Here's a great idea: let's not produce any weapons and disarm unilaterally. What could go wrong?
this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2025
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It's almost winter, I thinks it's freaking cold today.
Doing engineering is more like an any% run to do something that eventually, even just statistically, hurts people.
So. Stop enabling us, scientists :P
Lots of people are better off for science, it's the capitalists that ask us to wield it against others
Communists and capitalists both made WMDs and murdered millions for their own gain
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This is part of the reason I moved to CA. As an engineer I'm always going to have some kind of environmental impact, and I think a direct initiative is necessary for the public to consent.
This comment is known to the state of California to cause birth defects.
Engineers are rich, right? So let's blame the working class in this one particular case. /s
I think this is also true for investing in war companies (its the department of war now, so no need to keep up the defense charade), even if it's just part of an index fund or ETF.
This is literally everyone with a 401k.
Yes, violence is literally all of capitalism.
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Department of War*
DBA Department of War Crimes
Some of us turned down Lockheed and Raytheon.
Yeah, their equity package wasn't as good as Anduril.
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I offered to leave my senior design group and find another when they were going to build a system for the military as their project. They were nice enough to change it to an automated feeder.
The feeder will be used to force feed prisoners.
dagnabbit
Weapons can be used for defense or offense. Just be sure that you can sleep at night with the potential consequences - and that your work may be used on the wrong side just as easily as the right side.
On the other hand, if you're working for an Israeli defense company, you can be pretty certain where your results are going to go, and should maybe just... not.
think it's hot today?
No
For my computer science internship I just dodged a drone-shaped bullet... I'm working on abstract verification of access policies instead
I’m working on abstract verification of access policies instead
😅 Here's an article on how that contributes to killing people: https://arxiv.org/html/2508.17043v1
Noooooo 😭
It's not the kind of validation I do tho 🤓😉
I just wanted to build scientific instruments on satellites. Sucks when the company you worked at for 18 years gets sold to an arms dealer.
Sadly the job security in weapon manufacturer is pretty good. Least it was when I worked in one 15 years back. Pay was shite though.