Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a "super bad feeling" about the economy and needs to cut about 10% of salaried staff at the electric carmaker, he said in emails seen by Reuters.
He just wanted to get rid of people without paying them their contracted severance. Weasel fuck.
Buy, steal, find online military survival manuals (US Army Survival FM 21-76 manual is available in full as a PDF online. There should be a survival manual for US Pilots for when they fall from the sky that should be pretty solid but I've never taken the time to find one). If you're not in the US, I don't see why other countries wouldn't have something similar available tailored to their local environments/language/culture). Survival manuals marketed for civilians but try to never pay full price, always look for discounted/free, civilian ones typically have the most instances of nonsensical explanations and incorrect diagrams/descriptions - this can be amusing but also dangerous. Skim through them well before trying to do any of the things, check out videos online to get an idea of "how" the task might look, then make some time to go out and attempt the task. Be prepared to spend a lot of time practicing. Never put yourself into a "survival situation" alone to do any dangerous task before you already are comfortable confident you can complete the task in a non-survival setting. Electronic copies are great for when you need things to do when bored and to figure out which manuals you can find that are reliable, but make an effort to get a few physical copies of manuals that you feel are the most reliable with one going with you for field training and one that stays safe back home. NOTE: Its rarely a good idea to need to learn something when you need to know it. Much better to learn about how to apply a tourniquet well before meeting a casualty that is bleeding out than it is to try to learn right then what to do.
Get lucky and have a friend/family member/acquaintance who is into this stuff and already gone through the two things mentioned above and see if they can be an in person instructor. Somebody who can 1) watch what you're doing and critique your technique and 2) go through the troubleshooting parts of failing at a task that pretty much NO survival manual takes the time to go in to.
how do I learn wilderness survival without joining the dang army?
Can't tell if sarcasm or not, so...
Spend money and go to a wilderness survival camp.
Buy, steal, find online military survival manuals (US Army Survival FM 21-76 manual is available in full as a PDF online. There should be a survival manual for US Pilots for when they fall from the sky that should be pretty solid but I've never taken the time to find one). If you're not in the US, I don't see why other countries wouldn't have something similar available tailored to their local environments/language/culture). Survival manuals marketed for civilians but try to never pay full price, always look for discounted/free, civilian ones typically have the most instances of nonsensical explanations and incorrect diagrams/descriptions - this can be amusing but also dangerous. Skim through them well before trying to do any of the things, check out videos online to get an idea of "how" the task might look, then make some time to go out and attempt the task. Be prepared to spend a lot of time practicing. Never put yourself into a "survival situation" alone to do any dangerous task before you already are comfortable confident you can complete the task in a non-survival setting. Electronic copies are great for when you need things to do when bored and to figure out which manuals you can find that are reliable, but make an effort to get a few physical copies of manuals that you feel are the most reliable with one going with you for field training and one that stays safe back home. NOTE: Its rarely a good idea to need to learn something when you need to know it. Much better to learn about how to apply a tourniquet well before meeting a casualty that is bleeding out than it is to try to learn right then what to do.
Get lucky and have a friend/family member/acquaintance who is into this stuff and already gone through the two things mentioned above and see if they can be an in person instructor. Somebody who can 1) watch what you're doing and critique your technique and 2) go through the troubleshooting parts of failing at a task that pretty much NO survival manual takes the time to go in to.