The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph
https://www.mikeayles.com/blog/heavy-haulage-basics/
#HackerNews #Physics #Economics #HeavyHaulage #Logistics #Transportation
OnlineFirst - "Shifting sands and ecological uncertainties: An urban political ecology of dredging in Mombasa" by Louis Cyuzuzo:
#UrbanPoliticalEcology #Infrastructure #PortDevelopment #Dredging #CoastalEnvironments #Africa #PoliticalEconomy #Logistics
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486261420090
3/ & if we live near shipping corridors, pressure officials not to chase growth over the rights and health of folks who live near the corridors
(note I said our stuff is bound to be waste from the moment it's created, not moment it's purchased. see, e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/14/los-angeles-cargo-theft-union-pacific )
4/ "the container is in some sense both an epoch-making design object, & an imaginative opening. It begs us to look beyond or within the banality of the box, & outward into the myriad ways that circulatory systems become wounds on our lives & architectural landscapes"
https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/06-object-politics/container-stacking-packing-moving-world-charmaine-chua
2/ ofc since I don't work for Wirecutter, my conclusion is a good deal more dismal than "please buy as much as you want, just be a tiny bit more selective"
most of this stuff is headed quickly to a landfill from the moment it's created. we should all buy less, buy more secondhand, repair what we can
3/ & if we live near shipping corridors, pressure officials not to chase growth over the rights and health of folks who live near the corridors
(note I said our stuff is bound to be waste from the moment it's created, not moment it's purchased. see, e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/14/los-angeles-cargo-theft-union-pacific )
"Most people said they hadn’t really thought about where their stuff went after they sent it back"
I've been writing a little bit about "reverse logistics" & watched a pallet unboxing video last year for research...
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/mystery-amazon-pallet-unboxing/
archive link: https://archive.ph/NO3Xo
Here is some literal new shiny.
Our SPARC tokamak's donut-shaped vacuum vessel will hold a superhot plasma, the machine's fusion fuel. Here's how we got the first half of that vessel to our HQ in Devens, Massachusetts. This was a design, engineering, fabrication, and transportation feat.
#FusionEnergy #Electricity #Science #Logistics #SPARC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvruKRhy5aE
In the past I lead and organized small teams if that's relevant for the job.
Motivating good communication in the team and asking people how they feel and what they need to do work and denying whatever empty jira ticket the boss created that morning thinking it's super obvious and lacks a description despite the guideline saying so. That sort of thing.
I'm pretty ok at orga / team stuff but I don't need it to be part of new job. Usually I only end up there by filling a power vacuum.
I think these parts already show a lot of what I can do / how I think.
I'm really content with 100 % #remotework
My current employer is just a walk away but we only meet up once per week to eat kebab. That office is a ghost town and #remote works quite fine for us. Some of my most important colleagues I work with every day I never met irl.
Currently working @ #Logistics but I feel like it never fell in love with it. I'm ok with writing logistics software but I'm really open for anything
Throughout the 1970s, the Wages for Housework movement developed an analysis of women’s reproductive labour, “housework” broadly conceived, as a primary site for mobilization.
Silvia Federici was a cofounder of the movement, working within the New York Wages for Housework Committee from 1972 to 1977.
Sarah Jaffa has reviewed her book: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/wages-for-houseworks-radical-vision/
#domesticLabour #houseWork #unpaid #care #NYC #history #feminism #family #home #parenting #maleSupremacy #SilviaFederici
"I put laundry in the machine, forget about it — wet, unspun — and find it dried and folded in the basket. The dishwasher gets unloaded before I even notice it is on. Sometimes one of us has a hard day and disappears while the other two pick up the slack. Sometimes two of us are down and there’s still one left to make beans on toast for dinner. These are not spectacular acts, but they are the glue."
A personal essay by @kristiedegaris: https://archive.ph/AgiTR#selection-1953.113-1953.513
#parenting #cohabiting #domesticLabour #houseWork #unpaid #care #Scotland #feminism #family #home #logistics #ADHD
#logistics and #transportation nerds, is there a resource that shows the major port to port routes? For example, I'd like to be able to understand what % of a given port's cargo arrives from which other ports. Thanks!