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

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

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.

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.

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

So. Stop enabling us, scientists :P

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

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.

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.

Good that I only work for Palantir then

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.

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...

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.

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

To quote Casually Explained:

"The only real question engineering students and new grads need to know the answer to is 'When is it ok to violate your moral principles?'

...

Exactly. It has to be at least 6 figures."

For my computer science internship I just dodged a drone-shaped bullet... I'm working on abstract verification of access policies instead

I have no ethical qualms with those who make weapons. Horizontal communities need the means to defend themselves against external domination. The dilemma is, under capitalism, dominators employ weapons against those unable to defend themselves thereby realizing the idea of Hell on Earth.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work-for-an-evil-company-but-outside-work-im-actually-a-really-good-person