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Had a brief chat with an engineering lecturer at a university today, he was feeling rather depressed by his students aiming for defence careers.
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2026
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“When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor.” - Paulo Freire
Argh, shit, I had a copy of Pedagogy of the Oppressed nearby that I coulda given him. I'm clearly off my "giving people books on a flimsy excuse" game.
Thanks, {S.T.E.M.|DARPA}!
Not that I want to say people should work for the mic, but at this point, are there any other jobs left?
Right, but I'm pointing towards the fact that's not an accident. the whole S.T.E.M. push was funded via DARPA and the worst companies around. Go back and look at like MAKER Space Tour type vids from Adam Savage (who is a reasonably decent guy) and they were all funded by Chevron and what have you. 
STEM is a psyop fr (I did STEM)
oil, gas, pharmaceuticals, ICE, health insurance
Oh I almost forgot, AI and insider trading and crypto pump-and-dumps and gambling
Stahp! 
You have to admit, it's kind of weird how whitey only goes to the moon when they're scared shitless of falling behind on missile technology, and need to pump up aerospace engineering enrollment numbers.
Hard to have the next Von Neumann when your country's children are malnourished and illiterate and a significant political force is mainly concerned with making sure they're even more indoctrinated and inoculated against reasoning.
Surely the brilliant failsons hiding in plain site just haven't applied themselves yet because we didn't do flashy enough billion dollar science stunts.
Someone get Andrew Yang on the line I have an idea for a unity ticket.
I talk to uni students on a regular basis and many of them unfortunately do not give a single fuck about what the companies they are trying to get hired at do. All the highest paying jobs in engineering are at ghoul factories like Google and Boeing, so if they aren't enthusiastic, they're at least making up whatever excuse they need to for it to be okay. Like "I'm just trying to be the data guy, I won't be working on missiles, so it's fine".
I know a number of former engineering and physics majors who changed major after developing a conscience. Most of them sefinitely don't care though. I have a comrade in aerospace engineering and they refer to their peers as "knowledgable but apathetic about their contribution to slaughter at best".
At first I thought it was a parody. Nope. He's a lib law brain dipshit who appears on MS NOW.
Wild ride of a tweet, infantilizing his wife, he's a scumbag, then his wife works for the mic, who's also scum.
what's microsoft now?
It's the new branding for MSNBC
oh. people should deadname corporations tho
Ideally both deadnamed and their actual current corporate ownership should be identified.
Versant Media Group in this case, which is a media holding group spun off from Comcast a few months ago as a vehicle to dump their cable channels (if I had to guess its probably a move to reduce scrutiny and give the appearance of voluntary action regarding antitrust practices. but it might just be a way for comcast to sell all the cable channels in an easy package to sell to corporate raiders who can strip the wire out of the walls.)
Edit: Conveniently the deal to spin off the former Comcast properties into Versant allowed Comcast to offload those things into a new listed company and Comcast shareholders avoided paying any tax on the deal by being compensated in shares of Versant, if I'm reading correctly. This was Comcast's publically stated intent with how they set up the whole thing.
Quirk chungus millennials who lived their teens/early 20s through the GWOT became new yuppies under Obummer and decided that working for the heckin death star program was f*cking cool science.
THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO EAT HOT CHIP ANYMORE 
Nuke it from space, the only way to be sure
Wonder why the US MIC is failing to achieve any strategic goals or maintain hegemony? 
Maybe all those anti-gen-Z memes were right. The US is falling behind because young people here don't know how to do basic shit.
imo it's mostly failson syndrome, the nepotism and loyalty to propaganda reality is most rewarded with promotion, so all the managers of empire are now the most incompetent and immature people skilled at huffing their own farts
Trump is just so damn emblematic of this process.
Imagine being this type of guy. Your wife is obviously just trying to be cute and silly and talk to you, and you post it online publicly, framing it as a "WAMEN BAD!" thing.
Imagine being this type of guy.
I'd strongly prefer not to.
It sucks because sharing vulnerabilities and laughing at yourselves together is such an intimate bonding process. I guess the straights still aren't okay even after all these years.