I'm not defending Musk, but he does have a point. We've spent far too much effort pushing kids toward vacuous vocations as lawyers and such and diminishing many more until their world is fashion, Tik-Tok, Star Wars dolls, and video games. I cringe when I see even older Millennials paying hundreds of dollars to buy stupid Lego kits that can only be assembled to make one thing: a crude model of some toy or movie prop. We are " dumber" than we should be by rights... at every age level. Even those heavily invested in something have such narrow viewpoints and experiences today that it's appalling. for example I'd like to think a career in software engineering doesn't preclude having taken machine shop classes in school or learning and practicing a bit of bushcraft as a child.
This commercial being airing in some regions: The guy who posted this put up a poll on the thread. 43% of respondents said "Yes, it's been aired in my market."
I have seen that a lot and I am signed on in BC at the moment. Ontario I guess is really worried that sucking on the teat of the U.S. may get harder. I agree that it could be a great strategic partnership, but Canada has almost no military any longer and they are supposed to be our partners in both NORAD and NATO. How can they contribute more than, say Iceland does? What brought Canada into the spotlight beside their military is that when Trump and Homan reviewed the immigration figures, they saw that, although the southern border has much more traffic in the way of illegals, the northern border is where most of the illegals on the terrorist watchlist were entering. I heard that that was what opened Trump's eyes.
I've always cringed when a member of our generation has said to a kid "Call me John. Mister Brunner is my father's name." Adults are not peers with those younger than we are, especially children. I believe that our generation is the one that started the Arrested Development craze.
Something needs to happen before we find an even bigger crush of economic refugees at our borders. Off topic, but here's a UK perspective: “Everyone Who Can Exit The UK Is Leaving” - Konstantin Kisin
I'm tired of watching videos so I'm not sure what that one's about, but I don't understand why people abandon their own country instead of working to make it better.
I get it. Most of them aren't constructed like a "news bite" and so they often seem to take forever to getting around to making their points. But a problem with the "bite it off" short form is how easily it can be discounted as "just some guy's opinion with nothing to back it up." Sort of between a rock and a hard place. That last video is about high levels of violent domestic crime, government turning on its native citizens, corporate takeovers of housing and farming, joblessness, inflation, censorship, debanking, suppression of native culture, and so on. Things are ugly and people are deciding to run away, leaving for elsewhere in the world. It asks whether a "Trump-like" approach might be a way to reverse the decay.