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  • Secondthought_JT [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Good question. On the one hand, yeah, it's a despicable career. On the other, we all have to survive under capitalism. If that's what you're trained to do, get that bag, but you better also agitate to destroy the machine that makes defense companies so lucrative. And heck, I'm not advocating for anything, but having some communists working on these crucial bits of US military equipment could be...interesting

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Lol I've definitely pondered that last point. However, sneaking something by QA would require it to work most of the time (unless you managed to obfuscate the sabotage somehow), so even if you get away with it, congrats, you made a drone that malfunctions 4% of the time but otherwise kills children as usual. Not great.

      • Faresh@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        However, sneaking something by QA would require it to work most of the time (unless you managed to obfuscate the sabotage somehow), so even if you get away with it, congrats, you made a drone that malfunctions 4% of the time

        I think a more reliable way to negatively impact the US military, for someone in that position, would be to leak classified information on the system's design and capabilities.

      • GaveUp [she/her]
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        9 months ago

        Nah, if you were gonna do this the trick is definitely to be extremely incompetent so that you fuck up the projects but not so incompetent that they instantly fire you

        Keep making minor mistakes in your work that people have to keep fixing, suggest poor design ideas and try to get them approved, make the systems and weapons as bloated and inefficient as possible but in a way that makes your boss look good (which is basically what they're already doing)