Hey it’s me a tool and die maker.
I can say at least that my company and the larger manufacturers in my town are spending enormous sums of cash getting students in to the trades. It’s not just tool and die that’s suffering, most of the “skilled” trades are bordering on geriatric.
A lot of the kids entering the trades are farm kids, which is another problem entirely. The average age of farmers in the US is close to retirement too.
Thorry84@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I haven’t forgotten Destin trying to push his creationist agenda using his YouTube platform. He makes a lot of good content, but after that I don’t want to watch his stuff anymore. Fuck him for doing something like that.
flubba86@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He is also a staunch Republican, and a Trump supporter. I like some of his videos, but most of them are cringe if you’re actually knowledgeable about the topic he is covering. He researches a topic just enough to come across as the smartest person in the room, while dumbing down concepts and talking down to the audience like we’re infants. You can tell his target audience are poorly educated and easily impressed people from rural America.
aidan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I pretty strongly disagree with that characterization, at least for the manufacturing videos I watched, that I do have experience in. I appreciate how deferential and humble he is to people in his videos even if they’re showing a job that is relatively unremarkable to most people.
I also think
is a pretty mean spirited and stereotype-based thing to say.
ooo@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I watched this video in its entirety and it made me profoundly uncomfortable.
There was a lot of subtext that seems edited out. Yes he’s “humble” in some respects but he’s also willfully ignorant in others, or at least presents as such.
I would not be surprised if in a few years he goes off the deep end.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Really ? he is a Trump supporter ? I know him only from his videos, but that seems out of character for someone versed in the sciences and reasoning. Can you provide a source ? I don’t want to support him with views anymore if that’s true
m0darn@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
In the video where he’s shooting antique guns (or something) with his son, his son always calls him “sir”. Is that a regional thing? It seemed super weird to me.
glimse@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve been following him for years and I don’t really remember him pushing any narrative except the bible verse references at the end, can you be more specific?
It’s obvious he’s religious but he’s a great educator and host so unless it’s affecting his videos, I don’t care what he does with his free time.
Thorry84@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I’ve responded with a link in another reply in this thread.
aidan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When did he do that?
And, if someone has a sincerely held moral belief and they honestly believe other people’s lives would be made better if they heard it, then how is is not morally good from their perspective?
Thorry84@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
He can believe what he wants in his personal time. He can even use his platform to spread his beliefs. However being all about science and then pushing some weird agenda is a whole other thing. He betrayed the trust, so I choose not to watch his stuff anymore.
It was this video: youtu.be/VPSm9gJkPxU
When this video went up it caused quite a fuss online as Destin seems to heavily push an old debunked intelligent design narrative around flagella.
Venator@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
It is, but thier perspective is immoral.
iii@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Believe can cross into delusion and become harmfull. I believe (hihi) creationism is part of the latter, as it also implies a hierarchy between people and other life.
Additionally, all evidence points away from intelligent design. For this youtube channel in particular, it’s sad to see examples of belief over evidence.