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[–] fuckmyphonefuckingsu@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

the existence of a shoot-on-sight no-go zone several kilometers wide opens up options for some interesting hardware.

mondays

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago (7 children)

This is the mindset of terminally STEM-brained people. I had to unlearn so much of that "this is very interesting problem when seen in isolation, i don't need to think about anything else" after leaving engineering school.

[–] SnAgCu@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One time we had a guest lecturer come in who'd done a lot of work for the US Navy and NATO

Somebody asked about the ethics of building weapons for the US and he said "Well, the way I see it there are bad guys out in the world, and we have to protect the innocent people from them." I probably turned 30% communister that day

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

"Well, the way I see it there are bad guys out in the world, and we have to protect the innocent people from them.

How kind of him to design the weapons we will use to get rid of capitalists.

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