Supply chain affecting anyone?

Seems to me someone needs to work and pay taxes.

We are no more in this kind of "normalcy" sorry....And it is not the way this "world" work at all anymore for decades now....

Debt, work, taxes, prices,etc all that is based on a notion of what "values" and "money" and "supplies" are in relation to one another... This relation is completely broken or in bad hands control...

This is an amazing view from our chair to each one of us: the world change more in 2 years that in 50 or hundred years in the past century... the world has lived more change visible or not yet visible for us than in the last millenium cumulated years...


Only one exemple: technology evolution laws are an evolution now completely out of the human hand... WHY ? Because we put human values BEHIND power...
We are all any one of us placed between the false choice of Ray Kurzweil idea about life OR an Amish way of life....Why?


A supply chain is NOT a supply chain only , it is a playground between power and value...It is not first a technology but an ethical and moral imagination more than anything else... We forgot it , we die....




«Changes in the body are so swift it is a cadaveric body snowball chain or a complete metamorphosis of the larva»- Anonymus Smith

«Why not two of a good thing?»-Groucho Marx 🤓

It’s not just parts & electronics….two local supermarkets have not had Boars Head cold cuts for months on end due to “supply chain issues”, just the crappy store brands.   Certain store isles are almost always half empty now.   Makes you wonder how persistent the issue is and whether it’ll get worse before it gets better.  

…oh, and I forgot—ammunition.   Few days ago I tried my normal online outlets for ammunition, everything from large chains (Cabellas) to small online-only suppliers.   What I needed was NOwhere to be found.   And I looked everywhere.   Best u can hope for is an email heads-up when/if it goes off of backorder.    

Nothing could compete for lack of water....

I forget to mention climate changing conditions are also a growing factor....

My Safety Inspection for my motorcycle was due end July 2021.  Suspecting this "supply" issue, I went to Harley in the middle of June for a Pre Inspection.  Needed tires and other little items.  They did not have my tires in stock and would order them.  July came.  I get a call telling me that their supplier was out of stock also.  They checked with other dealers to no avail.   Finally early September I get a call. They found and received my tires and scheduled for the work to be done.  Two months and $1200.00, done.

I have dealt with supply issues before.  Manufactures sometimes would go out of stock of a certain high failure circuit boards and parts.  We began fixing the broken circuit boards and modifying other parts to work thru this shortage.  It was more work and expense for us but we got the machines up and running again.

Lesson to be learned here.  If there is something you cannot live without, find a way to supply yourself with it.
Water.  Learn to distill you own water.  I know.  Easy for me to say.  I live on the Pacific Basin.
Food.   Learn how to grow, hunt, fish...
Someone mentioned Ammunition.  My dad was a target shooter.  He shot 22, 38 and 45.   He put together his own 38 and 45 rounds.  Joking about the Apocalypse that was coming
Electricity for our stereo systems.  Get on with Solar.
However, there are some that will be hard to self produce.  Gasoline for my car, motorcycle, generator... That's s tough one.  But if it is super important to me, Diesel/Bio-Diesel.  I didn't mention my dad's 22 cal.  They are "Rim Fired".  Those had to be purchased.  But he stocked a bunch.  My dad and all of that is gone now so I can talk about it.

Honestly.  There are more important "supply" items one needs than Stereo.