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Public statement source · YT839
Thanksgiving Week! Jerky is back! Frankie's Free Range Meat
The mechanism that later produces the C016 grievance, stated here about a different product entirely. A third-party supplier withdraws; the response contemplated is not a legal remedy but buying equipment and making the input himself. Recorded as pattern context, not as a case link — no supplier is named, no dispute is asserted, and he describes the supplier's decision without complaint. Possible case/dispute link: none identified.
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we are running out of the beef powder which our supplier will no longer sell us so when we get into our new facility and get some more equipment we should be able to make the beef powder ourselves
The mechanism that later produces the C016 grievance, stated here about a different product entirely. A third-party supplier withdraws; the response contemplated is not a legal remedy but buying equipment and making the input himself. Recorded as pattern context, not as a case link — no supplier is named, no dispute is asserted, and he describes the supplier's decision without complaint. Possible case/dispute link: none identified.
you know it's not like you come up with a natural organic idea and get rich off of it what happens is maybe you sell a little bit of it but the big corporate businesses that have billions or you know dozens or hundreds of millions of dollars just ask you'll Turf their own new company use their control of the media to sell it and make the money themselves so
A second dated instance of the copying / idea-theft / media-suppression grievance that the addendum records being stated on 2022-11-09 — 12 days before this video, computed in code (2022-11-09 → 2022-11-21). The trigger here is concrete and dateable: he says he checked "yesterday" and found "like five different companies" selling the natural pomade he launched "three years ago". No filing, threatened filing or court is mentioned; the complaint is commercial, not legal. Possible case/dispute link: none licensed. He names nobody — no company, product, person or platform — so direction trap 5 applies in full. The grievance shape resembles DSP003 and the C048 plagiarism claims, but a matching grievance is not a party link. pomade returns zero across all 23 CSVs.
not really sure the manufacturer that we're having make the bill tongue had some issues with the humidity or something in there maybe it was the air circulation I don't know in there in their machine and they couldn't figure out the recipe but maybe it'll end up working out maybe we'll have to wait until we get in our new facility and get like a special machine to make the built on
This is the C016 pattern in miniature, on a product that never became a lawsuit, which is what makes it useful rather than circular. A contract manufacturer fails to deliver; the stated fallback is to buy a machine and do it in-house. Forty-one days earlier in the same slice (IegVk_gXRuU, 2022-10-11) the potato-chip manufacturer is overcharging, and 36 days later (5v_oKR6vxtw, 2022-12-27) no chip manufacturer can be found at all — both intervals computed in code from the two publish dates. The archive therefore records the "buy the machine" response as his standing answer to contract-manufacturer failure, months before the Alibaba purchase that C016 pleads. That is a generalisation about business conduct, not about filing conduct, hence the factor. Possible case/dispute link: none identified for the biltong matter itself; bears on C016 (Tufano v. Alibaba) only as context for the decision pattern, and no party, machine or transaction in C016 is named here.