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Cube Cubis's avatar

awesome article. i started my own business shortly before covid and one of the reasons i started it was 80% of my job in my multinational was fixing fuck ups related to just in time.

I think supply chain is going to be a big issue this year but also, and since i guess you still live in brazil, you might not be seeing it as much as in europe. the shear amount of incompetence of the people you need to deal with on a day to day basis is getting far worse. so many things don't work now. my friend who is very high up in IT blames most of the "due to technical difficulties " issues we see as being down to sending all the IT to india.

even things like whatsapp or FB are far worse and buggy than 5yrs ago.

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JP's avatar

Did you happen to seen the U.S. naval fleet being handcuffed with inability to source parts for repairs in a timely manner?

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Moriarty's avatar

I did not but I am not even surprised. The US also can fuel ships in the region with extensive combat is engaged... because Biden wanted the DoD to be more green.

LOL

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Vxi7's avatar

In Hungary Suzuki factory stopped for minimum 1 week due to red sea events.

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Bandit's avatar

Believe it or not, I knew that the JIT idea would come back to bite us in the butt when they started it. Where I worked previously it did, on occasion, but not for such a period of time that shortages would really be a large problem. Welcome to what I've been expecting.

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Moriarty's avatar

JIT is great if there are no hitches in the system, no snags and everything runs perfectly in synchrony 😆 not exactly the case during and after pandemics.

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Bandit's avatar

Also not the case when multiple machines need the same part at the same time and the distributer doesn't have enough.

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JoeyClutch's avatar

Have you ever read Peter Zeihan’s Disunited Nations? Guy seems flakey to me but I surprisingly didn’t disagree with as much as I thought. Anyway, take care all.

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Moriarty's avatar

I never paid attention to Zeihan and when he started blowing up the first tweet I saw of him was "The US economy finds itself strong because we were saved by our mRNA tech while China keeps locking down".

Instant block never looked back. That used to be my litmus test to get insta -block 😂

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Bandit's avatar

Insta-block. I like that. It's funny to me.

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Bandit's avatar

Never heard of him.

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NatteringNaybob's avatar

Professor - Post 9/11 corporate - politico excuse du jour - the terrorists. "This Time is Different?" As I stated within my inner circle when Hamas was elected - "never mind the Hezbollah, here comes the Hamas - Bollocks" The difference between Arafat PLO and Hamas? Much like all governments, both are "legitimized" criminal enterprises. However, Arafat who robbed the Palestians of billions, was appointed & never elected. Flash foward - extend with "legitimized" criminal enterprise of both Houthi and the unelected WEF ESG de-industrialization - "Glitch in the Matrix?" No, history repeats as SOP Mr. Mulder. https://youtu.be/yzLT6_TQmq8?

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Pablo's avatar

Thanks for the article!

Things do not happen in a determined time frame, so it's understandable posts here vary much more. In science you have a huge array of topics in backlog.

Btw, if you want to speed up your writing you can always try this technology, chatgpsomething ;)

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Moriarty's avatar

Last time I used language models was in late November or early December.

Early ChatGPT was fantastic, really good. Now it is where it would always end up. In my mental dustbin.

When they fix the issues it will degrade again after a while. The current architecture sucks lmao.

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