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

[George Lucas]

A feminine benis.

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

Also only cucks adopt.

So he pretends to be a mother by adopting some crackbaby and then cries about not being able to feed it?

Vodka helps babies sleep. I endorse your suggestion. If he’s a train then I bet he lives in an area where it’s easy to acquire fresh breast milk.

 

[benutz]

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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.

That looks like a couple of giants stacking shipping containers.

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*!

Spoiler: Off topic spergery

Sometimes I watch the schoolkids as they come home from school. It's actually rare that they don't have a phone in their hand, literally hunched over. You all know that evolution of man.jpg where man reverts to being a hunched creature again akin to apes. I wonder how many deformities we will see of children when they grow up. Every single fucking day. Every single fucking spare minute, hunched over a phone. They're probably watching porn as well. That's what 10 year olds do these days. That and a bit of snuff and gore. I wonder how many deformed minds of children we will see when they grow up.

The only time I've seen them not using a phone is when they are riding a scooter (push not electric) and even then I've seen more than one attempt to do it if that is actually possible. The saddest thing is seeing brothers and sisters or just friends walking along and all of them in their own little world on their phone. No chat, no talking. Each of them in their own isolated little bubble. Probably watching porn.

If I had a kid I would never allow them a phone at that age. I realise I'd be done for child abuse as it's all about what the kids want now, and more than that, what their real parents (the government) want for them. Which is for them all to be tracked 24/7. I've seen kids of about 6 years old with fucking phones.

Considering the big campaign we are having here in bongland about sexual abuse from children in schools, I wonder at what age does a child start sending unsolicited dick pics? Because apparently they do. I forget the name of the website now. Something must have gone very wrong in their childhoods if their main pursuit is pics of under-developed girls. I guess all that porn has already warped their little kiddie minds. And it's not just boys, it's girls too getting addicted to porn from a very early age. I forget the name of the website now with all that info on it, and I don't want to do a search and get added to even more lists.

 

[Billy Beer]

That looks like a couple of giants stacking shipping containers.

Spoiler: Off topic spergery

Sometimes I watch the schoolkids as they come home from school. It's actually rare that they don't have a phone in their hand, literally hunched over. You all know that evolution of man.jpg where man reverts to being a hunched creature again akin to apes. I wonder how many deformities we will see of children when they grow up. Every single fucking day. Every single fucking spare minute, hunched over a phone. They're probably watching porn as well. That's what 10 year olds do these days. That and a bit of snuff and gore. I wonder how many deformed minds of children we will see when they grow up.

The only time I've seen them not using a phone is when they are riding a scooter (push not electric) and even then I've seen more than one attempt to do it if that is actually possible. The saddest thing is seeing brothers and sisters or just friends walking along and all of them in their own little world on their phone. No chat, no talking. Each of them in their own isolated little bubble. Probably watching porn.

If I had a kid I would never allow them a phone at that age. I realise I'd be done for child abuse as it's all about what the kids want now, and more than that, what their real parents (the government) want for them. Which is for them all to be tracked 24/7. I've seen kids of about 6 years old with fucking phones.

Considering the big campaign we are having here in bongland about sexual abuse from children in schools, I wonder at what age does a child start sending unsolicited dick pics? Because apparently they do. I forget the name of the website now. Something must have gone very wrong in their childhoods if their main pursuit is pics of under-developed girls. I guess all that porn has already warped their little kiddie minds. And it's not just boys, it's girls too getting addicted to porn from a very early age. I forget the name of the website now with all that info on it, and I don't want to do a search and get added to even more lists.

It's an addiction. The users can't stop, won't admit there's a problem and the addiction affects their day to day lives. And it's not just kids - who can use the excuse of innocent, ignorance and upbringing, that are addicted, adults too. Ne'er a sadder sight seen than a restaurant filled with young couples, pondering over social media, who are so close, yet so far from one another. It breaks my heart and my mind.

 

[Sped Xing]

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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.

What is going on here?

 

[Desu Mountain]

What is going on here?

People stacking up piles of money literally worth less than the paper it's printed on.

 

[Sailor Kim Jong Moon]

A feminine benis.

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

Also only cucks adopt.

In my culture we use whiskey to nightcap our toddlers and grandma’s Benadryl flavored pancakes for Saturday morning breakfast.

 

[Sped Xing]

In my culture we use whiskey to nightcap our toddlers and grandma’s Benadryl flavored pancakes for Saturday morning breakfast.

Your culture is gross and bad.

Srstho what is it with people loading their children up on benadryl? That's not healthy.

 

[Sailor Kim Jong Moon]

Your culture is gross and bad.

Srstho what is it with people loading their children up on benadryl? That's not healthy.

There was a daycare that gave children Benadryl laced pancakes a few years back. Pretty sure they were arrested for child abuse

Most people that sedate their own kids are just lazy, don’t like their kids, or are addicted to drugs and want to get high in peace. Mostly the latter.

 

[benutz]

It's an addiction. The users can't stop, won't admit there's a problem and the addiction affects their day to day lives. And it's not just kids - who can use the excuse of innocent, ignorance and upbringing, that are addicted, adults too. Ne'er a sadder sight seen than a restaurant filled with young couples, pondering over social media, who are so close, yet so far from one another. It breaks my heart and my mind.

Feels for reals. I get you.

One man's addiction is another man's normalcy though. And when everyone is doing it, well, it gets classed in the latter, less offensive bracket. When I say 'man' I could mean 'kid' or 'woman', 'girl'.

Spoiler: Sense and Spergery

I do get that whole thing of checking your phone to avoid embarrasment. It's called 'anti-contact behaviour' and it happens in big citys where people are crowded together and want some kind of social excuse to avoid each other. I guess you have to live in London or Tokyo or New York for a bit to really understand it. It's not just protection from weirdos either, after a while in this place, being around people 24/7, you just really don't want to speak to another fucking human being, Who you know ultimately is in the same social class bracket as you. Hello? Riding the subway? Hardly a famous mover and shaker. A kind of shame kicks in. You know they know and they know you know. You are life's losers. Moving to this big city seemed like a good idea at the time, but hey, it hasn't really worked out for us has it? So best to avoid.

But a 10 year old child in beautiful idyllic surrounding in hobbit country has no excuse. They don't even come from bad families. They are well dressed and they are well spoken and pretty well behaved. So what is going on? So many dynamics.

Ne'er a sadder sight seen than a restaurant filled with young couples, pondering over social media,

And this is a very different dynamic again. I mean, what the fuck is going on here? I'm ready to believe all those kids aren't watching porn (I was being flippant) and I'm ready to believe they are catching up on their latest update of their very fave hobby - sportsball, stamp collecting, wtf. But in a restaurant? There can be no excuse. That is, as you say, the very definition of addiction itself. And it will come with all the hallmarks of the addicted: denial, bargaining, aggression towards those that point this out.

We've gone wildly off thread here. But in probably more than a few tentative ways there are parallels that lead back to the very premise of this thread. It's consumers gone wild! It's instant gratification and entitlement gone wild. I understand the pressures a lot of parents are under to give their kids phones, and let's face it, there is a pedo around every bush just waiting to enslave them as their poor helpless sex slaves, because that happens every day, every hour, on every street. Ahem. Yeah, I get it that they make good protection devices too and it gives parents a certain amount of comfort to be able to track their whereabouts. But at what cost? I don't know.

I wouldn't be posting so much on the internet if I was doing what I really wanted to do. When I am healthy and things are going good, the internet is the last fucking place I think of going. It's a salve for me when things aren't going so well. I've learned to wrangle it so it's actually healthy for me to use, and ironically, or unironically, I don't know, sites like KF whilst they destroy whatever faith I had left in human nature, it also somehow manages to restore it back and revitalise me to know that there are other human beings out there that aren't total consooomers, that have good values, and feel very much the same way as I do about some really important shit, even though we are very different and from very different cultures.

I think I have a sense of perspective. The people checking their phones over the breaking of bread need to fucking check themselves first. But it's encouraged and rewarded behaviour, not just by their social in-group, but by the governments that rule us so mercilessly as well. It's not going to change in the next decade.

 

[contradiction of terns]

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.

I mentioned the formula shortages a few pages back and got a lot of the same 'hur hur, women have titties, it's NBD' type stuff.

If you can find the type of formula you use, buy a 3-6 month supply of it. Whatever you can afford and/or need depending on how close you are to weaning.

If you find yourself in a serious bind, you can try The Human Milk Banking Association of North America, assuming you live in the continental US and it does not violate your ethics or religion to accept donated milk. It works like a blood bank, but with breast milk.

There are milk banks in other countries, but I am less familiar with how wide spread they are and how they work.

 

[Kornheiser]

Everything I noticed at the post office is teeming with parcels and shows no sign of stopping. I noticed before I left today someone ordered tp from Amazon and I just could not believe it. It wasn’t for a business but there has been a ton of growth in new housing and they order everything like crazy. You guys can ask me about what crap people are buying it’s not slowing down.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

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

I’ve never made that trip (wrong side of the country). Seems like it’d be a boring tract of deserts. At least you get some variety in the 10 to 14 hours between the South and New England.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

So uh, how much longer do you think this whole "used cars selling for more than you bought them for" trend is going to last?

Anyone in the industry care to weigh in?

 

[contradiction of terns]

Live in the pod, eat the... pod food?

Pod Foods bags additional funding to overhaul the grocery supply chain

The Series A also enabled the company to do more hiring, growing to 58 employees from 33 last December. Pod Foods secured a chief technology officer, Timothy Wee, who has a background from Google, Amazon and Walmart, and will also invest in data to build out new services and products, Lee said.

Delivery services rapidly grew over the past two years, driven by consumer expectations of getting items delivered faster, causing retailers to struggle to keep up with demand. As a result, Pod Foods saw both its revenue and customer base triple year-over-year since 2019, while helping retailers adapt faster to resetting products faster based on what sells and what doesn’t, Russell said.

“We’ve had to adapt,” Lee added. “What used to sell would be things like grab-and-go products, but when the pandemic hit, products selling more were like frozen items and beverages. We have to pivot quickly, but because we are small and nimble, we could quickly say what they wanted and get brands on board and keep retailers’ shelves stocked.”

The glorious future of all electronic vehicles hits a snag:

Analysis: Miners face talent crunch as electric vehicles charge up metals demand

Choices made by Little and other students foreshadow a talent crunch for the mining industry as it braces for a wave of retirements from aging workers. Later this decade, fewer graduates will have the skills needed to build and run mines producing lithium, nickel, copper and other metals to feed ravenous makers of electric vehicles, solar panels and other renewable-energy technologies.

Enrollment in U.S. mining engineering programs dropped 46% between 2015 and 2020, according to a survey by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SMME). The same problem afflicts major mining countries such as Canada, South Africa and Australia.

And for funsies a series of articles about the striking workers at Kellog and Reddit rushing to the rescue:
• Reddit users are taking up the cause of Kellogg’s striking workers
• A TikToker wrote code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after the company announced it would permanently replace striking workers
• Social media frenzy leads to crash of Kellogg's application website

 

[teriyakiburns]

So uh, how much longer do you think this whole "used cars selling for more than you bought them for" trend is going to last?

It's anecdotal, but my little runabout and the old 4x4 are still both valued higher than when I bought them (3 and ten years ago, respectively), at least according to autotrader. I've seen prices for similar vehicles double over the past year.

 

[glad vlad]

I briefly thought about dropping out of society and living in an RV earlier this year. The salesman told me that new RVs were currently cheaper than lightly used (1-3 year old) ones. People were buying a new RV, using it for year, and selling it for more than they’d paid. He said his industry expected this to continue for at least another year or two.

Another supply chain thing, this is the season that seed catalogs normally ship, and several small companies that sell specialty vegetable seeds have said that they can’t get the paper to print their catalogs. This is the cheap stuff, like newsprint.

 

[Kupier]

On RVs - I know someone who just bought one new because it was cheaper than used. He'll probably retire in it. He gets people knocking on his door to sell his property. California land is expensive. Sitting in the desert of Arizona for a few bucks a month isnt.

 

[George Lucas]

Live in the pod, eat the... pod food?

Pod Foods bags additional funding to overhaul the grocery supply chain


The glorious future of all electronic vehicles hits a snag:

Analysis: Miners face talent crunch as electric vehicles charge up metals demand


And for funsies a series of articles about the striking workers at Kellog and Reddit rushing to the rescue:
• Reddit users are taking up the cause of Kellogg’s striking workers
• A TikToker wrote code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after the company announced it would permanently replace striking workers
• Social media frenzy leads to crash of Kellogg's application website

God Reddit is so gay.

 

[Fatrick Hamlinson]

Since its relevant to anxieties over supply chains etc I'll chime in with this re: dog food and making your own to supplement or cover for shortages -

1. Anyone making the argument that dogs are carnivores because wolves are strict carnivores is retarded. Wolves are primarily carnivorous but absolutely do supplement their diet with shrubs and veggies if they are available. Also dogs are separated by wolves by enough to shrink them down to fucking purse size, does anyone really believe nutritional needs wouldn't change in that time?

2. Not all dog diets should be the same. Try to tailor your dogs meals to what they're doing and what they are. Slight PLing but I have two different breeds of dogs. My large "sled dog" prefers to get carrots, apples, red meat and chicken, long grain rice and bananas when I can get them. Lots of protein and high energy foods because he runs and is active a lot. My rat dog is much more sedentary and prefers just laying around, and has GI problems when he eats certain things. So he mostly gets chicken, rice, beans, peas and apples. And these are things dogs will love to eat, you just have to break them from eating kibble all the time. A lot of people give their dogs fish and tbh I've thought about giving the sled dog go some trout but Im weird about fish bones I don't want to risk them choking on one. Turkey is a seasonal treat for them that they love as well but remember to cook your dogs their own poultry without using salt or herbs. OH and if you can find them cheap in the store, plain boiled eggs can be a good treat for them but don't do it too often because cholesterol etc.

Most commercial kibble is actually horrible for use as the only source of food for dogs. It's loaded with corn and empty calories and fats and not near enough proteins or other vitamins and minerals.
The problem is that dogs who are raised on kibble will sometimes refuse anything else because to them if tastes great and is fattening. If you had a choice between eating your favorite pizza every day for life or eating new things in a balanced diet, and your brain was the size of a walnut, you might make the same type of choice. It doesn't take that long either and once they get accustomed to it they will want the veggies too. My rat dog actually picks out the green beans more than the chicken sometimes.

3. How this ties into global supply issues? Well, it presents a problem for a lot of people because they don't have the option to supplement store bought food. I strongly recommend researching some dog safe fruits and veggies and starting your own mini gardens. For meat you do have to be careful about hunting or trapping for it too, ALWAYS cook it like you would for a human, it sounds dumb but a house dog is going to be just as vulnerable to intestinal parasites and diseases as you would be when eating game.

4. Make use of coconut oil and pumpkin and stock up on it. Dogs can eat both of them in pure form and it will help with digestion, worms, stomach upset and constipation in place of medications. You can bake or cook pumpkin and I think they can even eat the seeds if you cook them soft enough and its good nutritionally as well.

As a last resort dog food for dogs with nutritional issues (like mine - high blood fat and damaged liver), I'd recommend hard boiled eggs. Apparently, they're better for dogs with liver problems than boiled chicken. If your dog has a high blood fat problem like mine, fish oil helps.

 

[Black Light Red Panic]

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.

Congrats on your baby evolving black skin by random chance and having an entire satan-worshipping international industry existing to support those, like you and your whore, unfit to live in the kingdom of god.