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

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.

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?’

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

I don’t think anyone with an engineering degree would believe there’s a hell. Neither should you.

I offered to leave my senior design group and find another when they were going to build a system for the military as their project. They were nice enough to change it to an automated feeder.

People talking about morality when space Jesus explicitly told us to EXTERMINATE all the XENOS

I just wanted to build scientific instruments on satellites. Sucks when the company you worked at for 18 years gets sold to an arms dealer.

I desperately wanted to get a degree in mechanical engineering so I could go to work for an arms company (like Heckler & Kock, FN Herstal, etc.). Never happened, got an art degree instead. Then I met a guy that owns a very small firearms company, and, well, yeesh. It’s a brutally hard business. He makes a good product, he has good morals and ethics, but the market is so saturated that anyone smaller than the largest arms companies are hemorrhaging money. Glad I didn’t try to live my dream now.

I may not like what governments do with arms, but good goddamn, the arms themselves are neat.

My university is practically owned by weapons manufacturers which sucks. Idk if that’s the norm or not

I’ll be honest, I’d rather the best engineers be there to create weapons that are extremely precise. The weapons are gonna be made regardless, but I’ve seen photos of what happens to cities when bombers are dropping unguided munitions. Back during WW2, if you wanted to hit a factory in London, you didn’t just drop 1-2 bombs, you dropped hundreds of bombs, you flattened absolutely everything in the area because that was the only way you were gonna hit your target.

At least with precision munitions, if you’re doing war ‘nicely’, you only hit what you intend to hit, not your target + everything else even remotely close to said target. With precision munitions, you can’t ‘accidentally’ bomb a hospital, so when you inevitably do bomb a hospital, you don’t get to go “Oh oops no it’s not my fault it’s the bombs’ fault!”. The sights are crystal clear, the plane/drone moves exactly where you want it to, there’s nothing interfering with the guidance, the bomb locked onto the target you wanted to hit, and you dropped it, all thanks to engineers making those systems. You had everything going for you as a bomber to know exactly what that target was, and you dropped the bomb anyway.

Tools don’t kill. It’s the ones wielding the tools that do.

A black home bomb is harmless until someone uses it to wipe out an entire solar system.

I’m at the point who cares. Someone is going to do it. You might as well make money doing it.