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

Should the title be re-worded to expand the scope of the thread?

  • The US Trucking Crisis of 2021 works fine

    Votes: 25 9.4%

  • The US Logistics Crisis of 2021

    Votes: 30 11.2%

  • The US Transportation Crisis of 2021

    Votes: 7 2.6%

  • The US Supply Chain Crisis of 2021

    Votes: 35 13.1%

  • Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021

    Votes: 206 77.2%
  • Total voters
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Hippopatumus said:
Razor blades are a high-density, high-margin item that is never going away. The prices are just going to go up. Feather blades (the best in the world) are made in Japan and are not going anywhere.

That said, prices are definitely quite elevated. Checked my order history, and when I first starting buying Feathers they were $23 a pack and my order the other day was $40. Nearly double. I keep a couple years worth on hand so I'm g2g for a while, but if the prices keep going up I'll have to start reusing blades. Normally I use a fresh blade for every shave. The horror.

BTW if you shave, and you don't use a double-edge razor, you need to get a double-edge razor. Even with today's prices my cost per shave is around 50 cents all inclusive. Last vacation I grabbed a Mach 3 and it felt like shaving with a cheese grater.
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Is the anything that people won't be faggot weebs about?
 
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Ruin said:
The powdered kind is frequently used to cut meth and coke.
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thats the more likely answer, there is literally no reason the blacks and spics couldn't breastfeed, their tits are already huge and saggy, plus if you don't push out the milk it eventually hurts (like blue balls!)
 
Once you try shaving with a double edge razor you can never go back to those shitty, overpriced, razor bump inducing Schick/Gillette cartridges.

I find Feathers a bit too sharp and aggressive. The Gillette blades made in Russia are all fantastic. The yellow and green 7 o'clocks are my favorites.

Astra and Kai blades are good alternatives to the Russian Gillettes.
 
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PFM said:
If only those bastards would keep their masks on! :shakes fist:
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honestly, fuck (((mandated))) masks. itchy, acne inducing muzzles.

but people in dense urban areas are nasty, unwashed creatures who breath through their mouths and don't call out sick until they've already infected half the place.
pl, i have won masks for smog, fires, and heavy allergen days, crowded transit rides long before rona. i get 110% less sick/can breathe better, i dont bring anything home to my family, and i dont wear it unless i want to.

its funny that these people are one (((mandated))) handwashing and mask away from not being human petri dishes of illness.
 
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So it seems that AliExpress has figured out reasonable shipping rates for cheap tat like cocktail forks for mom and dual-jet cigarette lighters for uncle, but I guess I can go fuck myself for still wanting that touchscreen TFT display module to ship for less than $50, huh

Also how the fuck are Raspberry Pi 4Bs still mythical artifacts of bygone times only spoken of in fond remembrance
 
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spastic_bag said:
So it seems that AliExpress has figured out reasonable shipping rates for cheap tat like cocktail forks for mom and dual-jet cigarette lighters for uncle, but I guess I can go fuck myself for still wanting that touchscreen TFT display module to ship for less than $50, huh

Also how the fuck are Raspberry Pi 4Bs still mythical artifacts of bygone times only spoken of in fond remembrance
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I find most electronics have the cheap line and the expensive line to show up quickly. Just ordered a Mini-ITX case for only a few bucks in shipping. The downside is it will arrive by Christmas. And if that vendor doesn't, try one of the 37 others. Or try finding the item on eBay or Banggood.

There were 4Bs available for a while after introduction, then it went to hell. Apparently there are a couple Twitter accounts who you'll find stock alerts like this one: https://rpilocator.com/

Luckily I'm good on my 3b 3b+ and 4b collection, I'd still like a Zero 2w to play with though.
 
Some months ago, when i noticed there was a Raspberry Pi shortage, it finally did get me off my ass to create a, "RetroPi" i had been planning to do. So, I can thank the shortage for that, it reminded me that I had one in a box someplace.
 
Menotaur said:
Just as shit was starting to get better some things I buy from china through retailers just got delayed.

I just got told due to China shutting down factories that my parts will be back in stock...in February 2023.

China must want to die economically.
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No, they want US to die economically, that's why they're holding out lockdowns as good policy (which seems to be working on our elite, since Shanghai isn't being condemned despite being pure human misery the likes of which are not found outside of a select few cities in Ukraine now) and using it to add to our supply chain woes, further harming our economies. China knows they're fucked, and they're taking us down with us, you know, the plan since they put sick people on international flights back in 2019 (and probably earlier, when they covered up the release of the virus and let the World Military Games go on in Wuhan in fall 2019).
 
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In Libia news
Well Europe gets fucked another oil shipper gets shut down due to protestors and politics nobody mentions why they are protesting. Makes me thonk if anyone speaks sandnigger can tell us what is happening in there actually??

Well shieeet buckle up boyos


Russian oil output down 7.5% in April so far - Ifax cites source

For anyone unfamiliar once oil production goes offline it gets harder to get online

Roughly 1 milion barrels less

Interfax said Russian oil and gas condensate output stood at 1.392 million tonnes per day on average in the first two weeks of April, down 7.45% from March.

In barrels, output declined to 10.2 million per day (bpd) from 11.01 million in March. (Reporting by Reuters; editing by John Stonestreet
 
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Freedom Fighter said:
In used car news, my dad bought a truck a few days ago.
10k. For a 15 year old Ford, 165k miles.
Thank god for my $500 (2017 price) pile of shit that just keeps running.
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wew thats bad, for context I was looking for a truck right before Covid (got lucky) and 10 year old f150s with 100,000 miles and some rust would go for about 10k. Your father probably would have paid 5k for his truck then.
 
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Hippopatumus said:
If you're struggling NOW, before things even really kick off, you are doomed. DOOMED.
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A lot of people are financially retarded. Deliberately ignorant, I'd say. People who refuse to pay any attention and make up any financial shortcomings with a credit card. One of my friends is really bad for that, she's a rolling consumerist black hole of money. She refuses to track any of her expenses, saying money stresses her out so she just wants to ignore it. She's also a fan of retail therapy. Its not a good mix.
 
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