That moment when you quit the arms company and joined the legs company:

Defense industry, law enforcement, and surveillance are all instant dealbreakers for me whenever a recruiter reaches out to me. And sadly that seems like the vast majority of positions for which recruiters are looking for candidates.

That or AI shit.

I'm so tired of the tech industry.

Yea I'm an LGBTQ+ ally:

The ally they're talking about:

L ockheed Martin

G eneral Dynamics

B AE

T exas Instruments

Q inetiq

"our hiring system is even less discriminatory than our targeting system!" -their motto, probably

I just use my skills to make gooner games. My soul is pure. To heaven I shall go. Unironically.

This is why I focused on graphics hardware for so long.... Then some arsehole came up with running AI on GPUs.

My brother in law is using his engineering degree to work for various arms companies, including DARPA. His wife justifies it by saying "He only makes things for good countries like the US".

A few years ago, he, his wife, my wife, another sister in law and his kids were in a car, and he was talking about why it's justifiable to drone-strike school buses. He said "Well, there were some really bad people on those buses." I ask "What makes them bad?", and he says "You know, they make bombs, that sort of thing."

I turned to him and said "YOU make bombs. By your rationale, this car with your entire family is every bit as much a justifiable target as those school buses."

The entire car went silent, and later, my wife thanked me for not going any further.

He's the most morally-bankrupt person I've ever met, and I hate being in the same room as him. His wife isn't much better, and is the epitome of the portion of the working class that's been tricked into thinking they're better than that. She'll handwave away the fact that in her career, she's been directly responsible for firing thousands of people "for the good of the company".

Some of us turned down Lockheed and Raytheon.

I may be an engineer, but I am still too fucking stupid to get a job at an arms company

Doing engineering is more like an any% run to do something that eventually, even just statistically, hurts people.

So. Stop enabling us, scientists :P

Gods, I'm considering Job hopping and I saw Lockheed was hiring for my role, less experience, less certs, full remote, and quadruple my pay.

I had to block them on indeed and LinkedIn. I hated that I was considering it.

I don't think anyone with an engineering degree would believe there's a hell. Neither should you.

Instructions unclear, I work at a prosthetics company.

Not an engineer, but I have I have Asian parents, if I were an engineer and worked for a genocidal dictator, they wouldn't care, that's success anyways.

So... yea...

people value success over ethics

welcome to life

society...

Good that I only work for Palantir then

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.

The groomers in the MIC have claimed soooo many kids who just wanted to make video games. Gross and sad.

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.