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The Economist
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🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Governments particularly in the rich world are struggling to get young people in uniform. Will some form of conscription become necessary? In America, how remote working husbands may be liberating their wives (10:19). And, the generational hunting prowess of the killer whale (16:53).
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. Hello and I'm Jason Palmer. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:21.0 | The pandemic your world. |
| 0:24.3 | The pandemic and the popularization of working from home transformed many people's family lives |
| 0:29.6 | in some form or another. |
| 0:31.8 | Marriages in particular, some American couples have adapted rather flexibly, meet the remote husband. |
| 0:40.0 | And Killer Wales didn't get that nickname without reason. |
| 0:45.0 | They engage in brutal coordinated hunts. |
| 0:48.0 | What's truly amazing is that their vicious techniques are passed down through the generations. |
| 0:53.0 | Violent though it is, that is a hallmark of culture. |
| 0:57.0 | First up, though, though. |
| 1:03.0 | In early April I was out in the |
| 1:10.0 | In early April I was out in the forest near the Dutch town of Erbelow, watching 70 young men and women crawling through the mud and firing blanks from their assault rifles. |
| 1:20.0 | Matt Steinglass is our deputy Europe editor. |
| 1:23.0 | They were taking part in the Diniarr or service year, |
| 1:27.0 | a new program that lets young Dutch sign up for a year-long trial in the armed forces |
| 1:32.0 | rather than the regular four-year enlistment term. |
| 1:34.1 | And you're learning a lot about yourself. |
| 1:39.1 | It's a fun experience, good experience, you learn things. |
| 1:42.3 | Maybe it's not for you, you learn things. |
| 1:42.8 | Maybe it's not for you, maybe it is, |
| 1:44.1 | that's where you can find everything out. |
| 1:46.0 | I think that the DIA is upcoming, |
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