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

[Lorne Armstrong]

lol, now I'm hearing there's a fucking rice shortage too. Holy fucking shit. Good thing the adults are in charge, right? Massive supply chain shortages, the worst inflation in years, massive uptick in violent crime and looting in cities, increased fuel prices....but at least there's no more mean tweets!11

A 25lb bag of rice at Sam’s is less than 10 bucks right now, (I just checked). Rice is very easy to store for long periods. Problem solved.

 

[Sped Xing]

I've got one hell of a stockpile of food at this point just because I've been taking it home instead of throwing it in the dumpster when they tell me to discard fresh stuff.

I mean, seriously fresh food that just has like the barcode misprinted or the wrong label. It's kind of amazing.

I need another freezer. I'm thinking of building a walk-in freezer under a metal building as a stretch goal.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

lol, now I'm hearing there's a fucking rice shortage too. Holy fucking shit. Good thing the adults are in charge, right? Massive supply chain shortages, the worst inflation in years, massive uptick in violent crime and looting in cities, increased fuel prices....but at least there's no more mean tweets!11

Don't forget Russian and China signaling they are going to expand, the absolute failure in Afghanistan, the January 6 Boomers being held for over a year without charges in reportedly vile conditions, thousands of leeches rushing across the boarder.

 

[Billy Beer]

I stocked up on 10kg of rice when this thread started getting going. Add to that a shit load of soup, tinned fish, pasta and a freezer full of meat. Anyone not stocking up at this point deserves all they get.

 

[Sped Xing]

I just want to say that people who say "food is just fuel" are massive autists with no notion of how to live.

If the difference between 1.75 a lb margarine and 3.25 a lb butter affects your budget so as you notice, I feel bad that the "war on poverty" has been such an abject failure. I mean, damn. I'm not picking on that lot. I think a witch would turn me into a furry monster in a castle if I did.

And it's not like I don't like anything cheap. Sardines are great. Peanuts are good. I eat rice multiple times a week.

If you honestly like margarine better than butter, well, I can't argue taste. You're just wrong and probably a they live.

 

[Groserr]

I thought ahead of this whole thing, stocked on guns and lots and lots of ammunition. This country will collapse very fast once the executive starts to fail.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Well not everyone drinks beer just to get drunk. It often starts out that way when you are young, but often when you get older you develop an actual taste for beer and some people even get into kind of a beer drinking ritual where it is just normal and comforting to drink a beer after mowing the lawn or while watching the ball game. People like that who maybe develop health issues or whatever and can't drink alcohol anymore still sometimes want the beer taste and beer drinking routine. I think maybe the 0% ABV beer is for them.

0% ABV nowadays is mostly for Muslims, it's very popular in the Middle East and the beer companies who own the brands are marketing it big time in that community. I once went into a convenience store in the part of town where the Muzzies live, they had a giant section for it.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

If you honestly like margarine better than butter,

They are different things that are useful in different ways.

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

0% ABV nowadays is mostly for Muslims, it's very popular in the Middle East and the beer companies who own the brands are marketing it big time in that community. I once went into a convenience store in the part of town where the Muzzies live, they had a giant section for it.

There's actually quite a few microbreweries in Australia who are putting out really low percentage beers now. Offhand I can think of a couple which are below 1% and actually taste good. It's the middle of summer here, and if I drive down to the beach to go fishing or a swim, it's nice to be able to have a few beers without worrying about losing my licence.

On topic, my local bottle shop is running out of blended Scotch. Having just moved halfway across the state, I am a poor at the moment, so I'm not shelling out for single malts. I asked why they didn't have the basics (Johnnie Walker, Dewar's, Grants) on the shelf yesterday and the guy said they're just unavailable. This is at the biggest alcohol chain in Australia (Dan Murphy's).

If whisky disappears, I might start a riot of one.

 

[DejaThoris]

A 25lb bag of rice at Sam’s is less than 10 bucks right now, (I just checked). Rice is very easy to store for long periods. Problem solved.

The 20lb bags of rice at Walmart are normally about $8 here in Michigan.

A while back I bought a bunch of buckets with the lids you hammer on and threw a 20lb bag of rice plus a desiccant pack in each one and sealed the lids on. I figure if I need it some day I will have it, if I don't, it was cheap as fuck anyways.

 

[Sped Xing]

They are different things that are useful in different ways.

Butter is for eating, while margarine is for lubricating wagon wheels.

 

[Never Scored]

Butter is for eating, while margarine is for lubricating wagon wheels.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

I've been waiting for that to start happening.

If you don't mind eating Christmas themed stuff well into March you should be set if you visit a Grocery Outlet type store, or the clearance wall at other stores. I am not a sugar cereal person myself but I shop for someone who likes to indulge and bought like 10 family size boxes of Christmas Capn Crunch for $8. Clothing too- like to get a novelty sweater now and then? Buy it now for $14, the nice thick $65 sweaters didn't come in until Dec 30 and they are all on clearance.

lol, now I'm hearing there's a fucking rice shortage too. Holy fucking shit. Good thing the adults are in charge, right? Massive supply chain shortages, the worst inflation in years, massive uptick in violent crime and looting in cities, increased fuel prices....but at least there's no more mean tweets!11

So that would explain the Absolute State of my Asian grocery store last week...

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

If you don't mind eating Christmas themed stuff well into March you should be set if you visit a Grocery Outlet type store, or the clearance wall at other stores. I am not a sugar cereal person myself but I shop for someone who likes to indulge and bought like 10 family size boxes of Christmas Capn Crunch for $8. Clothing too- like to get a novelty sweater now and then? Buy it now for $14, the nice thick $65 sweaters didn't come in until Dec 30 and they are all on clearance.

Oh no I don't need to buy any of it, but I was looking at our half empty seasonal Aisle during the Chrismas Season and was thinking to myself. "I wonder how much of this shit is stuck on a boat..and will show up in 6 months"

 

[feral cat #6385]

I see this argument on Reddit a lot as a mean for autists to argue why they need to eat out and they can't cook at home. It doesn't take anything like quality of food into account, the fact that your time only has monetary value if someone is willing to pay you for that time or the fact that I can do something else like watch a youtube video while I do a repetive task like cutting potatoes. It's also worth pointing out that your labour cutting the potatoes is not taxed whereas your labour working at a job would be.

Besides all that, it also does not take 30 minutes to cut a pound of potatoes into fries or hashbrowns. I don't know what the other guy is talking about, but I am a potato enthusiast who has grown hundreds of pounds of potatoes a year for several years as a hobby. Takes me no more than five minutes to cut a pound of potatoes into fries using one of these dollar store cutters:
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Anyway, forgive the sperging. You're probably just joking around anyway. This argument triggers my spidy senses and sends me into full blown internet autism mode.

Now you are triggering me with you use of unitasking kitchen devices and lack of soak time.

You have to soak the potatoes in salt water to get rid of the starch so they will fry nice and crispy. You should do that for a couple hours.

Also fuck fry cutters. Those are unitaskers. Use a mandolin or cut them by hand.

Went to two grocery stores yesterday and they both looked pretty good but for a few things. One had no onions or spaghetti noodles and the other had big gaps in the cracker, sports drink, cat food, and cold medicine sections. Meat section was mostly fine.

Pictures of second store:
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That's more cat food than I've seen in a month!

 

[Kujo Jotaro]

Cross posting between here and the global depression 2022 thread because I think it's relevant in both.

The gist of the video is Rafi breaking down the uptick in producer price inflation, apparently this statistic is hitting all time highs in many countries around the world. He explains what this might mean for the consumer(higher prices one way or another) and why this is another signal of the coming economic reckoning.

 

[cybertoaster]

I thought ahead of this whole thing, stocked on guns and lots and lots of ammunition. This country will collapse very fast once the executive starts to fail.

When you look at the data its basically whats been happening since the 70's and yet where's the revolution? where's the big insurrection? the elites hanging from lampposts?

It wont happen, shit will just keep getting slowly but surely worse and 99.99% of the people will be too focused on keeping their heads above water to actually rebel in any way.

 

[OrangeJuliusEvola]

Why are they coming out with 0% ABV beers? What's the point?

Shit's basically made for guys like me doing dry January. I crave the taste of beer as much or even more than the alcohol buzz. Erdinger NA Beer is the best BTW.

 

[MysticLord]

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When you look at the data its basically whats been happening since the 70's and yet where's the revolution? where's the big insurrection? the elites hanging from lampposts?

It wont happen, shit will just keep getting slowly but surely worse and 99.99% of the people will be too focused on keeping their heads above water to actually rebel in any way.

People are holding on because there is still some faith in elections. If the libtards blatantly steal 2024 or God help them 2022 as they did 2020, then their goose is cooked.

And "collapse" doesn't mean we're all shooting each our neighbors and roasting them for dinner. It means the 1/6 capitol storming, but state capitols and us simply ignoring the feds. They need us to survive, we don't need them. They can threaten us all they want but without us they are powerless, and without our taxes and warm bodies in the military they have nothing.

What you need to do is talk to your neighbors and touch grass. Build local organic networks for essentials, and start noting who in your neighborhood isn't reliable or is an enemy. These are the people who will go on shooting sprees when the shit hits the fan, whom you'll need to have a plan to deal with their meltdowns.

 

[888Flux]

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When you look at the data its basically whats been happening since the 70's and yet where's the revolution? where's the big insurrection? the elites hanging from lampposts?

It wont happen, shit will just keep getting slowly but surely worse and 99.99% of the people will be too focused on keeping their heads above water to actually rebel in any way.

If there is a cascading economic catastrophe you would be surprised how quickly the government's ability to project power would decrease. Now this wouldn't be a "collapse" but it would be widespread civil unrest, rioting, and it has the potential to create a power vacuum.

Think about how dependent the average person is on the state. What would happen if suddenly truckers went on strike? What would happen if municipal water facilities were shut down due to a cyberattack? The world we live in is fragile and people are less prepared for an event like this now then they were decades ago. Globalization has made it so every moving piece of the economy has to function without fail constantly. Otherwise it begins to break down. The GloboHomo house of cards is falling down. We are seeing the beginning of what I believe is going to lead to a global depression. All of these shortages and supply chain failures at some point are going to cascade into each other resulting in further disruptions. If a major economic catastrophe to the scale of COVID were to happen anytime soon with the current pressure on supply chains you would absolutely see some type of "collapse".

An example of just how fast this can happen is the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack that happened last year (https://archive.md/TV7Qi). There were no major disruptions to the pipeline but the sheer panic buying led to empty gas stations in the South and even in states unaffected like Pennsylvania. For about 5 days every gas station I saw had lines of cars or was completely empty. Here is a website that was tracking fuel shortages when it happened. It took around a week after the news of the pipeline becoming operational again before gas stations were normal.

If you want a example of how hypercentralized the economy is, look at semiconductors. Two companies account for over 80% of the ENTIRE production of modern ICs and semiconductors. The first is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and the second is Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. LTD, or Foxconn Technology Group. And there is ONE company capable of manufacturing the specialized UV photolithography equipment for fabricating semiconductors and that is ASML Netherlands. Last week, their largest factory in Berlin caught on fire damaging expensive equipment and setting back production. And none of this includes the transportation, warehousing, distribution and fulfillment that has to occur before these products get anywhere. Thousands upon thousands of miles of shipping, sorting, and processing. There are two companies producing 80% of all semiconductors found in your phone, your car, your laptop, and your Amazon Basics 5G SmartFridge . And there is one company on the entire planet that produces the hardware to fabricate semiconductors.

It's not a "what if" at this point. It's a when.