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Well, it?reminds me of my favourite "Snatch" movie line... "Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity".?

73 Hans G0UPL

On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 6:17 PM Mike Perry, WA4MP <editor@...> wrote:

> I don't think there's any great conspiracy or powerful forces directing it - but this is just the way the world system has been evolving. Thousands of individual decisions that make sense on a micro level, add up to make big consequences.


Quite right. I try not to ascribe to conspiracy anything that could be the result of stupidity. I once saw a cartoon that was all too apt. “Be proud of your stupidity,” it said. “It’s what separates us from the animals."

For years I’ve been warning Apple on Mac news sites not to do so much single sourcing, particularly in China. Always have several sources even if some cost more, I stressed. Recently, Apple announced that it would lose $8 billion dollars due to supply chain issues. I feel like I should bill them for business advice not taken.

And those California ports are jammed in part because the state’s politicians stupidly passed a law that means that few trucks older than three years meet the pollution standards. Long-distance truckers, with more business than they can handle anyway, simply avoid trips into and out of the state. Politicians make one decision, thousands of truckers respond with another. No conspiracy. Just stupidity followed by a predictable and reasonable response. Truckers know trucking. Politicians do not.

—Mike Perry, WA4MP