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

[Sped Xing]

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This looks like a tiny man standing beside a skillet full of chopped potatoes.

 

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Out in the travels through the north east with a few from school days, a few drinks in one of the salesman at an RV dealership let it slip they didn't have the steel framing on site and would not have any for awhile so they are sitting the frames on card board in the warehouse. by a few dozen drinks in my other friend who is in an inbound shift manager for one of their hubs said its looking pretty bare to the point where a hub is worrying. now if you don't know campbell supply does not mean not cheap shit soup (although it prob will) it means no parts to service the 18 wheelers. since the shit looks prime to go bad it brings fun fact 3. trailer thefts and robberies are seeing a bit of a spike. So if your in the north east now's the time to get all your supplies for when the fun starts before first snow fall.

For real though, take my word for what you will but nj and ny are massive shipping lanes and 2 refineries are next to the newark airport. maybe get your shit if you haven't. still 3d printer, chickens, and things to shine whatever buys the local horde off your back that you know how to use. just a thought.

Nicotine reserves have been made found no need to freak out yet.

 

[Male Idiot]

Damn it will suck if I got to rely on local nicotine.

Hungarian made stuff is the bestest ever...

Expect tobacco. That is the shittest ever.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

The thread's kinda dead so let's start betting. What will be the first critical thing a country/state runs out of and where will it happen?

 

[George Lucas]

I was getting coffee yesterday and the staff were announcing that there was no cream cheese, what a weird shortage. I went grocery shopping today, most things looked fine but the milk case was mostly empty. What’s causing the dairy shortage, I wonder?

I’ve been trying to buy a monochrome laser printer. Totally sold out in stores, very slim choices online. Is this still part of a shift to working at home? Chip shortage?

I think micro monochrome laser printers are just not made as much anymore. Color is now so cheap that it pushed out demand. I’m sure they still make the full size ones as the cost difference is still a large spread when you’re printing thousands of pages.

 

[Billy Beer]

The thread's kinda dead so let's start betting. What will be the first critical thing a country/state runs out of and where will it happen?

A smug sense of self satisfaction and it will hit a smuggy county or city, causing them to be bitch slapped so hard by reality, that it will knock the soy out of their mouths for months.

I don't think one single product disappearing would send anywhere in the Western world to go full South Africa, as everyone is pretty resiliant. No beer? Swap to wine. No fast food? Make your own. No smart phones or yearly electronics? The old stuff will do.

The only single entity I can think of that would cause mass panic if it disappeared, is access to the internet (Or electricity, obviously, but by that point it's game over anyway)

 

[wopirish]

A smug sense of self satisfaction and it will hit a smuggy county or city, causing them to be bitch slapped so hard by reality, that it will knock the soy out of their mouths for months.

I don't think one single product disappearing would send anywhere in the Western world to go full South Africa, as everyone is pretty resiliant. No beer? Swap to wine. No fast food? Make your own. No smart phones or yearly electronics? The old stuff will do.

The only single entity I can think of that would cause mass panic if it disappeared, is access to the internet (Or electricity, obviously, but by that point it's game over anyway)

So California with the constant brown outs and mass shoplifting? Imagine the optics if a bunch of people start mobbing the grocery stores in LA.

 

[SheerHeartAttack]

"Clearly the breadlines and food shortages are an alt-right conspiracy theory" -Bugman #252 3 months from now as his gunt gets dangerously small from starvation.

 

[Billy Beer]

So California with the constant brown outs and mass shoplifting? Imagine the optics if a bunch of people start mobbing the grocery stores in LA.

I would say yes, but the media have convinced people that brown outs are beneficial to the environment. And robbing a shop to get food for your starving family is noble.

 

[Hippopatumus]

The only single entity I can think of that would cause mass panic if it disappeared, is access to the internet (Or electricity, obviously, but by that point it's game over anyway)

That would be quite the happening. Though, at the same time, people would not have the opportunity to whip each other into a frenzy about it on Twitter.

When the Nashville bombing happened I was in a log cabin in the middle of nowhere and it completely cut us off from contact with the world for the rest of the weekend. It was pretty eerie. No TV, Internet, Phone, anything. We sort of assumed it was just us and went on about our business and didn't get too concerned about it.

The weird part is we got the news of the bombing and then connectivity died like an hour and a half later.. probably because the whole thing was a glow op.

 

[Billy Beer]

That would be quite the happening. Though, at the same time, people would not have the opportunity to whip each other into a frenzy about it on Twitter.

We're passed that. The internet, or the information or whatever it is, is now (and has been for a few years) an addiction. I don't use that word as a doom postery, dramatic, internet-lulz point winner, i use it because it IS an addiction. I'm addicted, less than most, more than some. Your average Joe though is completely fucking hooked. They're heroin addicts and don't realise it. Have you tried taking phones from people, asking them to leave them for even a short amount of time, or put new policies in the work place that bans phones?

Rode a bus or train lately? Sat in a cafe or works canteen? Everyone on their smart phones, muzzled by masks and seperated by Covid Safety Plastic (tm). It's an addiction and we're being fed more cocaine-laced herion every day, all for free*!

 

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We're passed that. The internet, or the information or whatever it is, is now (and has been for a few years) an addiction. I don't use that word as a doom postery, dramatic, internet-lulz point winner, i use it because it IS an addiction. I'm addicted, less than most, more than some. Your average Joe though is completely fucking hooked. They're heroin addicts and don't realise it. Have you tried taking phones from people, asking them to leave them for even a short amount of time, or put new policies in the work place that bans phones?

Rode a bus or train lately? Sat in a cafe or works canteen? Everyone on their smart phones, muzzled by masks and seperated by Covid Safety Plastic (tm). It's an addiction and we're being fed more cocaine-laced herion every day, all for free*!

Imagine the freakout from all the junkies needing a fix they didn't know they needed.

 

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Is this the step prior to burning it? I don't understand the giant skillet.

It's kind of weirding me out that the media went from discussing it seriously to making puns. The cream cheese shortage and chicken shortage articles both had headline puns too.

Libation frustrations: Holiday supply chain problems hit the beverage industry: Shortages of Bottles and cans, missing ingredients and trucking snarls threaten companies 'liquid assets.'

This is a cool article about the lust for truck drivers.

COLUMBIA, S.C. —
Dawn hasn’t broken when Jerrett Sellers spots a promising target in the mostly deserted streets of South Carolina’s capital: a lone truck driver climbing down from his cab at a gas station.

Sellers looks for encouraging signs. Shoulders slumped with fatigue? A clean and tidy appearance? Liking what he sees, Sellers moves quickly, approaching the driver with a piece of paper in his hand.

“You got a quick sec to talk?” he calls to the man. “We’re looking to hire.”

Sellers, 32, is a front-line soldier in the nationwide battle to combat a shortage of truck drivers that has become a serious problem for the U.S. economy as it struggles against the seemingly endless assaults of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As transportation manager for Merchants Foodservice, a regional trucking and delivery firm based in Hattiesburg, Miss., Sellers hunts service stations, convenience stores, truck stops, driving schools, and wherever else he might find potential recruits, even as his competitors are doing the same to lure away his firm’s drivers.

Sellers’ pitch includes $2,000 signing bonuses, medical and dental coverage, and even an extra $125 a week just for showing up on time.

 

[Male Idiot]

Medicine shortage would be hardest hitting.

Heart medicines for elderly, and insulin in most rich countries too.

 

[Simple Moving Average]

This looks like a tiny man standing beside a skillet full of chopped potatoes.

I apologize for the picture looking like it was taken with a 1930s shoebox camera. It was the best people could do at the time.

 

[Sailor Kim Jong Moon]

I just had to go to FOUR different stores to find my child’s formula brand. I can’t grow formula at home. I can’t make formula at home.

I might have to switch brands and hope my baby takes it. We use Similac for Christ sakes - not exactly an obscure brand either.

 

[George Lucas]

I just had to go to FOUR different stores to find my child’s formula brand. I can’t grow formula at home. I can’t make formula at home.

I might have to switch brands and hope my baby takes it. We use Similac for Christ sakes - not exactly an obscure brand either.

God gave us tits for a reason.

 

[Sailor Kim Jong Moon]

God gave us tits for a reason.

Great advice, I’ve never heard that one before. I’ll make sure to share it with other people who use formula like: adopted families, babies that have extended NICU stays, or women who have medical problems that lead to early weaning. Thank you for your input. It is truly valuable - can’t believe myself and other families have been wasting money buying formula this entire time when god gave us tits for a reason.

 

[George Lucas]

Great advice, I’ve never heard that one before. I’ll make sure to share it with other people who use formula like: adopted families, babies that have extended NICU stays, or women who have medical problems that lead to early weaning. Thank you for your input. It is truly valuable - can’t believe myself and other families have been wasting money buying formula this entire time when god gave us tits for a reason.

So which one do you have?

 

[Male Idiot]

So which one do you have?

A feminine benis.

Just use cowmilk and sugar and maybe a little vodka if it cries a lot.

Also only cucks adopt.