164
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago

During the first COVID supply crisis after China shut down, I remember:

  1. A door factory shutting down because they couldn't domestically source the parts for doors

  2. Freight truck factories shutting down production because they couldn't domestically source some small metal part

  3. Every utilities company facing critical shortages for repairs and maintenance, warning they were one natural disaster away from the electrical grid collapsing

[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Every utilities company facing critical shortages for repairs and maintenance

Still an issue, I work for a utility and lead times for things like high voltage transformers are still ~18 months or so from what I've been told

Coincidentally, I also processed a shipment of smaller transformers that came thru from South Korea (which for us was unheard of)

It's not ideal

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

so what youre telling me is that if a group of organized people wanted, they could take out the entire us electrical grid by blowing up a bunch of transformers?

HUH

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Lead times on those have been that bad for at least 10 years

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's never been good in my experience (9 years), but it's also never been quite as bad as it currently is

[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

-Ammunition becoming more scarce and expensive because guess who makes almost every primer in almost every shell some-controversy

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

We truly missed a potential cool zone. Donald Trump is made of goddamn teflon.

this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2024
164 points (100.0% liked)

news

24084 readers
664 users here now

Welcome to c/news! Please read the Hexbear Code of Conduct and remember... we're all comrades here.

Rules:

-- PLEASE KEEP POST TITLES INFORMATIVE --

-- Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed. --

-- All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. --

-- If you are citing a twitter post as news please include not just the twitter.com in your links but also nitter.net (or another Nitter instance). There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ or archive them as you would any other reactionary source using e.g. https://archive.today/ . Twitter screenshots still need to be sourced or they will be removed --

-- Mass tagging comm moderators across multiple posts like a broken markov chain bot will result in a comm ban--

-- Repeated consecutive posting of reactionary sources, fake news, misleading / outdated news, false alarms over ghoul deaths, and/or shitposts will result in a comm ban.--

-- Neglecting to use content warnings or NSFW when dealing with disturbing content will be removed until in compliance. Users who are consecutively reported due to failing to use content warnings or NSFW tags when commenting on or posting disturbing content will result in the user being banned. --

-- Using April 1st as an excuse to post fake headlines, like the resurrection of Kissinger while he is still fortunately dead, will result in the poster being thrown in the gamer gulag and be sentenced to play and beat trashy mobile games like 'Raid: Shadow Legends' in order to be rehabilitated back into general society. --

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS