Alaska Milkrun
Alaska Milkrun
Reasons I don't like the new MILKRUN video ad:
1: the guy milking the cow has a ring through his nose, but the cow doesn't
2: the cow's udder in close-up shots has 6 teats 🤯, then goes back to having the normal, anatomically correct 4 teats when shown further away.
#Rex airlines regional fleet, staff and operating licence needs to be brought out by the federal government immediately. Regional towns and remote settlements are dependent on the air links to major centres for healthcare, education, cultural and kinship links - and often just basic supplies and access for key workers to their patients, service users and partners in remote areas.
This shouldn't be necessary. Ideally our remote communities would be have more internal capacity to be basically self-sufficient, with networks between them for mutual support, and not be reliant on the sporadic drip-feed of "good will" and "benevolence" from Sydney, Brisbane or wherever, and air links would be "good to have" but not a matter of basic survival. Yet, here we are - so while we're here, let's not fuck it up.
This is fascinating! Here's what it's like to live in a remote Alaskan village and commute 220 miles RT by plane to shop for groceries each quarter. https://www.insider.com/what-its-like-flying-plane-for-groceries-alaska-living-2022-11
Today, a very rich 4th lecture of the 3rd and last unit of #ROAR (Real Applications of #orms – https://github.com/aliceraffaele/ROAR).
We started by presenting the final project to the students: they are gonna solve a real industrial problem on #milkrun proposed by a student's parent – 1/n
Why not introducing a little bit of Operations Research in higher secondary schools? - GitHub - aliceraffaele/ROAR: Why not introducing a little bit of Operations Research in higher secondary schools?