Okay, if this is real, this is worse than I was expecting.

[tijgertje1987@mastodon.online]

@moira
Let’s be honest.
Those red-neck states would just got burst without the money from states like California.

But yes they are terrible

[moira@mastodon.murkworks.net]

@Tijgertje1987 I mean internally.

Their children do not deserve that.

[tijgertje1987@mastodon.online]

@moira
True but well.
Still better then WW III, what that moron nearly caused by trying to invade Greenland

[marjolica@social.linux.pizza]

@moira oil product shortages?

..."maybe buy an ebike"

Don't forget to get some chain lube too.

[moira@mastodon.murkworks.net]

@Tijgertje1987 Sure. And similarly, between a fascist united states, and a hypothetical broken-up united states, I will pick the latter _every time_.

I'd just prefer not to have to make that choice.

[moira@mastodon.murkworks.net]

@marjolica Chain lubes aren't oil based. At least, not ones worth even a fraction of their price. (They exist but they're absolute shit tier.) Everything even halfway decent is some kind of wax-based.

But yes, I am stocked up even on that.

[bencotterill@mastodon.social]

@masek @moira Thanks.

[supermoosie@mastodon.au]

@moira @marjolica

Petroleum based waxes?

[moira@mastodon.murkworks.net]

@SuperMoosie @marjolica Actually, good question! I've categorised waxes separately and mine are all biodegradable but I can't say they're not, I don't know the manufacturing process.

[print@theforkiverse.com]

@moira @masek

Another 40% claim of different supply chain issue

geoworldpolitical (@geoworldpolitical@mastodon.social)

Your Prescription Drugs Come Through the Strait of... How prescription drug supply chains depend on the Strait of Hormuz. 40% of U.S. pharmaceutical ingredients flow through this chokepoint—disruptions mean shortages. https://theboard.world/articles/energy/your-prescription-drugs-come-through-strait-of-hormuz #Energy #Oil #Climate

Mastodon (mastodon.social)

[pa27@mastodon.social]

@moira Meanwhile our so called leaders have their heads in the sand - almost literally.

[mlanger@mastodon.world]

@moira @rpmik I'm worried about diesel engine oil. This is the second warning I've seen online about potential shortages. I bought 6 gallons of the stuff last week. It's a real shame that one idiot in Washington has to turn all of us into hoarders.

[eestileib@tech.lgbt]

@moira

That reads fake to me, it's talking to franchisees like they're humans deserving of respect and information.

Does not seem corporate at all.

[moira@mastodon.murkworks.net]

@eestileib At the same time, I'm seeing a variety of similar numbers of estimated supply shortfalls, including some people have appended in replies.

So if it's fake, it's using some numbers being quietly reported elsewhere - which makes being fake weirder.

[eestileib@tech.lgbt]

@moira

Yeah I don't doubt that the crunch is coming mind you.

Maybe AutoZone is less shitty to work for than the typical company.

[moira@mastodon.murkworks.net]

@eestileib Given how shitty _customers_ got after COVID, they're likely anticipating a similar shitty reaction and are putting on the "we're all in this together" routine.

After all, being good and nice in a memo isn't the same as actually being good and/or nice.

[eestileib@tech.lgbt]

@moira

Mmmhmm. "Here are the triage rules, boy it's gonna suck enforcing them"

[artemis@dice.camp]

@Tijgertje1987 @moira
Lots of marginalized people live in "red-neck states" including a very large percentage of the Black population of this country. Must be fucking nice for you to imagine the world is split into good & bad areas, but here in the real world, it doesn't work that way.

[msbellows@c.im]

@moira @Tijgertje1987 There's a reason they are suppressing the Black vote in the former Confederate states: if every citizen were allowed to vote, Democrats would win overwhelmingly. And don't fool yourself into thinking there are racist and non-racist states. A Black friend has said he feels much safer against racism in the deep South, where there are lots of Black people who have his back, than he does here in the Pacific Northwest, where the racists aren't at all nervous about being hurt themselves.

I have fantasies about seceding, too, but what we really need to do is hang every Nazi and build giant memorials, visible for miles, from their bones.

[tijgertje1987@mastodon.online]

@artemis @moira

Of course I realise that, but frankly as an European that is not my problem.
That is something you yanks must fix yourself!

The rest of the world is fed up with the reckless behaviour of the USA and their tendency to wreck the world economy every 10~15 years.

And now nearly caused World War III by threatening not 1 but 2 NATO countries.
When the rest of NATO is prepared to take arms up against you in defence you really fucked up as a country