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Memes of Production

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[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 32 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Look.

The creative urge is also the destructive urge. Right?

And one cant really be held responsible for what other people choose to do with the things one makes. Alfred nobel was trying to make mining safer instead he ended up ushering in a new and terrible era in war. Fritz haber invented the haber process to feed germany, not build bombs! The people who built the early internet are all horrified by what it has become.

Thats just an unfair standard of judgement. Do you think we should never build new things? Content ourselves with fire, perhaps bags knives and wheeled carts if we want to edge things? Even anprims think lean-tos are worth building.

So this last month ive spent designing the restraint system and tactile feedback mechanism for our new r1488 rape missile comissioned by the idf is just cool engineering work. If i didnt do it somebody else would. Somebody else might get it wrong. You know our department lead didnt even consider sensitivity differences in circumcised vs uncircumcised penises for the pilot feedback mechanism? Nobody else considered that an AFAB person might wear the feedback suit. You need a woke kinky queer in here to prevent sub-optimal pleasure for the end user–to prevent hurting more people.

Plus, as an engineer, im special and deserve special treats a six figure salary affords. How dare you suggest i live like a normal person. How DARE you!

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Have you considered renaming the rape missile

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 hours ago

Yes it's now the superrape missile, thanks for your time

while I can't speak on most of this, I will say the most relevant words I ever heard on the subject.

"If you can't predict what some one will use your ideas for to harm another creature. you should never share it as you cannot mitigate it by design". no matter what you make, some one will turn it into a weapon as the desire for weak, small people to supplement themselves through violence is ever present through human history.

greatest weapon of all time was the pen. it's not mightier than the sword at violence, but can silence a sword in a single stroke.

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 hours ago

Pretty much how I feel about anyone in tech working for Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta.

You need the paycheck, fine. I'm not going to judge your circumstances.

But you sold your soul, and please don't try to pretend otherwise.

[–] ashenone@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Dan, the company man, felt loyalty to the corp

After 16 years of service, and a family to support

He actually started to believe the weaponry and chemicals were for national defense

Cause Danny had a mortgage and a boss to answer to

The guilty don't feel guilty, they learn not to

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

And you, young engineer, you who dream of improving the lot of the workers by the application of science to industry - what a sad disappointment, what terrible disillusions await you! You devote the useful energy of your mind to working out the scheme of a railway which, running along the brink of precipices and burrowing into the very heart of mountains of granite, will bind together two countries which nature has separated. But once at work, you see whole regiments of workers decimated by privations and sickness in this dark tunnel - you see others of them returning home carrying with them, maybe, a few pence, and the undoubted seeds of consumption; you see human corpses - the results of a groveling greed - as landmarks along each yard of your road; and, when the railroad is finished, you see, lastly, that it becomes the highway for the artillery of an invading army.

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago

I told a friend group that all that shit needs to be shut down and he cried on about how many jobs they create. He’s deeply Christian btw…