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  • #16
    Originally posted by PaloAltoCougar View Post

    Last week I saw a huge automated island port next to Shanghai with very few workers on the entire island. It's obviously vastly more efficient than anything here is the states. Can't remember if Chinese dockworkers struck against automation. Probably not.
    I’m sure they didn’t or at least the ones alive today didn’t.
    "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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    • #17
      I went to Costco today and every bit of toilet paper is wiped out. I asked an attendant what's going on and he says it's happening all over as fear of this strike. But apparently almost all toilet paper in this country is produced in the country.

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      • #18
        Originally posted by USUC View Post
        I went to Costco today and every bit of toilet paper is wiped out. I asked an attendant what's going on and he says it's happening all over as fear of this strike. But apparently almost all toilet paper in this country is produced in the country.
        I went out to dinner Monday night with two of my sisters and my mother. One of my sister's daughters (a college student in Utah) was frantically texting her during the evening asking her if she needed to go to Costco to stock up because of the strike. The four of us just looked at each other with "wtf?" expressions. I guess my niece was right after all, at least in Utah. I haven't gone to the store here to see if there is a run on anything (and am not planning on going anytime soon).

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        • #19
          Originally posted by USUC View Post
          I went to Costco today and every bit of toilet paper is wiped out. I asked an attendant what's going on and he says it's happening all over as fear of this strike. But apparently almost all toilet paper in this country is produced in the country.
          That's funny.

          They are hoarding bottled water too, which I guarantee you is produced in the US.
          "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
          "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
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          • #20
            Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post

            That's funny.

            They are hoarding bottled water too, which I guarantee you is produced in the US.
            I was told by this same attendant that Costco has a water bottling plant (or is contracted with a plant) in North Salt Lake.

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post

              That's funny.

              They are hoarding bottled water too, which I guarantee you is produced in the US.
              This is happening all over, of course. I saw someone talking about it in Michigan. MI has 49 water bottlers in the state.
              Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.

              "The only one of us who is so significant that Jeff owes us something simply because he decided to grace us with his presence is falafel." -- All-American

              GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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              • #22
                Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post

                That's funny.

                They are hoarding bottled water too, which I guarantee you is produced in the US.


                But maybe the raw materials are imported?
                "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
                "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
                "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
                GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Uncle Ted View Post



                  But maybe the raw materials are imported?
                  ....From Canada

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                  • #24
                    So what should I be panic-buying/hoarding?

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Clark Addison View Post
                      So what should I be panic-buying/hoarding?
                      Woodworking tools and supplies. Make your own toilet paper.
                      "I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
                      - Goatnapper'96

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Pelado View Post

                        Woodworking tools and supplies. Make your own toilet paper.
                        "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf
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                        • #27
                          It's in these trying times that I'm grateful for my bidet.

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Shaka View Post
                            It's in these trying times that I'm grateful for my bidet.
                            Darn straight.

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                            • #29
                              I have looked into a bidet. Another reason to lose some weight....they don't care for people my size.

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Shaka View Post
                                It's in these trying times that I'm grateful for my bidet.
                                I installed one of those in the master bath... I don't know why I waited so long.
                                "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
                                "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
                                "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
                                GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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