The problem wasn’t panic buying, at least not after the first rush. It was that demand for home use went up past the ability to supply during lockdown. Shifting part of the commercial supply to the grocery stores would have solved it immediately.

It’s not magic just because you don’t understand it.

You say that, but it really is the only thing we can do without just giving up and saying “fuck you” to future generations. So how about taking your doomerism and fucking off somewhere to be miserable by yourself.

The toilet paper thing was so stupid. There was plenty available, but they didn’t want to sell it in stores because it was made for commercial use. At the same time they didn’t want to increase production for household supply since that would cost money and they wanted to use the shortage as an excuse to raise prices.

So the least efficient bidet?

Digg based the voting off of a simplified version of Slashdot’s. Except they let everyone vote. Reddit then took that concept and added user generated categories and user moderating.

Yeah, it is an incredible vitual storefront. So many ways to spend money.