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  1. LordsFire

    The shelves are getting empty

    This is exactly what the left wants. You convinced that you're in a tiny minority, the left has all the power, and you're helpless. That is not true. Yes, they do have a lot of power. Yes, a lot of people follow them. But they do not have all of the power, they do not control a majority of the...
  2. LordsFire

    The shelves are getting empty

    Reports from people actually in England say those shortages are along the lines of 'this one brand of product has been arriving late,' meaning that a few shelves here and there are empty, not mass shortages of everything, or even everything within one product category. Edited in mentioning...
  3. LordsFire

    The shelves are getting empty

    The way that he treats ongoing nigh-continuous inflation as a foregone conclusion is annoying. It's possible, but that would require a complete lack of self-correction by a lot of parties involved in all of this. Given that Italy is now reporting actual Covid death numbers, the elections in...
  4. LordsFire

    The shelves are getting empty

    It isn't as simple as 'just send the ships to the East coast instead.' Even discounting the costs of travelling that far, those cargoes are being sent to western ports for a reason. There's an entire logistical distribution infrastructure that they're already plugged into and planning on using...
  5. LordsFire

    The shelves are getting empty

    One of the annoying things about this, is how the 'science' of dietary health has actually been a big part of this problem. As others have noted, the food pyramid is a part of the problem, but it goes past that. I forget which wave of 'this isn't healthy, you shouldn't eat it' it was, but some...
  6. LordsFire

    The shelves are getting empty

    Off-shoring anything but cheap toy production to China was a bad idea. 'Just in time' logistics should be better understood though; many companies have taken it too far, but there are good reasons for using some of its principles, mostly around avoiding waste. When cutting costs and 'avoiding...
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