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

[Kramer on the phone]

@the fall of man showed me this

https://twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1516851257381642244

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https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/u8r7a3/is_our_food_supply_chain_being_screwed_with_even/

this has to be deliberate, i don't know if anyone here did volunteer fire stuff or knows any firefighters but the big difference between them and the rest of emergency services is that they do not have a code to put out every fire started, if they get told to let the mother burn they do, and thats pretty significant because if they do get to a location on fire, they usually can put out even the most massive of fires. between advances in fire protection in building codes and response times they do pretty good at keeping the damage to a very small minimum.

The mob when burning down places would usually be able to tell whoever is in charge to stand down, which was usually the major reason wherever they picked to destroy got destroyed. Which just proves right now that thes are 100% deliberate fires. especially for warehouses, where because of the nature of the building, the government is huge on proper fire protection, unless you deliberately shut off the Fire suppression system its going to keep any non-intentionally set fire long enough for the firemen to get there and put it out. Beyond that, as our VFD can tell you, fires themselves tell a story and its near impossible to hide how a fire started or why. there are different types of fires with different needs for putting them out, grease fires for example are immune to your standard fire extinguisher

While I haven't looked into the trend specifically, I would like to point out there are literally massive food processing plants everywhere and that the sheer volume of facilities means that in a country the size of the US, you'll see a lot of normal accidents hitting them. A zero point one percent a year accident rate with fifty thousand of the things in the country is gonna give you plants going up in flame every week. The planes pretty bizarre though, I'll give it that.

case in point, because of what i said about building codes, if you look at the numbers this year is an extreme outlier on par with whats going on with the mysterious deaths in fort bragg right now. Obviously places burn down, just like how sometimes people fucking die during boot camp, maybe they land on their head scaling a wall or get electrocuted from faulty wiring or get tangled in rope and hang themselves. but if its happening 50x as often as usual it should bring up some redflags. There's a reason stock markets have circuit breakers, even though it could naturally happen that a stock or the entire market drops 7% or more in the span of a day, thats such a huge jump that we have to at least look into if some glitch happened.

I propose a new warlord and piracy period. I wouldn't be surprised if every other sociopathic millionaire and wannabe Alexander goes to some African failed state to carve out their own fiefdoms and blow shit up. After all, the developed world has too much surveillance and security to advance that way even if we hit a snag but it's entirely possible to run around wild as fuck in a Mad Max Wasteland like 21st century Africa is shaping up to be.

maybe you have a better opinion of the UHNWIs but my own anti-nerd bias makes me think guys who got rich from coding aren't the alexander types, and even if they had an inkling of that, stuff like burning man or practical shooting ranges will give you the experience without the danger.

 

[wopirish]

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1519057743650426881

Fucking called it, they'll almost certainly continue exporting food to the third world shitholes while letting americans starve.

 

[the fall of man]

Why Gemstones?

Part cool factor, part that certain rarer gemstones (Tanzanite) are single-sourced. I don't really worry too much about Africa as a source - all our devices have tantalum capacitors mined by Congolese warlords - but some of the world's gems may disappear from global markets, or oversaturate them (Burma Rubies, for example, are an excellent type which is affected by the ongoing unrest in Myanmar, though I think that one will lead to considerably more Burmese rubies on the market. And hilariously, Russian diamond prices (lol diamonda) are affecting India.

I'm not trying to get rich on anything in particular. I just try to have enough stores of wealth so I have a selection of valuable items to barter or auction off.

 

[Never Scored]

Part cool factor, part that certain rarer gemstones (Tanzanite) are single-sourced. I don't really worry too much about Africa as a source - all our devices have tantalum capacitors mined by Congolese warlords - but some of the world's gems may disappear from global markets, or oversaturate them (Burma Rubies, for example, are an excellent type which is affected by the ongoing unrest in Myanmar, though I think that one will lead to considerably more Burmese rubies on the market. And hilariously, Russian diamond prices (lol diamonda) are affecting India.

I'm not trying to get rich on anything in particular. I just try to have enough stores of wealth so I have a selection of valuable items to barter or auction off.

If you collect enough you can turn all yellow and shit and lightning will follow you when you run around and you can just take other people's shit anyway, but only until you run out of rings.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

I regret to inform you they have war gamed this. archive

 

[teriyakiburns]

I regret to inform you they have war gamed this. archive

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Because the solution to shortage-induced high prices is making the prices even higher.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

I went to a warehouse store to buy some aluminum foil. I get the restaurant supply volume and it lasts me about 3 years. MFW it was nearly $30 for 1000sqf.

 

[Ser Prize]

I regret to inform you they have war gamed this. archive

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Once again the gayest solution possible. Fuck this century.

 

[Sincere Sinner]

I'm good friends with a guy who does electrical engineering work in Australia, he's seen some shit;

Their purchasing guy spends most of his day hitting refresh on various websites until something pops up in stock. Stuff will arrive at a suppliers warehouse in Australia and then it will be sold out fifteen minutes later because there isn't enough shit to go around.

They've had a couple of jobs where the supervisor has said "look, we only have half the parts for this job, so just make as much of it as you can and then box it up and we'll finish it in three months when that one connector comes in". They've had an engineer who had to redesign a product to use a different transistor entirely because the original transistor might as well be made out of mythril. One particular item has a lead time of NINE YEARS.

They had one product that has a circuit board in it that is supplied to them by another company, based in China. The circuit board used black market components that were wrong and caused 200 mining fire alarms to fail. Basically, the component had the original number removed and a new number printed on it so that it looked like the correct part. There's really nothing you can do about black market parts since they're in China and they already made their money off their shonky components. The chinese manufacturer will just say "oh no, our supplier screwed us over! It's not OUR fault!".

Oh the joys of a global economy!

 

[Maurice Caine]

I'm good friends with a guy who does electrical engineering work in Australia, he's seen some shit;

Their purchasing guy spends most of his day hitting refresh on various websites until something pops up in stock. Stuff will arrive at a suppliers warehouse in Australia and then it will be sold out fifteen minutes later because there isn't enough shit to go around.

They've had a couple of jobs where the supervisor has said "look, we only have half the parts for this job, so just make as much of it as you can and then box it up and we'll finish it in three months when that one connector comes in". They've had an engineer who had to redesign a product to use a different transistor entirely because the original transistor might as well be made out of mythril. One particular item has a lead time of NINE YEARS.

They had one product that has a circuit board in it that is supplied to them by another company, based in China. The circuit board used black market components that were wrong and caused 200 mining fire alarms to fail. Basically, the component had the original number removed and a new number printed on it so that it looked like the correct part. There's really nothing you can do about black market parts since they're in China and they already made their money off their shonky components. The chinese manufacturer will just say "oh no, our supplier screwed us over! It's not OUR fault!".

Oh the joys of a global economy!

Rough times. Personally, when do you think things will get better? I know things are very bad but certainly things should recover by 2025 at least?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Odd that all those different food processing places would have fires so soon after eachother.

 

[Never Scored]

There are these steaks I used to buy from Wal-Mart. They came frozen in a box of 10, and they weren't top of the line steaks or anything like that, but it worked out to around $2 a steak they were nice little pre-tenderized/seasoned steaks to cook up with eggs or to cut up for stir-fry. Anyway, late last year they vanished and with the inflation I thought, "Oh boy, I'm never going to see those again."

Fast forward to a week or so ago. I'm at Wal-Mart and the steaks are back in stock and they haven't even gone up in price. I got a box and I'm about six steaks in and It seems they switched to poorer cuts of meat to keep the price from going up. Every single one so far has had a huge piece of grizzle in it. I don't think I got one with grizzle in it before. I think you're going to see more and more of this kind of thing where you get a product where the price didn't go up and the quantity didn't go down, but the quality cratered.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I'm good friends with a guy who does electrical engineering work in Australia, he's seen some shit;

Their purchasing guy spends most of his day hitting refresh on various websites until something pops up in stock. Stuff will arrive at a suppliers warehouse in Australia and then it will be sold out fifteen minutes later because there isn't enough shit to go around.

They've had a couple of jobs where the supervisor has said "look, we only have half the parts for this job, so just make as much of it as you can and then box it up and we'll finish it in three months when that one connector comes in". They've had an engineer who had to redesign a product to use a different transistor entirely because the original transistor might as well be made out of mythril. One particular item has a lead time of NINE YEARS.

They had one product that has a circuit board in it that is supplied to them by another company, based in China. The circuit board used black market components that were wrong and caused 200 mining fire alarms to fail. Basically, the component had the original number removed and a new number printed on it so that it looked like the correct part. There's really nothing you can do about black market parts since they're in China and they already made their money off their shonky components. The chinese manufacturer will just say "oh no, our supplier screwed us over! It's not OUR fault!".

Oh the joys of a global economy!

You'd think that eventually it will be cheaper for countries to make their own electronics than lose a fuckton by waiting for the Chinese to do it. But maybe I'm not smart enough as modern billionaires.

 

[JustSomeDong]

There are these steaks I used to buy from Wal-Mart. They came frozen in a box of 10, and they weren't top of the line steaks or anything like that, but it worked out to around $2 a steak they were nice little pre-tenderized/seasoned steaks to cook up with eggs or to cut up for stir-fry. Anyway, late last year they vanished and with the inflation I thought, "Oh boy, I'm never going to see those again."

Fast forward to a week or so ago. I'm at Wal-Mart and the steaks are back in stock and they haven't even gone up in price. I got a box and I'm about six steaks in and It seems they switched to poorer cuts of meat to keep the price from going up. Every single one so far has had a huge piece of grizzle in it. I don't think I got one with grizzle in it before. I think you're going to see more and more of this kind of thing where you get a product where the price didn't go up and the quantity didn't go down, but the quality cratered.

Every loaf of white or wheat bread I've bought for at least the last ~18 months has been just awful. Gritty, chewy, sometimes really undercooked and doughy in the middle. They even smell terrible. Like nasty old beer, which makes me think they all switched to some new cheap yeast. Doesn't matter what brand, I've tried several, store brands and name brands. So I learned to make my own bread, and am thinking about buying a bread maker to make it a bit easier.

 

[Never Scored]

Every loaf of white or wheat bread I've bought for at least the last ~18 months has been just awful. Gritty, chewy, sometimes really undercooked and doughy in the middle. They even smell terrible. Like nasty old beer, which makes me think they all switched to some new cheap yeast. Doesn't matter what brand, I've tried several, store brands and name brands. So I learned to make my own bread, and am thinking about buying a bread maker to make it a bit easier.

I use a bread maker. It's a great investment if you eat any amount of bread.

 

[JustSomeDong]

I use a bread maker. It's a great investment if you eat any amount of bread.

The best bread I ever ate came out of a wood fired mud-brick oven at a pioneer days kind of event while I was a teenager. I've been legitimately toying with the idea of building something similar. I love good bread.

 

[CaesarCzech]

There are these steaks I used to buy from Wal-Mart. They came frozen in a box of 10, and they weren't top of the line steaks or anything like that, but it worked out to around $2 a steak they were nice little pre-tenderized/seasoned steaks to cook up with eggs or to cut up for stir-fry. Anyway, late last year they vanished and with the inflation I thought, "Oh boy, I'm never going to see those again."

Fast forward to a week or so ago. I'm at Wal-Mart and the steaks are back in stock and they haven't even gone up in price. I got a box and I'm about six steaks in and It seems they switched to poorer cuts of meat to keep the price from going up. Every single one so far has had a huge piece of grizzle in it. I don't think I got one with grizzle in it before. I think you're going to see more and more of this kind of thing where you get a product where the price didn't go up and the quantity didn't go down, but the quality cratered.

Great Reset. At this point id gladly let Chinks win i mean we will suffer either way might as well let the elite suffer as well.

 

[CaesarCzech]

Blackrock owns the building you live in or communists do. Pick your poison.

If its the South American style communists atleast there wont be grooming so lesser evil compared to Blackrock, plus they propably collapse sooner. MFW When this Globohomo world makes me defend commies.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

If its the South American style communists atleast there wont be grooming so lesser evil compared to Blackrock, plus they propably collapse sooner. MFW When this Globohomo world makes me defend commies.

They used to be, but pretty sure now it's all about gender ideology and minorities just like the other Western commies (except for Maduro, he makes both right-wingers and left-wingers seethe). Case in point, the fat Redditor running Chile now.

 

[Keystone]

The best bread I ever ate came out of a wood fired mud-brick oven at a pioneer days kind of event while I was a teenager. I've been legitimately toying with the idea of building something similar. I love good bread.

Learn to make pretzels and sausage, too. The equipment to do it right is a small investment but it's worth it.