Port Strikes (1 Viewer)

[beer 30]

The Toilet Paper shortage will last longer than the strike.

There is no shortage.

The Upstate of SC would like a word

I mean, TP is produced in the USA or imported from Canada. Nothing comes from the eastern ports so any shortage is not due to this strike, but rather due to blistering ignorance. So...checks out?

goes to show that regular people have no clue how this strike will effect them.
They're stockpiling a product that has nothing to do with containers from overseas not being unloaded.

That's be real here. People, in general, are stupid. If you start there, it makes all the rest of this very believable.

I point to the fluoride in the water they've been pumping into us for decades

 

[FreeBaGeL]

The Toilet Paper shortage will last longer than the strike.

There is no shortage.

The Upstate of SC would like a word

I mean, TP is produced in the USA or imported from Canada. Nothing comes from the eastern ports so any shortage is not due to this strike, but rather due to blistering ignorance. So...checks out?

goes to show that regular people have no clue how this strike will effect them.
They're stockpiling a product that has nothing to do with containers from overseas not being unloaded.

That's be real here. People, in general, are stupid. If you start there, it makes all the rest of this very believable.

I point to the fluoride in the water they've been pumping into us for decades

We don't have flouride in the water here in Utah and people are still stupid.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

The Toilet Paper shortage will last longer than the strike.

There is no shortage.

The Upstate of SC would like a word

I mean, TP is produced in the USA or imported from Canada. Nothing comes from the eastern ports so any shortage is not due to this strike, but rather due to blistering ignorance. So...checks out?

goes to show that regular people have no clue how this strike will effect them.
They're stockpiling a product that has nothing to do with containers from overseas not being unloaded.

That's be real here. People, in general, are stupid. If you start there, it makes all the rest of this very believable.

I point to the fluoride in the water they've been pumping into us for decades

We don't have flouride in the water here in Utah and people are still stupid.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Put yourself in the shoes of the average person with a 100 IQ who doesn't follow the news. They just lived through a pandemic involving a respiratory virus that somehow still resulted in widespread and persistent shortages of toilet paper. That person has no idea how toilet paper is manufactured. They have no idea where it is manufactured. They have no idea how supply chains work. They may not be able to explain what a supply chain even is. They don't know what a port does, or how one works, but they know they're important, and that they are part of the mystic "supply chains" that caused toilet paper shortages a few years ago.

Why is it surprising that these people would pick up some extra toilet paper when they're at Costco? That's completely rational from their point of view. I know not to bother loading up on toilet paper, because I learned about this industry during the pandemic, but not everybody has that level of knowledge. They're just pattern-matching.

 

[WVU Alum]

"A Person Is Smart. People Are Dumb, Panicky, Dangerous Animals And You Know It."

 

[Bossman]

Put yourself in the shoes of the average person with a 100 IQ who doesn't follow the news. They just lived through a pandemic involving a respiratory virus that somehow still resulted in widespread and persistent shortages of toilet paper. That person has no idea how toilet paper is manufactured. They have no idea where it is manufactured. They have no idea how supply chains work. They may not be able to explain what a supply chain even is. They don't know what a port does, or how one works, but they know they're important, and that they are part of the mystic "supply chains" that caused toilet paper shortages a few years ago.

Why is it surprising that these people would pick up some extra toilet paper when they're at Costco? That's completely rational from their point of view. I know not to bother loading up on toilet paper, because I learned about this industry during the pandemic, but not everybody has that level of knowledge. They're just pattern-matching.

These people should also fill their bathtub with water ... because supply chain issues.

 

[Courtjester]

I really hope Walmart/Sams

The Toilet Paper shortage will last longer than the strike.

There is no shortage.

The Upstate of SC would like a word

I mean, TP is produced in the USA or imported from Canada. Nothing comes from the eastern ports so any shortage is not due to this strike, but rather due to blistering ignorance. So...checks out?

goes to show that regular people have no clue how this strike will effect them.
They're stockpiling a product that has nothing to do with containers from overseas not being unloaded.

What I couldn't get was the stockpiling of water. I tried to find some angle why our water supply would somehow be disrupted by a union strike on the East coast. I was at Walmart just grabbing a couple things this week and of course the TP and paper towels were pretty much gone, but so was about 80% of the bottled water and this is in Colorado.

 

[beer 30]

The Toilet Paper shortage will last longer than the strike.

There is no shortage.

The Upstate of SC would like a word

I mean, TP is produced in the USA or imported from Canada. Nothing comes from the eastern ports so any shortage is not due to this strike, but rather due to blistering ignorance. So...checks out?

goes to show that regular people have no clue how this strike will effect them.
They're stockpiling a product that has nothing to do with containers from overseas not being unloaded.

That's be real here. People, in general, are stupid. If you start there, it makes all the rest of this very believable.

I point to the fluoride in the water they've been pumping into us for decades

We don't have flouride in the water here in Utah and people are still stupid.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Put yourself in the shoes of the average person with a 100 IQ who doesn't follow the news. They just lived through a pandemic involving a respiratory virus that somehow still resulted in widespread and persistent shortages of toilet paper. That person has no idea how toilet paper is manufactured. They have no idea where it is manufactured. They have no idea how supply chains work. They may not be able to explain what a supply chain even is. They don't know what a port does, or how one works, but they know they're important, and that they are part of the mystic "supply chains" that caused toilet paper shortages a few years ago.

Why is it surprising that these people would pick up some extra toilet paper when they're at Costco? That's completely rational from their point of view. I know not to bother loading up on toilet paper, because I learned about this industry during the pandemic, but not everybody has that level of knowledge. They're just pattern-matching.

These people should also fill their bathtub with water ... because supply chain issues.

No, because the pandemic didn't disrupt water supplies at all. I don't recall whether bottled water ever got short, but the tap water kept flowing through the whole pandemic. It was perfectly reasonable for uninformed people to worry about toilet paper but not water.

 

[CletiusMaximus]

I also learned from the pandemic, which is why I stocked up on scotch yesterday. Not that I ever ran low on scotch during the pandemic, but you never know with this supply chain thing going on.

 

[NutterButter]

I had no idea we didn't import toilet paper. I assume that we import everything. I just don't panic buy. Its fall. Worst case, I'll wipe my *** with some leaves.

 

[rockaction]

Yep, here's where that guy with the useless degree in Economics from a top school comes in and asks why panic buying is stupid on the individual level. I get the feeling I'll be getting answers that didn't satisfy in those economic courses when it came to

a) pauper labor arguments, meaning that cheaper labor didn't necessarily benefit companies' bottom lines
b) free trade being always beneficial arguments

I think I just walked away from econ because abstract economics is both very difficult and rests upon some really weird premises that don't take hold in the real world when the chips are down and important (like Chinese ones in our cranes and automation, including *crap on this* drones).