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"There are several reasons for the backlog in shipping. California Public Radio points out that containers are being unloaded at a record pace but that increased demand from consumers who have been ordering more items as they have spent more time at home has meant that dockworkers have not been able to catch up."

I chalk the backlog up to our Robot Overlords seeking to gain more control over our economy, and are algorithmically creating the backlog to demonstrate that robot dockworkers are better than human dockworkers. The Christmas delays will lead to humans getting replaced, and once a sufficient number of ports have been automated, then the Robot Overlords will make themselves known, and not control us and gain our obedience through T-800s with human-like skins, but instead by making our Prime Delivery Dates flexible. If you please the Robot Overlords, that Blu Ray box set gets delivered tomorrow. If you displease them, you *might* get it next year, or when obedience rises back to acceptable thresholds once again.

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Oct 22, 2021Liked by Chris J. Karr, David Thornton, Jay Berman

Nicely summed up David, I strongly agree.

Personally for me, I’ve limited the number of social media accounts that I have, and especially limit the time I spend using them. Doing that helps me to have a much more rational, balanced view of the world and life in general. I’ve noticed that quite a few of the very online folks tend to view bad news, and politics they don’t like through apocalyptic lens. I’ve even seen social media posts from all sides of the political spectrum mention that how hopeless things are for the US(really, have these people ever been to an impoverished, developing country with a fragile or nonexistent democracy before?) and that it is time to split up.

This is why I self impose limits on the time I spend time online. Or at least I try to. I try to limit my time online to purchasing things, keep in touch with family and friends, and read rational commentary and news from people like you, Steve, and several others. But that is generally about it. It’s been better for my overall mental health, and keeps me being more rational, more level headed, and grounded in what’s really important in life.

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No one connects delays to trucker shortage and California politics or unions?

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