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%
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NyQuilninja said:
If the fucking power goes again as it often does. It will it make that much harder to find large quantities of coolant for food storage
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Get one of these. Runs of 120V or 12V and works as fridge or freezer. You can run it in your car indefinitely by just running the engine 30 mins a day.
 
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
So why is there a baby food shortage exactly? Is it the regular case where the entire production hinges on a single massive plant rather than have multiple locales?
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Single massive plant. Shut down by the FDA over suspected tainting.
Interestingly, the reason its a single massive plant is that they have the government contract for welfare formula and ran a lot of competitors out of business.
Now the government is buying from everyone else and BOOM shortage for people with money, but not welfare niggers.
 
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I have another Ingredient story. Thought about posting it a few weeks back, but decided not to, until several people here reported something similar.
I usually get an "italian herbal mix" pack that contains a buch of different herbs and a bit of tiny dried garlic pieces.
Just got a pack recently and for the first time in forever (like a decade+) i have noticed a severe change to how these herbs look and feel.
Way tinier pieces, no more garlic whatsoever and all round just a lot drier and cheaper feeling in your hands than before.
Basically like a completely different brand despite not even having a "new mix" sticker on the pack. Tastes okay but different.

This constant gas-lighting by products is the worst.
Not only is random crap not available all the time, but now you also got to watch out for basically buying bootleg versions of the real products even if something is in stock.
The foodstuffs is now about as trustworthy as a Gucci handbag sold by a 75 year old turkish man out of the back of a van in a dark alley in the bad district of istanbul at night.
Would not be surprised if future "ingredient lists" are either completely fictional or just a QR code that allows you to look up what exactly is in your mystery box.
I imagine being actually autistic (and relying on things being familiar) is literal hell now.
Even your favorite brand of Tendies taste weird and new. And no amount of "Reeeeing" can bring the old ones back. F.
teriyakiburns said:
I never did like that minimalist lifestyle bullshit. It's appealing to property ladder climbers, who want a home to look saleable, or to people who want to emulate "influencers" (who always seem to inhabit airy, featureless voids, decorated with the minimum necessary to break up the background,) but it's never a viable lifestyle.
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I would like to point out that the thinking mans minimalism is simply self-control over your materialistic desires.
You dont have to get rid of your stuff to stop your life from being defined by what you own. Hell, enjoy your purchases too.
But dont live for the next release. Dont let it get to you when you cant buy something. Be mindful about your Materialism.
"Minimalism" is just the Coomsoomer version of the monk larp lifestyle.
Imo its surrendering to your materialism because its a clear admission that only a strict separation from property can stop you from consooming uncontrollably.
Just like an alcoholic who cant beat his addiction unless he completely abstains from drinking. Its admission that your willpower cannot stop the addiction alone.
 
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Kramer on the phone said:
no? but that'll never happen around here. too many elites around, they know there would be quite a lot of people willing to siphon their gas first if shit hit the fan that badly.
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There's already nogs around here in this area who are starting to go around stealing gas by using fucking electric drills and plastic home depot buckets to puncture peoples' tanks
 
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Socrates said:
uuuuuuuh so maybe I'm just being paranoid, but has anybody else been noticing an increase in the amount of gas stations straight up out of 87 grade fuel? Like it used to occasionally happen due to shipping error but never to the point where I see 2 or 3 of them clear their electronic price sign of the 87 price within a month of each other. Fluke or not it has definitely upgraded my mood from "bemused apathy" to "nervous laughter".
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Happened to me a week ago. First time in recent memory and any other time was due to natural disasters of some sort.
 
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Actually a thing that interests me. Is there Baby Formula scalping? It makes sense considering just about every shortage right now has this problem, but in every sane country scalping such an important thing would carry the death penalty, but I doubt the Biden administration cares.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Actually a thing that interests me. Is there Baby Formula scalping? It makes sense considering just about every shortage right now has this problem, but in every sane country scalping such an important thing would carry the death penalty, but I doubt the Biden administration cares.
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I haven't heard of anything like that with baby formula. Its not something that was really in peoples minds until recently, and its not a huge value density compared to something like electronics consoles. Additionally, despite popular belief, scalpers aren't generally monsters. You'd have to be a pretty terrible human being to hold a baby being fed to ransom, its nothing like justifying exploiting sweaty gamers desperate for a PS5. And thats not to mention that trying to scalp something that's life or death for an infant is just asking to be shot in the back of the head by a desperate parent when you meet up for the sale.

Too high risk, not enough reward for scalpers to dive in.
 
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Ron Jeremy Stan Account said:
Yes, haven't you heard of a gentleman named Bernie Gores?

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Damn, I thought my nigga Bernie got shot in Afghanistan after he was caught stealing Wendy's chili and Banquet chicken from the Talichads!

But for the thread tax, I just got back from my nearest Target to get some groceries: prices were still somewhat high, but trust me, the baby formula thing was real. About 95% of the baby food aisle was cleared out, sans the Pedialyte baby drink. Only a few cases of formula remained, and there was a sign in front of the shelves which noted that customers were only allowed 4 units max. How exactly they could enforce the rule with self-checkouts is anybody's guess. Plenty of diapers, though, so I guess that's a plus.
 
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Lord of the Large Pants said:
Is Bernie Gores the new Sam Hyde or something? I keep seeing him blamed for things.
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Maybe he actually is committing the crimes in hilarious succession though? Maybe the same guy hoarding the baby formula was also the Buffalo shooter (out on bail or something I guess), which he did after returning from Ukraine where he was affectionately known as the Kid-finder of Kiev, which he fled to last year after almost being killed in Kabul.

And that same person just happens to be some shitty video game streamer with a penchant for smashing controllers in a tard rage.
 
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