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

[Sped Xing]

That’s not prepping. I keep a good amount of nonperishables. Probably not 3 months, but enough to work out a contigency plan, which is all you really need.

A good litmus test is how you feel about the stock market or some other positive correlating index. If you find yourself getting giddy about it going down or it appearing that it might go down, you’re a prepper.

Preppers don't give a shit about the stock market. All they care about is buying 3-6 decades worth of MREs (shelf life: 3 years) and hoarding hundreds of guns.

 

[Hippopatumus]

That’s not prepping. I keep a good amount of nonperishables. Probably not 3 months, but enough to work out a contigency plan, which is all you really need.

A good litmus test is how you feel about the stock market or some other positive correlating index. If you find yourself getting giddy about it going down or it appearing that it might go down, you’re a prepper.

The average person has around three days worth of food in their house.

If you have 3-6 months in your house, which is hundreds of pounds, you are at least prepper-adjacent.

 

[Sped Xing]

Non-lolcows usually have at least a shelf of cans and a five pound bag of rice. If you eat all that in three days, I think you're fat.

 

[teriyakiburns]

That’s not prepping. I keep a good amount of nonperishables. Probably not 3 months, but enough to work out a contigency plan, which is all you really need.

That's literally prepping.

 

[Male Idiot]

Non-lolcows usually have at least a shelf of cans and a five pound bag of rice. If you eat all that in three days, I think you're fat.

Yep. That is just keeping your favourite rice band in stock in case you are too lazy to go to the store again. It is a chore.

I got a pantry full of jam*. I hate jam, my mother eats it but makes more than she eats. But it is sugar that's good for a few years. Better than grass anyway.

* Around 15 liters of it at least. Can't recall how big the jars are exactly, between 0.5 to 1 liters and there is like 30.

 

[the fall of man]

OT: I once drove from Vegas to San Fran. 14 or so fucking hours. When I looked on the map of the US, i had moved |-------| that much. Almost the same length as the most southern point to the most northern point (Minus islands) of the UK

That's a six hour drive mate. Pedal/metal.

That’s not prepping. I keep a good amount of nonperishables. Probably not 3 months, but enough to work out a contigency plan, which is all you really need.

A good litmus test is how you feel about the stock market or some other positive correlating index. If you find yourself getting giddy about it going down or it appearing that it might go down, you’re a prepper.

I get giddy about the market going down because I'm massively leveraged against it

 

[spastic_bag]

I got a pantry full of jam*. I hate jam, my mother eats it but makes more than she eats.

My grandma has, as of Sunday's count, 57 jars of jam in her pantry. Apparently, making jam is something one is "supposed to do", regardless of how much is consumed.

At least it keeps her busy.

 

[Male Idiot]

My grandma has, as of Sunday's count, 57 jars of jam in her pantry. Apparently, making jam is something one is "supposed to do", regardless of how much is consumed.

At least it keeps her busy.

Jam does last longer than usual and is quite energy rich, so your grandma ain't stupid. A habit propably left over from hard times.

The more sugary it is, the longer it lasts and the more energy it gives when consumed, so win win.

 

[Billy Beer]

That's a six hour drive mate. Pedal/metal.

San Diego not San Francisco, my bad, I get them mixed up. and not exactly Vegas but [redacted]

It was a helluva drive and I had covered close to no ground on the scale of the US

 

[DavidS877]

San Diego not San Francisco, my bad, I get them mixed up. and not exactly Vegas but [redacted]

It was a helluva drive and I had covered close to no ground on the scale of the US

It's okay, we all know it was Pahrump. A place whose primary line of business is exactly what the name of the 'town' implies.

 

[George Lucas]

The average person has around three days worth of food in their house.

If you have 3-6 months in your house, which is hundreds of pounds, you are at least prepper-adjacent.

The average person must eat an absurd amount of food.

 

[Knight of the Rope]

A good litmus test is how you feel about the stock market or some other positive correlating index. If you find yourself getting giddy about it going down or it appearing that it might go down, you’re a prepper.

I'm up for being baited, so I'll take this one.

As someone who actually is giddy about the current state of the stock market and the VIX index has me hard as a rock right now, how does that put me on the same level as someone who is stockpiling food/bullets/pornography/etc? I'm not buying up useful shit like food and resources, I'm buying up airy-fairy 'promises' and IOUs and pieces of companies.

My understanding of proper prepping is that they could be fine, for at least a few months anyway, with civilization itself falling to pieces around them. On the other hand, my whole plan relies on the 'system' (or some facsimile of it) returning to normal on a quick enough timescale that I can make short-term profit and better my position. If civilization gets anywhere close to collapsing in my case, it's game over: nobody's going to give charity to a ruthless capitalist pig like myself in whatever New World Order emerges from an actual collapse.

 

[Hippopatumus]

The average person must eat an absurd amount of food.

No, calories are just that big of a deal.

Most people don't notice because we live in an time of ridiculous abundance. Your Starbucks and your Carls Jr and your 1 meal at home each day add up to hundreds of pounds over months.

I never really understood this until the lockdowns in 2020 and I was eating every meal at home. The physical weight of food we went through was actually incredible.

 

[Übertroon]

Still have people bitching about there being no PS5s available

I'm more concerned about why there are no PS5s available

 

[tehpope]

I guess we can close the thread, because Biden said the crisis isn't happening! Just a seasonal thing.

 

[Sped Xing]

No, calories are just that big of a deal.

Most people don't notice because we live in an time of ridiculous abundance. Your Starbucks and your Carls Jr and your 1 meal at home each day add up to hundreds of pounds over months.

I never really understood this until the lockdowns in 2020 and I was eating every meal at home. The physical weight of food we went through was actually incredible.

OTOH, if you want to get by like a sicilian peasant on 4 tablespoons of olive oil and one pound of wheat a day, that comes out to under 8 sacks and 6 gallons. To be authentic, you'll also be wanting a 50 gallon drum of wine, of course.

Point being, if you have a spare bedroom, you have enough space to stockpile stores to keep your family alive, if not happy or healthy, for a year or more.

I'm not saying that's a sane thing to do, just that "hundreds of pounds" sounds immense the way the media always reports "5,000 gallons spilled!" when that's one truck load.

 

[Michael Janke]

I guess we can close the thread, because Biden said the crisis isn't happening! Just a seasonal thing.
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i wonder if Obama is secretly embarrassed to be associated with this man.
he's either demented or insane. i dont know which is worse, but ignoring the plight of the average citizen cant end too well.

 

[George Lucas]

I'm up for being baited, so I'll take this one.

As someone who actually is giddy about the current state of the stock market and the VIX index has me hard as a rock right now, how does that put me on the same level as someone who is stockpiling food/bullets/pornography/etc? I'm not buying up useful shit like food and resources, I'm buying up airy-fairy 'promises' and IOUs and pieces of companies.

My understanding of proper prepping is that they could be fine, for at least a few months anyway, with civilization itself falling to pieces around them. On the other hand, my whole plan relies on the 'system' (or some facsimile of it) returning to normal on a quick enough timescale that I can make short-term profit and better my position. If civilization gets anywhere close to collapsing in my case, it's game over: nobody's going to give charity to a ruthless capitalist pig like myself in whatever New World Order emerges from an actual collapse.

I’m very much an abstractionist. A prepper is fundamentally someone who invests significant, life-altering capital to prepare for scenarios whose probability of happening within a lifetime are too low to economically justify the investment in the first place. Therefore preppers always lose by definition, because if some apocalyptic scenario does happen, then a person isn’t prepping in the scope of that event because it falls outside of the definition of a prepper (in hindsight). Determining if someone is a prepper in real-time is thus an estimate, as one cannot definitively know if someone is a prepper until he dies.

 

[contradiction of terns]

I'm up for being baited, so I'll take this one.

As someone who actually is giddy about the current state of the stock market and the VIX index has me hard as a rock right now, how does that put me on the same level as someone who is stockpiling food/bullets/pornography/etc? I'm not buying up useful shit like food and resources, I'm buying up airy-fairy 'promises' and IOUs and pieces of companies.

My understanding of proper prepping is that they could be fine, for at least a few months anyway, with civilization itself falling to pieces around them. On the other hand, my whole plan relies on the 'system' (or some facsimile of it) returning to normal on a quick enough timescale that I can make short-term profit and better my position. If civilization gets anywhere close to collapsing in my case, it's game over: nobody's going to give charity to a ruthless capitalist pig like myself in whatever New World Order emerges from an actual collapse.

I mean, I'd spare you a can of tuna and a box of Kraft mac, but I'm also the world's crappiest capitalist despite thinking capitalism is pretty cool.

There ya go. Why yes, we're doing this on purpose. What are you going to do about it?

Continue to channel Upton Sinclair's angry ghost and hope that in the post-apocalyptic future I can get an internship with Tim Pool or something. Seems like as good of a time to develop an unrealistic pipe dream as any.

 

[Manimal House]

I guess we can close the thread, because Biden said the crisis isn't happening! Just a seasonal thing.

Ok Joseph, so how come the supermarket has zero broccoli in stock for the first time in my life? What, is the Jolly Green Giant on unemployment insurance too?