying some money on the table (and I believe most 'management' types firmly believe that's how everything works), but in most cases it's more like money plus time plus logistics, and in some it gets a lot more complicated and the entire endeavor may fail or have to be restructured.

Think about the average trajectory that white collars or college educated people in general take. They start off as dumb kids just like everyone else, are crammed full of theory for twenty years, and then enter into the (abstracted) numbers and handshakes side of industry. Rich kids especially aren't gonna work dirty labor jobs, their practical experience will usually go no farther than playing sports.

To people with this trajectory, everything is a number. When they "overcome practical limitations" it's by way of paying and talking someone else into doing it, usually through several layers of intermediaries. After a lifetime of this, buoyed every higher into the fiscal stratosphere off the backs of labor, they are so isolated from the process of actually baking bread that they can't even conceive that there's more to it than simply planting a dollar (and that dollar comes out of thin air a printer).

Post Moar!

 

[Leaf Wage Slave]

It’s mostly unrelated to the Great Supply Chain Crisis, but guys from the backroom at the local Walmart have been told to expect a shortage of Toys this year for Christmas - not because the Supply Chain is fucked, but because the big shipment apparently fell off the boat and into the harbour in BC.

It’s unrelated, but it made me laugh - people trying to make up for last years Christmas being the drizzling shits thanks to the Coof are gonna be fun to deal with if that’s true…

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

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.

This shit happens in the Subway in my store, I feel bad for the guy because when I have to give people who watch the doors to offer people muzzles and the place is closed there is at least one person who comes over to me and complains and the conversation usually goes as such

"WHY IS HE CLOSED THIS IS BULLSHIT"
"Well he can't find people to work, he gets new people and they work for 3 days and quit"
"WELL HE SHOULD PAY THEM MORE"
"He just gave them a 3 dollar an hour raise this year, they made as much as I did until I got bumped up last paycheck"
"HE should still pay them more its not a livable wage"
"I made much less than 12 an hour and tips for the majority of my adult life."

 

[Glad I couldn't help]

So I was downtown for lunch today, and I decided to go get the local university newspapers, because I want some light comedy to read while eating my pizza.

Interestingly, they had an article reporting that university's bookstore is preparing for a book shortage for the next semester. They linked to a report from a printing company, noting:

• How the prices of pulp has increased from $700 per tonne to $1200 per tonne
• China has shutdown 279 pulp and paper mills and banned the use waste paper for recycling.
• Some mills in North America have closed despite high demand because the cost of other raw products is up and there is no way to turn a profit.

So there you go, the paper/book shortage has been confirmed, for me at least. Better get use to buying your book used or buying them online and hope they don't get 1984'ed, literally.

 

[Kupier]

Well, you can always rent a pdf of your book . Especially textbook pdf's going for $50+ dollars! What's that phrase I keep hearing recently? You will own nothing and you will enjoy it.

Edit: i pirate everything already lol

 

[Lil Miku]

So I was downtown for lunch today, and I decided to go get the local university newspapers, because I want some light comedy to read while eating my pizza.

Interestingly, they had an article reporting that university's bookstore is preparing for a book shortage for the next semester. They linked to a report from a printing company, noting:

• How the prices of pulp has increased from $700 per tonne to $1200 per tonne
• China has shutdown 279 pulp and paper mills and banned the use waste paper for recycling.
• Some mills in North America have closed despite high demand because the cost of other raw products is up and there is no way to turn a profit.

So there you go, the paper/book shortage has been confirmed, for me at least. Better get use to buying your book used or buying them online and hope they don't get 1984'ed, literally.

Explains the ever-greatening delays of print manga releases lately.

 

[Glad I couldn't help]

Well, you can always rent a pdf of your book . Especially textbook pdf's going for $50+ dollars! What's that phrase I keep hearing recently? You will own nothing and you will enjoy it.

Renting textbooks is honestly a bigger scam than even the severly inflated prices for buying them.

Also they probably aren't PDF now; they are too easily cracked. They probably use a proprietary app that limits your freedom to do anything with a product beside consuming it, like everything else in this brave new world.

 

[contradiction of terns]

I'm not gonna quote any of my fellow Marie Antoinette nerds because we're all right (and some of us, including me, wrong) in our own ways. I did find a great, concise article about the phrase, however, and it works nicely with the thing I came here to share.

Archive of article

‘Let them eat cake’ is evidently a catchy phrase, because it’s been recorded in use multiple times, dating back to sometime earlier than 1737. It was first ascribed to a Spanish princess, Marie Thérèse, who was the wife of French king Louis XIV, who reigned several decades prior to the French revolution. Marie Thérèse’s apparent use of the phrase was slightly different, being more in reference to crusts of bread left in the pan.

I was thinking of Marie Thérèse, apparently, who might have said whatever she said in Spanish (her being a Spanish princess and all) so the sentiment was apparently a bit different. The article also includes a bit of info about Rousseau and explains the Marie Antoinette brioche connection.

Marie Thérèse, in true bitch fashion, told her subjects to eat the burnt bread rind stuck to the pan. Marie Antoinette told them to eat brioche*, which is still hugely out of touch since high end brioche was mostly butter and no peasant could afford it.

Not to be out-done, Biden came out today and insinuated Americans are too stupid to understand the supply chain problem, using, ironically, an analogy about eating dinner at a restaurant.

Archive of Article

"If we were all going out and having lunch together and I said, 'Let’s ask whoever's in the next table, no matter what restaurant we’re in, have them explain the supply chain to us.' Do you think they’d understand what we’re talking about?" Biden asked.
"They're smart people," the president said, but he concluded the current crisis was a part of a "complicated world."

*Or the peasants at least started accusing of her doing so.

 

[Puff]

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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Minor issue, but my detergent aisle is missing dye. I want some to play with 3d prints. Reeeeeeeeeee.

 

[Ron Jeremy Stan Account]

Just visited my local Rite Aid again, same bare shelves in the same places. Only now they're finally addressing the elephant in the room that even normies can't ignore:

 

[Twitter Hate Mob]

Assuming you want a no-till drill, the cheapest way to get into one for a long time was to buy a worn out 1590 and rebuild it. With the way parts have been the last year, that's probably not the best idea.

I haven't seen a cherry dr pepper in two weeks.

Fueled up today and noticed somebody removed most of this 'I Did That' sticker. I miss sub $2 diesel.
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That's 116 litres - to put that in perspective, filling up the same amount would cost me the equivalent of $229.25

Americans have literally no reason to complain about fuel costs ever

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

This shit happens in the Subway in my store, I feel bad for the guy because when I have to give people who watch the doors to offer people muzzles and the place is closed there is at least one person who comes over to me and complains and the conversation usually goes as such

"WHY IS HE CLOSED THIS IS BULLSHIT"
"Well he can't find people to work, he gets new people and they work for 3 days and quit"
"WELL HE SHOULD PAY THEM MORE"
"He just gave them a 3 dollar an hour raise this year, they made as much as I did until I got bumped up last paycheck"
"HE should still pay them more its not a livable wage"
"I made much less than 12 an hour and tips for the majority of my adult life."

And if they started paying the Subway workers $25 an hour for a "livable wage" is that asshole gonna be willing to pay the $20 for a footlong prices?

Local Subway raised it it's wages over the summer and I was shocked and had to ask the kid if it was rung up right when my wrap meal was almost $20, normally it was like $14.

 

[Puff]

Don't complain because I want your country to be as shit as mine

Living in America requires a car except in a handful of cities and a decent amount of your budget is already gas if you don't live in a city at all. This wrecks our working class, the rural, and the farmers.