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Top US Egg Supplier "Temporarily Ceases" Operations At Texas Plant After Bird Flu Outbreak
www.zerohedge.com/commodities/top-us-egg-supplier-temporarily-ceases-operations-texas-plant-after-bird-flu-detected

The largest egg producer in the US has temporarily halted production at one of its facilities after bird flu—also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI—was detected.

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. wrote in a press release that HPAI was detected at "one of the Company's facilities located in Parmer County, Texas, resulting in depopulation of approximately 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets, or approximately 3.6% of the Company's total flock."

I've often wondered the same thing. The resources we have, effectively give us one shot at developing sufficiently to mine asteroids, other planets etc.
The most obvious 'mining' location in the future will be rubbish tips.

It is unfathomable what we are doing with oil. We allow most plastics to be produced in an unrecyclable form. Most oil we burn, when there are alternatives to it available right now. Much of that burn is wasteful too. The amount of oil getting a second use would be a tiny fraction of one percent. Future generations may curse us for doing this and rightly so.

The only way round it would be for any next civilisation to stay feudal, with the population living in poverty mining the low concentration of resources so that a tiny few can use them. Modern freedom and democracy could never return.

Thing heating up in the Middle East, oil going up.  The US, UK and EU alliance being defeated by the Houthi rebels in Yemen!!

Last night at 3am checked stocks were all in the green, this morning down by  almost 1.5%


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So few have useful trades these days. The government is now looking at importing more builders from the 3rd world because there aren't enough tradies here.
Seems to be no shortage of Diversity Inclusiveness Equality qualified people at every corporation though.

Even if there were still some surviving computer chip factories, they are going to be keeping that stuff internal or charging a mint to export.

I suppose the real test is 'could you build a (low tech) house?' or 'could you grow your own food?'. A failure on either of those and there's no rebuilding for you.

Recycling scrap iron etc is not as easy as it sounds. The 'mix' is getting 'contaminated', even today and its getting harder to produce good quality iron and steel from scrap. The issue is that the high tensile has to sorted from the silicon steel, and copper/Nickle steel and cast iron before re smelting, otherwise you get imperfections and voids in the 'new' iron that weakens and ruins its properties. In fact, its not wise to use recycled iron products for stressful applications, such as construction because of possible failure modes.

After the collapse, I suppose the use for iron will be for tools/knives and so on, so the actual quality of the metal will not really be an issue.

Ditto for copper and other metals.

Having built several houses and many sheds using bush materials, its not that hard to do and end up with a weatherproof building. A dirt floor can be sealed with oil, and indeed if done properly is indistinguishable from a polished wooden floor.

Battery power tools will still be useable for a few years until the battery's die, giving more than enough time to build a house. Bear in mind that time will be valuable after, what with growing food, seeking water and so on.

Computer chips are not going to help you survive, especially as there will be no internet. Perhaps relaxing of an evening playing solitaire or watching a movie may be there, but I suspect that it will be going to bed at dark and rising at dawn just to survive.

Good point re cutting a gear and making it work in a gearbox. I'm at present having to do that as my old Rover rancher ride on has a worn out final drive gear and its unobtainable and any 2nd hand ones I've seen are just as worn, so I'm having to build it up with some high tensile weld and file it back to shape. All with a standard stick welder, no modern high tech MiG stuff here !

The lack of Tradies can be laid directly at the Govts door, they cut back on apprentices and public service trade jobs many years ago to use external contractors. Ditto for large companies like BHP, and Alcoa.

Add in a generous slice of apathy from the general public, and its set for failure. And add in a general population that want to be entertained, rather than pursue a hobby, and will purchase a widget rather than try and make something, however simple, and its all over red rover.




When the truth comes out, don't as me how I knew, ask yourself why you didn't.

I've people ringing up wanting me to do a 'quick' electrical/solar/truck driving job for them, but prepping is fulltime and I'm retired now. One has to stop somewhere and I've stopped.

Money isn't everything.



Nobody watches you harder than the people that don’t like you. Give them a show.

If you dig deep enough.. You will likely find many, most trade schools have been absorbed into the university education system.. This partly because trade school people contribute more back to the local, state, country tax systems through wages from local jobs.. Most university grads move out of local area, state, country.. But the university system is the universities bigger money maker.. So absorbing trade schools is the best, easiest way to control them and there funding..

I know this locally as at one time we had friends vey high up in the state finance department, who were very close to the local state university system and such... This has been happening over almost 35 or so years..

My 5 cents of experience with this..

Medical imaging may be something that cannot be recovered. Even now, pre-1945 steel is valuable as all post WWII steel is contaminated with enough radiation for it to affect the scans. Old WWII ships have repeatedly mysteriously disappeared, no doubt for the steel. This isn't something that can be readily de-contaminated either.