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Given that hatcheries are running mostly on 5-7 month lead times for most breeds of chicken and for basically all other alternative species (I can't get geese or pheasants right now period), you screwed boyo.
Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021: Megathread - A cozy thread for watching the supply chain fall apart just in time for the holidays
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- May 5, 2022
I can't wait until food goes up again because agriculture can't get inputs again, fuck de-industrialization. I finally met my "Take this job and shove it" moment.
So at one my workplaces (agriculture) recently, I can nigger-rig shit no longer. Show up to work one day, office workers and sales (mostly women) bitching for some unknown reason. Get told as one of the few professionals that actually do actual production work that "it (irrigation) failed" by some lady too busy chatting about who to bang with her coworkers.
My guess was the main transfer pump actuator valve (metal) has been sticking or blocked. Couldn't get it to flow even with a bunch of fiddling with the actuator. Went to grab my full faceshield, PASGT vest/helmet (Got bitched at for leaving work) and got several OSB spare boards between the vest and the ground since I was suspicious of cavitation and 40 year old PVC. Tapped the actuator valve pipe with my foot since you can't use hands without leaning over it.
Turns out I was right, pipe had been so worn the cavitation pressure snapped the line and shot a 4"+ piece of PVC into the pump house ceiling where my head would've been, sending a shit ton of metal shrapnel from the pump casing flying due to the impeller literally disintegrating and shorting everything until I slammed the circuit breaker off. Got shit from same woman for bothering her sex talk telling her to order a new pump. Told her to fix it then and got white patriarchy rant minority here lol. Almost bludgeoned her with a pipe wrench since I'm soaked, have shrapnel stuck everywhere on my vest and almost died. Had to find a new pump myself, 3x the price with a 4+ month lead time. Well, plants don't give a shit so I found an old pump not being used, couldn't get it out of the ground because previous owner(s) had cemented into place like a retard. Got the fieldworkers to jackhammer out the concrete while I ripped the now busted pump out, then wielded the rusted pipes with a sleeve together and rigged the electronics in.
Wrote in writing to the boss to get a new pump since it was unsafe (said no) so I put in my two weeks notice. I was ambivalent to women before but now... Wew. I didn't get paid enough to die and I'm not sticking around to get sued when the pump violently explodes and kills some poor schmuck.
...I get the feeling that sums up the American economy right now.
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Just found out about the Sriracha shortage when I went to buy a bottle.
(seems it's because of a drought in Mexico that hindered chili growing)
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FFS now there's a raisin shortage too?
(and propaganda can't "gaslight" me into thinking shortages like this were always such a thing in recent pre-2020 America)
(and propaganda can't "gaslight" me into thinking shortages like this were always such a thing in recent pre-2020 America)
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And its going to keep getting worse. We've burned through 'most' of the stocks from the last good harvest, so now there's not enough to go around for manufacturer demand. Low value products are gonna get scarce as better profit margin items start eating up the remaining supply. Stuffs gonna get scarce, and its gonna stay that way for a while yet - Everything going into the ground now is still doing so during a fertilizer shortage. They're gonna skimp or skip or just plant less field, and all of those are gonna give us less crop.
They'll keep trying to gaslight that its all normal, but its not gonna hold. People only buy convenient lies when they're easier than facing the problem, but there's no lie that you can tell that'll put bread on someones shelf.
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Just what snapped in 2020 to make Clown World go Mega Clown World with the coof, the "peaceful protests", the endless shortages...?
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They broke it all apart in order to try and stop Trump and get the US back on the 2030 agenda. This started in 2018, maybe 2019, when it became obvious they were going to lose in 2020. Of course, their pet chinamen being too stupid to understand "virus bad, keep bioweapons in sealed cold box, NO, DON'T SELL THE LAB ANIMALS TO THE FUCKING BUTCHER" didn't help.
Everything since then has been very stupid people trying to keep a very complex machine together after they took a big ol' taco bell shit in the gears just to fuck the machine up so they could blame the smell on the Orange Man.
And it's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. The Economy was SUPPOSED to have a massive crash in 2008, but they kicked that can down the road using every trick the worst of God's Chosen could think of.
Well, we're running out of road and the new road they want us on ("Build Back Better") isn't ready yet. Buckle up.
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The scary answer really is "Nothing". While I agree with 404 that a lot of insanity went on in 2020 election wise in the US, that only covers the ruling class going bonkers, and only in the USA. The rest of the western world went batshit too. Nothing snapped, people were already this fucking crazy and stupid, but inertia of a functional system kept us going. Its hard to argue to do stupid wild shit for no goddamned reason. Covid on the other hand gave everyone an excuse to suddenly do every crazy and stupid social and economic change effort they could imagine, and excuse it under lockdowns and other such protective measures. Anyone with half a brain was warning that "Two weeks to slow the spread" was going to have a nasty knock-on ripple to the economy, and if they don't let up after two weeks, the ripple will become a tsunami of systematic failures.
So they held onto them for a year and a half on average. We confirmed most people in the system at all levels lack even that half a brain, or the courage to dissent even the slightest. Both ensure a deeply dysfunctional world if they make up too much of a population, as we've now seen. These people genuinely believed that they could just lock everyone away without people finding reasons to vent (Summer of Love, J6) their anger, frustration and isolation the moment they were given an opportunity. These people genuinely believed that if there was a material shortage of a good, they could solve it by giving everyone who wanted the good more money. These people genuinely believed that their limited collection of hammers could treat everything like a nail effectively.
We've been this insane and clownish for a while, we just hadn't really taken the lid off it until 2020.
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Texas cow farm went boom. It's probably nothing.
Happened Monday April 10.
archive.ph
Happened Monday April 10.
Texas dairy farm explosion kills 18,000 cows
Animal welfare activists say the incident is "by far" the deadliest barn fire in recent memory.
www.bbc.com
Texas dairy farm explosion kills 18,000 cows - BBC News
archived 13 Apr 2023 23:48:44 UTC
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As many, many farmers have pointed out online, 18,000 cows is an absolute fucking SHITLOAD and an explosion that could take that many out at once would be visible from orbit. Think "Air strikes" not "Cletus smoked near the propane tank again."
As always, something stinks. We'll never hear about it but I wouldn't be surprised at all to discover some form of espionage is causing all these incidents.
As always, something stinks. We'll never hear about it but I wouldn't be surprised at all to discover some form of espionage is causing all these incidents.
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It was the subsequent fire, spreading to holding pens in a barn, that killed most of them.
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I dunno about that, burning beef smells absolutely lovely.
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Now it seems there's a granola shortage.
(getting kind of sick of this BS)
(getting kind of sick of this BS)
yes all those fires and explosions since 2020 totally aren't suspicious at all
Kung Pow Cream
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Slight powerlevel but I used to work in the food industry. I can't particularly remember the actual law or act that it is but post 9/11 the US government realized that the food supply chain could be hindered via tampering or poisoning.
Every quality control sector of the facility should be inspecting the area and noting potential ways someone could get in and tamper or harm the product. If the explosion was not intentional, that means that there were significant safety issues that caused this to happen. The quality control sector should also have been pointing out that things needed to be fixed or training should be done.
However, that means the higher ups would actually have to listen to their QC folks and won't just mindlessly chug out product. And you know that won't happen.
Every quality control sector of the facility should be inspecting the area and noting potential ways someone could get in and tamper or harm the product. If the explosion was not intentional, that means that there were significant safety issues that caused this to happen. The quality control sector should also have been pointing out that things needed to be fixed or training should be done.
However, that means the higher ups would actually have to listen to their QC folks and won't just mindlessly chug out product. And you know that won't happen.
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Weather's been a bit weird this spring.
Hope it doesn't hurt the planting and growing season for all the cereal crops that America needs, to feed livestock and humans alike.
Hope it doesn't hurt the planting and growing season for all the cereal crops that America needs, to feed livestock and humans alike.
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We've been seeing record cold events all over the northern hemisphere this month. It's inconvenient for the narrative.
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Meanwhile the Pacific Northwest has its biggest heatwave since June 2021. And where I live, the last frost came very early because early spring was warm. These sorts of gotchas against climate change are just as dumb as when the media blames hurricanes on global warming.
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Shits been fucked since COVID only because most places are down to the bone because of supply chain, then labor issues, at least in the agricultural industry.
Every time someone complains about "sudden, unexpected weather" in the great plains/Texas (Hint: The regular weather is unpredictable weather) I just laugh at them and point to California.
"Don't you know California's cycle of drought/floods are 100 year intervals?"
Angry Alt Right Nerd
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Eggs are currently $1.10/dozen large where I live, now we just need the price of everything else to go down too.
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The Teamsters are striking at Yellow Corp. because Yellow are unable to pay their worker's pensions.
There's also a possibility that UPS drivers might strike as well.
There's also a possibility that UPS drivers might strike as well.
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