Yeah, put super simply:

Minimize needed actual storage space and time a thing spends in storage… by relying on very frequent and consistent logistics.

Its very efficient in the sense of minimizing operating costs…

But it is also extremely fragile, a minor perturbation can fuck shit up for weeks or months.

… And we are getting… well basically the most major disruption in the history of JIT as a logistics paradigm.

Cost of living is too high, put it on credit.

Your alternative is starve now.

Either way, this is about to get a lot more bonkers in roughly the next 30 to 60 days as Just In Time delivery… kinda just, stops working, and grocery stores will have to both raise prices and ration items per customer per week to deal with shortages and try to minimize in-store injuries and deaths.

Go look up a compilations of black friday shopping stampedes.

Imagine that, but for groceries, every time a grocery store restocks… for the forseeable future.

Yep.

This means the 4th Amendment is dead.

Oh, any LE agency wants to search your house? Your car?

Uh, hrm, which very vaguely suspected migrants live in your building, your neighborhood?

2 miles away? Whatever, close enough.

Ok, now you’ve got ICE at your door, on the flimsiest evidence, connected in the flimsiest way, to a person suspected on a different set of flimsy evidence…

… And they are just searching your place because random guy may have been in the area, might have burgled you, whatever, who cares, we’ve got a warrant, lots of guns, do not interfere with our investigation.

This comm does actually have a rule that you are to replicate headlines precisely.

Have… have we all learned yet, by now, that basically 90% of managers and bosses are literally idiots who only understand buzzwords, vaguely, uselessly?

… Their jobs are easier to automate than ours.

Reminder that during Covid, Elon bought a bunch of CPAP machines (for sleep apnea), sent these to various hospitals, claimed he sent them ‘respirators’, and then claimed it was a conspiracy against him personally when hospitals told him ‘these are not respirators, they will not work, we cannot use them’.

Also, vibes based math aside…

I don’t get how this … makes sense, from an energy expenditure level.

You have a 3 feet long stick, with a 4 foot long string, with a fuzzy mouse on the end.

You… flick your wrist, in various motions, such that the toy seems to be … hiding… then evading! then running, then hiding, then somewhere hard to reach… scittering slightly like it thinks its safe, sniffing for food -ah back to evading!

Sure, your arm is moving too, maybe you are also turning somewhat, or even walking a bit to certain areas of your place with more cat obstscles… but you literally have leverage, working for you.

… The cat is literally bouncing off the walls, running at 15 mph, climbing up the cat tower, shimmying under the couch or a table, suddenly executing snap turns, sometimes literally in midair…

… How on earth does that work out to you expeding more caloric energy than the cat?

It is even less work on your end if you use a laser pointer, though personally I would not recommend this due to the chance of accidentally injuring your cats eyes.

Damn, that’s… quite the line up of Steam Deck related devs, shit.

Welp, I’m convinced.

That sounds very much like certain white trash family members in my family/extended family, and family of neighbor kids I grew up with.

Utterly shit people who have objectively fucked up or failed at nearly every opportunity ever presented to them, never seek out or attempt to create their own opportunities… but also somehow just infinitely smug and self confident about basically just random unremarkable nonsense details of their lives.

And of course, are never wrong about anything and are literally incapable of genuine introspection.

I mean, I’d appreciate it!

Wha… do you get some kind of reddit currency if you make a post that breaks 1000 upvotes, with a multiplier based on your log in streak length?

Jesus Christ, these fucking dark pattern, microtransaction shit just needs to be universally banned.

The entire history of the phrase ‘wrong side of the tracks’ also comes to mind.

They would all arrive at the market and insist on being able to open carry slung AR15s, and then be utterly baffled by the concept of a weapons check.

Like… even in ‘the West’ (yeehaw cowboys West) it was pretty common to have a weapons check at bars… because they quickly learned that if you don’t do that, well, patrons don’t enjoy the risk of getting their balls blown off while trying to throwback a shot of whiskey, because two other idiots nearby got into a fight.

Literally the fabled Tombstone, AZ, did this, as a city wide ordinance.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gun-control-old-west-180968013/

Gun control is older than almost half the states in the union.

IIRC:

It was an aerial, or highly elevated shot of an extremely wealth district of high rise apartments and condos in… Brazil I think?

Seperated by a giant fence with a favela on the other side.

And then labelled something to the effect of ‘this is your brain on communism’ or whatever.

EDIT: Something like this, I think:

Rio de Janiero.

Schrödinger’s tariffs, you don’t know what the tax rate is till it arrives at port!

Damn, my shipment of cats is all dead, this time, SAD!!!

aheheh…

Coming Soon!

Watch This Space!

sped up timelapse shot of giant billboard decaying

Another second or third order effect, depending on exactly how you class it:

Lots of smaller, more specific product segment oriented businesses?

Well, the smart ones ordered a bunch of supply at the end of last year or beginning of this year.

Which means their smaller ware and storehouses are fuller than normal.

Which means they… assumed demand would more or less remain steady.

Which means they took a big expense some months ago, maybe covered it with a loan.

Which means the Q4 24 and Q1 25 quarters are actually pulling forward from the rest of the year, which means we will actually GDP fall from… the baseline prior to that, not after that.

… And if when the economy generally tanks, and demand falls through the floor…

Well, some of them will survive.

But many won’t.

Even though they did the arguably smarter thing, they’ll still have to cut hours, do lay offs, even though the bosses told their workers that they didn’t get a Xmas bonus… so that they wouldn’t have to lay them off or cut their hours.

…

Beyond that, remember when the Ever Given got stuck in the Suez?

And… if you knew anyone in logistics… shit was back ordered and fucked up and people were paying premiuma for priority shipping that was still late, and dock processing times and land tranait schedules were fucked because everyone kept changing plans last minute?

Oh just multiply that level of chaos by 100 or 1000 or so.

Nbd rofl.

…

… As someone with a basic Econ degree, I always find it hilarious how often the highly praised and glorified ‘small business owner’… is actually pretty much ignorant of most basic economics.

What is it, 95% or 99% of small businesses fail within the first year? Just like how 99% of Youtubers or Tiktokers or OnlyFans people make essentially no money?

Nobody bothers to look into any of that though, oh well.

At least succesful Youtubers / streamers are generally aware of the fact they’ve won the lottery.

Small business owners on the other hand are usually the most self righteous ass hats I ever meet: We’re a abusive family business!

(though there are of course exceptions to that)

High Intensity Remote Picnic Simulator

Oh… sir! Ants! Ants everywhere!

mortar shells impacting everywhere, source unknown

Call mom! Mooom!

ch 47 inbound for extraction, hot LZ acknowledged

…lol

… My ex was SA’d by a staff member during one fairly long term stay.

Managed to get that guy fired, but not … you know, prosecuted.

The state of mental health is fucked because mental health, at its core, foundationally is built off of ‘how do we pathologize and treat people who have trouble being or cannot actually be any kind of an ideal employee.’

No one fixes this, or homelessness, because … no one cares, these people have no money or power, they are viewed as drains on society, instead of potentially productive members of society, or even fundamentally as just… human beings with consciousness/souls.

It is a structural issue with literally all of society, and the severely mentally ill, and the homeless (which often coincide, what a shocker) are literally the untouchables class.

We like to think we are more modern, more enlightened, more decent… no, we are not.

We are just better at technological propoganda and treats and distractions.

… Maybe there is a world where … now that the veil of this has been shattered by the rise of fascist MAGAs… maybe, down the line, this will lead to some kind of equivalent social/philosophical reexamination of how… we do everything, as there was after WW2 and the Holocaust… maybe that could be our future.

So… yeah.

I just wanna say… they’re not ‘imaginary’ tormentors, in the sense of someone playing make believe, who can just … not do that.

They cannot turn off the voices in their heads.

They cannot control the fact that they have vivid visual, audio, tactile, olfactory etc hallucinations that are indistinguishable from actual reality, that their memories of past events can basically just have things that did not actually happen… formed or inserted as a ‘core memory’, or things that did actually happen… wildly warped or just removed.

So… what do you do, show them a video of what happened, with them in it?

Nope, thats fake, thats not them, that is their doppleganger, that is their evil clone.

Nobody really knows how to ‘fix’ this, or if its even possible.

Antipsychotics generally just make them more docile and less prone to aggressive outbursts, but they also have massive sideeffects… they often do not actually stop the actual ‘unreal’ experiences.

It is nowhere near as simple as ‘stay on your meds and all the hallucinations go away.’

The result is that… they cannot trust anything… because quite often, the psychiatrists and other medical people they see will basically manipulate and trick them into beleiving the meds … are a cure… insinuating or even directly stating that their meds will solve the problem.

There is also a lot of other kinds of fraud and abuse going on with many people who treat schizophrenics because… who’s going to believe them?

…

I had an ex who … developed into severe schizophrenia.

Shit sucks man.