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This is only barely related but when we bought our house the (ancient) gas stove was malfunctioning. I looked up the brand (Modern Maid, I think) and was very s
by gdubs 8y ago
This is only barely related but when we bought our house the (ancient) gas stove was malfunctioning. I looked up the brand (Modern Maid, I think) and was very surprised to learn they were a subsidiary of Raytheon. The thought of a gas appliance made by a weapons manufacturer was, a little unsettling. Replaced that thing pretty quickly.
- MS90 8y agoDon't go looking too deep into ol' General Electric then.
- sl1ck731 8y agoI don't understand this. Were you afraid your stove was a weapon in disguise?
- gdubs 8y agoNo, it was a joke. I only know Raytheon as a weapons / explosives company. Had no idea they had a consumer products arm at some point (unlike GE which at one point owned everything including film studios, which is fairly common knowledge.) Given that we were concerned we had a leaky gas appliance...
- whenchamenia 8y agoBetter throw out all your GE, GM, and even Mattel products then. Nearly every major manufacturer does, or has at one time, been involved in weapons manufacture.
- sl1ck731 8y agoBasically any computing device as well since all the processor manufacturers have defense contracts. Interestingly there is a rendering of what appears to be a Predator drone on the AMD website: https://www.amd.com/en/products/embedded-aero-defense-solutions https://www.amd.com/en/products/embedded-aero-defense-soluti...
- maimeowmeow 8y agoThats it, Im only going to support intel from now on. /s
- totoglazer 8y agoAlso those hipster glass canning jars from Ball.
- gdubs 8y agoPeople: I replaced it because it was malfunctioning, not actually because it had a connection to Raytheon. It was too old to be worth fixing.