• FedPosterman5000 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    Lmao. This is too real. Was talking with an older colleague who was doing her phd in physics, and working at honeywell on a project she learned was helping develop targeting for cluster bombs. So she quit that and got into studying sediment transport. Insidious is such an understatement for the military industrial complex.

    • 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 days ago

      Do you know what that looks like in practice? Like is it actually subtle or is it actually like the “please engineer something that can shoot a rocket with medical supplies directly at lost hikers who have gone raving mad from isolation and try to hide from it”?

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    They’ve always been a semiconductor company with a side hustle in calculators. The calculators have never been a large share of their revenue.

    But yeah, one of the reasons I left working for them was because of their defense contracts, granting projects that work on semiconductor equipment with military applications.

    They aren’t making the bombs, but they’re supplying the chips for them.

    • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netM
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      I mean yeah but also I would not be surprised if a purely free American market made lots of weapons. American capitalists love bombs