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

[Tsukasa Kadoya]

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.

>implying the Chinese aren't in bed with the WEF

 

[Glad I couldn't help]

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.

And what if, because of supply chain shortages, there are no bread makers left?

 

[Bananadana]

And what if, because of supply chain shortages, there are no bread makers left?

Use a normal oven and standard baking utensils like a normie.
Its not like bread is some special rare thingy that cant be baked there.
Break makers just make it easy to make bread with bread specific features like special modes,
timers and generally more handholding (and less manual work) than you would get using an oven and separate recipe. Makes making bread in general less of a PITA. (get it)
Also makes everything a lot more reproduceable so the bread tastes the same every time, even if you are a bumbling retard when it comes to cooking.

But you only really want one after figuring out that you actually like self-baked bread anyways. And for that i would actually recommend starting in a normal oven.
Just tastes kinda different from store-bought bread and while i think its generally better, your mileage will obviously vary. That being said, still warm, fresh is just neat as fuck.

At least i think that's how this stuff works, haven't actually baked bread myself in a decade or so.
Also, cant help but think that at some point people will ask how to bake cookies without a cookie-baker.
That good 'ol oven can make/bake almost anything my friends. Not just useful for dealing with undesireables and fairytale witches.

 

[Never Scored]

And what if, because of supply chain shortages, there are no bread makers left?

It's actually pretty easy to just make it in the oven. It's just a pain in the ass to clean up after.

 

[JustSomeDong]

And what if, because of supply chain shortages, there are no bread makers left?

Fuck it. Why even live anymore...

But seriously, at the moment, amazon has plenty to choose from, were I to go that route. But I think a nice brick oven would be cool on my patio, so I may go that route. I could do pizza in it, too, and I make a mean homemade pizza.

 

[Ruin]

I had to go to four different stores to find instant coffee yesterday.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

>implying the Chinese aren't in bed with the WEF

To be more precise, which members of the CCP are in bed with the CCF while the remaining members fight against it?

 

[General Disarray]

We have a breadmaker and I use it to do the messy part of kneading the dough and the first rise. Fresh rolls straight from the oven with a hearty pasta dish or soup are heavenly in the winter.

In re: coffee, I get Sumatran 2 lb. whole bean for $19 which hasn't changed in the past year. Whereas from the same company, the same amount of their Central American blend is $47.00. That better be some damn good coffee!

 

[Tsukasa Kadoya]

To be more precise, which members of the CCP are in bed with the CCF while the remaining members fight against it?

Any dissenting members are most likely dead.
China doesn't fuck around.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

It's actually pretty easy to just make it in the oven. It's just a pain in the ass to clean up after.

Yeah, bread dough is a bitch to get off of the bowls and utensils and dries like a rock. However, I still make some sort of bread product two or three times a week. I just try to be as fast as possible getting the used bowls and utensils in the water to soak. For rolling out, not all breads require this, like focaccia and pizza bianca. These are fucking delicious and though focaccia takes a long time and is definitely worth it, pizza bianca is a good fast substitute for it and you can also use it as a general pan pizza base. I did this on Friday and it was AMAZING pizza.

You don't need an outdoor pizza oven to make good quality pizza. I highly recommend a pizza steel. It can make an oven very hot when properly preheated and there is no risk of it breaking like a pizza stone. If you have the space for a wood fired stove, go for it! But if not, just get a steel.

Pretzels are fun to make because you should be using lye to dip them in. Yeah, you can use baking soda, but for real, lye is much better. Food grade lye is cheap and you can use it for lots of other random shit like making soap or unclogging your drains or running random science experiments.

Bagels are stupid easy to make.

Sourdough should be cultivated, then you have an endless supply of yeast if you need it. Literally anyone can do this, it just requires mixing water with flour, lightly cover, and waiting a few days to a week at room temperature to see signs of fermentation. If mold grows, it is trash. But if it is bubbly and smells yeasty or even slightly like alcohol, it is good, cover and throw it in the fridge. Feed and water it every 3-4 weeks and it will last forever. Generally, you can also just save a piece of yeast dough from whatever you are making and you will have starter yeast from that when you add to the next bread product you are trying to make.

 

[George Lucas]

I just eat rice all the time. I’m not Asian. It’s just less of a pain in the ass than bread is. Even store bought bread gets dry or moldy fairly quickly.

 

[Basil Julep]

I just eat rice all the time. I’m not Asian. It’s just less of a pain in the ass than bread is. Even store bought bread gets dry or moldy fairly quickly.

I definitely prefer rice also, but for when I have homemade bread, I make a boule (country rustic ball) style. Then I cut off one slice at a time and store the bread in a linen bag with the cut side down on the counter. The linen bag lets the bread breathe enough so that it doesn't mold and the crust doesn't soften and the cut side down prevents the inside from drying out as fast.

If you like softer bread you can use a bag that breathes less and it'll soften and have a greater chance of molding but the inside will stay soft.

 

[AbendCode12]

There is a nationwide creatine shortage.
There is a war against alpha men.
These things are connected.

 

[Rei is shit]

There is a nationwide creatine shortage.
There is a war against alpha men.
These things are connected.

I noticed the protein powder I buy went up nearly 50% since January. Good thing I stocked up.

 

[K-Hole]

I maybe should have put this post in the Global Depression thread, but wtf, I don't want to double post.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-03/europe-inflation-seen-surpassing-u-s-for-first-time-in-a-decade

https://archive.ph/VTg6o

Europe Inflation Seen Surpassing U.S. for First Time in a Decade​

• European inflation swap rate over next decade trades above 3%
• Ukraine war has fanned price pressures and energy disruptions

“Peak inflation is still ahead of us” in Europe, said Rohan Khanna, a strategist at UBS Group AG in London.


Every article I read talks about 'supply chain' and 'inflation' in the same breath. Now they are starting to utter words like famine as well.


So far, there’s no indication that price pressures are slowing down. Data last week showed euro-area inflation climbed to a fresh all-time high, raising pressure on officials to remove crisis-era stimulus and lift interest rates.


We find out in a little while if we are in a recession or not - https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2022/04/25/walking-backward-into-the-storm/

Are we in a recession? It is an interesting question because nobody can know for sure. A recession is defined as two successive quarters of negative growth. Okay, but how do we know if, in the quarter we are in, the economy is shrinking? Again, we cannot know this. This is because the latest data we have is for February 2022… and it showed an unexpected fall in growth to just 0.1 percent. In the event that growth turned sufficiently negative in March 2022, then the first quarter of 2022 as a whole might have been negative. And in the event that this negative trend continued through April and on through May and June 2022, then we would indeed be in a recession… but we will only know for sure when the data is published in August.


Supply chain issues, inflation, scarcity of once taken-for-granted goods. I'm interested to see how it all plays out. I have very little skin in the game. I live a cave man existence. It wouldn't even matter to me if the whole world got nuked. But I'd like to see humanity survive, and maybe thrive one day. Mothers giving birth to babies, the beautiful cycle of nature that brings the good things and joy...

I haven't seen a Green Pepper in nearly a year now. Cayenne Pepper is as expensive as Cocaine, nearly, but it's harder to get.

I just spent a lot of money on a food shop. Some things you just can't get. But that's it now. No more space left in the cupboard to hedge against what is about to come. And worse, no time long enough to use what I have without waste and throwing stuff out. I'm already using up out of date food, so even doing this shop was pushing it.

Even only a few years ago I was speccing parts for a new computer. But it looks like that won't happen now. A good computer has always cost a grand or two. But now it's double that. Moore's Law has finally broken down I guess. And when things come back on line, and more chips/cpu's become available, well...

Supply chain issues?

First there was the hard drive shortage, where the factories in SE Asia got flooded. Prices will come back to normal in a year or two, but they never did. Not according to Moore's Law which applies to Data Storage as much as it does CPU power. Ok, they stopped gouging us, but I'm still finding myself with no HD space and no where to put my Data, and not able to afford a proper backup solution. NO, not porn. Just normal Data.

Maybe I'm an anomaly.


I've stopped buying software and have gone back to pirating again. And I can't see that changing in the next few years the way things are going. No point in buying software if you have no Data Solution to put your work on, let alone back up what you have and archive it in a meaningful way that it will still be usable in 20 years.

Supply chain issues?

A lot of people playing fast and loose. Burying their heads in the sand. There's a shock coming and it will be a shock when it hits.


This website and maybe a handful of others were ahead of the curve a few years back. They have been vindicated. Ok, we are a bunch of spergs. But we weren't wrong.

I pray to to God we are all wrong about this, and that we will look back upon this period as us being a bunch of worry warts and doomsayers and doom-mongers.

But so far, things have been panning out quite nicely!

 

[Woe-B-Gon (TM)]

This might be a bit odd, but has anyone noticed that elevators tend to be broken longer? At my apartment, at my father's apartment, and at my work site there have been multi-week breakdowns this year. I managed to get a hold of one tech and ask him why it was taking so long and he blamed it on parts scarcity.

(EDIT: I got a hold of the building manager of the current fiasco. Parts supply issue, they're having to ship something in from the east coast. That's 2/3 outages I've experienced blamed specifically on supply issues causing a shortage in this half of the country.)

 

[Simple Moving Average]

What makes you say Feb? I'm not expecting it until May-July.

Ahem

 

[Non-breath oblige]

The chewable multivitamins sections in the markets in my area have been completely barren for the past month or so. The individual vitamins look okay, but the specific gender ones never seem to be fully in stock. Really annoying when the weekly ads scream BOGO on vitamins, yet I can't find any whenever I go, even during dead periods.

 

[Glad I couldn't help]

This might be a bit odd, but has anyone noticed that elevators tend to be broken longer? At my apartment, at my father's apartment, and at my work site there have been multi-week breakdowns this year. I managed to get a hold of one tech and ask him why it was taking so long and he blamed it on parts scarcity.

I've read a theory that the many fires and accidents at food processing plants are caused by delayed maintenance and overwork.

 

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www.gov.cn

China will surely win anti-COVID war in Shanghai, with time-tested epidemic control policy: top leadership

China will surely win the war against COVID-19 with its scientific and effective epidemic control policy that will stand the test of time, according to a meeting of the top leadership on May 5.

english.www.gov.cn

BEIJING — China will surely win the war against COVID-19 with its scientific and effective epidemic control policy that will stand the test of time, according to a meeting of the top leadership on May 5.

The meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee was chaired by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee.

The meeting analyzed the current epidemic prevention and control situation, studied priorities and made arrangements for relevant work.

The meeting said that starting in March, China has withstood the most challenging COVID-19 control test since the anti-epidemic battle of Wuhan, and has secured progress with nationwide concerted efforts.

As the pandemic is still raging across the world and the coronavirus keeps mutating, there is a great deal of uncertainty concerning how the pandemic will develop, according to the meeting, which warned against any slackening in the control efforts.

"Relaxation will undoubtedly lead to massive numbers of infections, critical cases and deaths, seriously impacting economic and social development and people's lives and health," the meeting said.

The meeting stressed the importance of unswervingly adhering to the dynamic zero-COVID policy and resolutely fighting any attempts to distort, question or dismiss China's anti-COVID policy.

COVID-19 control is at a crucial stage, the meeting said, calling on Party committees and governments at all levels to remain confident and promote the spirit of struggle to build a strong defense against the pandemic.

The meeting stressed the need to accelerate the pace of control work to deal with sporadic outbreaks, and the importance of strengthening capacity building, improving response measures in a timely manner, and accelerating research on virus mutation and the prevention of mutation.

The meeting also highlighted measures to ensure people's livelihoods and everyday supplies, meet the people's needs for medical services, and release information on a regular basis to address public concerns.

Party committees, governments and the whole society must guard against a lack of vigilance, fully mobilize the people, and take fast action to implement various COVID-19 control measures and policies in a concrete and meticulous manner.

The meeting also called for strengthened confidence and unity among officials and the people in fighting COVID-19.

tl;dr: CPC will continue lockdowns until the 20th National Party Congress is held. This will occur at earliest in June and most likely in September/August. Pucker your assholes lads and lasses.
By the way, the English article is missing much of the nuance in the Chinese one, go figure.