It's the same in Ireland outside of Dublin, and significantly more expensive to boot - and on top of that despite getting 7% of the vote at the last election the Green Party get to force through all their carbon tax nonsense and other assorted lunacy which includes culling 1 in every 5 cows, as if Ireland reducing carbon emissions will somehow offset China outright promising to do nothing until 2060.
Sorry, your post was the first thing I read this morning and it pissed me off. Irish gas should be moderately more expensive than American gas because of shipping and demand issues. The rest is government screwing their own people to enrich themselves and help the elites.
The increase in price has very little to do with an increase in wages. Oats recently doubled in price, poultry prices are up, gas costs more, and every other input has increased in price.
I can't speak universally, but most e-books bought off Amazon can have the DRM stripped using a special Calibre plugin.
I just use libgen these days. They even have a couple unofficial apps for it in the FDroid repos.
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One of my concerns regarding these prepared kits and such falling scarce is the extreme litigiousness involved in any medical procedure - If someone performs an operation, and it doesn't go perfectly, malpractice suites are expected, but shit happen and the insurance will cover you - You can do everything right and have a procedure fail still. But if you perform an operation with a makeshift kit, now your opening yourself up to actually getting fucked because there's now a chink to say "It's not bad luck, you did it without the right tools". I can imagine a lot of doctors saying "Fuck it" and refusing to open themselves up to that liability outside of absolute immediate life-death operations.
I know Burgerland is insanely litigious, and I also have zero faith in the "justice" system of this country anymore, but it seems like it'd be a stretch for anyone to pull that off. We are (again, to the best of my knowledge) not talking about a situation where you need a 1/8" diameter Phillips head screwdriver and settle for a 1/8" flathead instead because it'll still work (if maybe not as well). We're talking about building the kit from scratch with the same products it would normally have if bought from the manufacturer, plus or minus substitutes that are identical in form and function but have a different brand name. Every potential substitute has to be vetted first by someone who knows wtf the item is and what it's used for before Supply Chain can get the okay to hammer out a purchasing agreement and begin stocking it.
Right now, yes - But if the manufacturer can't put out enough stock to keep up the actual prebuilt kits, then these improvised kits are just the loose parts in the market being assembled, the excess that was already produced. As this reserve continues to be drawn down, the substitutions will become wider and wider, and someone will put a foot down at some point and say "Can't/Won't do it with that". Whether it would work with it or not or if the substitution is far enough that it should have been stopped, is irrelevant - Justification doesn't perform surgeries. And once things grind to a halt, its gonna be a problem.
Ah, yes, now I follow you. Yes, you are correct. For right now, existing stocks of items are being gone through and eventually they will have to cast a wider and wider net for things. That will, at least hopefully, be a while in coming yet. The emails indicate secondary and tertiary sources for some things but they've not yet started looking farther than that. Keyword of course being 'yet.'
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A little 'powerleveling' here: I had to help a friend get some textbooks for their college classes. Most of those textbooks you could find on Library Genesis, but there were a few that I could not find and so they had to just buy second-hand.
Maybe the professors will skip their yearly textbook rewriting cash-grab? "2023 edition required! Changes from 2022 editon: replaced camel on cover with owl. Changed all occurrences of women to 'uterus-bearers'. Capitalized all occurrences of Black even when describing a color. Only $149.95. Required but will never be used."
In my own defense, I didn't really think I was talking to a normie. I'm on kiwifarms, as far as I can tell, you're all deviant turbonerds...
My monthly pet food order took a long time to fulfill. Now might be a good time to hoard and help kick this shortage into high gear.
Been having that trouble for a few months now. Had to switch brands a couple times because the old brands just disappeared for a while. Bought up a few months worth for all my zoo when I found some in stock and am keeping a close eye on my stash because it has only gotten worse.
Bupivicaine with Epinephrine has been unavailable in all but the smallest sizes for over a year now; pharmacy has had to assemble kits containing standalone vials/amps of each plus a filter straw. Now reasonably sized vials of bupivicaine are becoming scarce, lidocaine with epinephrine is unavailable in some concentrations, straight lidocaine vials are only available in very small or very large sizes. Pharmacy has been having to make their own epidurals and running out of materials to do even that.
