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I strongly object to building weapons. It is not right. Raise your consciousness, young hacker. I grew up building homemade rocket engines to power model rocke
by clbrmbr 7mo ago
I strongly object to building weapons. It is not right. Raise your consciousness, young hacker.
I grew up building homemade rocket engines to power model rockets. I even programmed a flight computer in ASM.
I was always quite risk averse and, then being only shortly after 9/11, I told my friend I worried what we were doing may be illegal or otherwise get us in trouble. So he picked up the phone and called the county fire marshal. My friend explained EXACTLY what we were doing, down to the potassium nitrate and the homemade black powder and nitrocellulose igniters. The fire marshal paused for a long moment and said “it’s not against any law I’m aware of. Just don’t start any fires.” We proceeded to have many successful flights and participated in NERF (a rocketry club that used to get 12kft clearance from FAA before the govt started stonewalling us).
I feel very fortunate to have grown up in an environment where that was permitted. I fear that my children will not have the same privilege—for many reasons, but one factor is people putting violent things like this on GitHub. Please take it down.
- ivanjermakov 7mo agoI was suprised seeing american youtube folks building rockets (including orientation and guidance systems) in their free time. In many countries doing this is borderline jail time.
- atemerev 7mo agoUnbombed people are cute.
- infinitewars 7mo agoThat's why it's so important for people who can hold a moral line, to do so. Violence breeds violence. A good engineer in America can afford avoiding weapons work.
- muyuu 7mo agoit's good work if it helps the right people
- infinitewars 7mo agoWho are the "right" people to kill? What happens when govt decides to aim your weapons at the "wrong" people?
- muyuu 7mo agothe people who are invading another country in a war of conquest, for instance you seem to believe we live in a world where there no longer are such wars of single-handed aggression we don't live in that world
- steve-atx-7600 7mo agoRight. Not knowing human nature doesn’t mean you won’t be affected by it in ways that you just haven’t thought of or don’t believe could happen to you.
- infinitewars 7mo ago> a war of conquest Israel invading Gaza is kind of proving the point? Those are American weapons bombing civilians.
- steve-atx-7600 7mo agoHamas turned Gaza into a terrorist military installation with tunnels and operatives under and within a heavily populated urban environment. Their civilians were heavily dependent on foreign aid, much of which was used to buy arms and construct the elaborate tunnel system used to stage the Oct attack. If they were in my back yard and I had power and military force, I’d try to minimize civilian casualties but I wouldn’t stop until all of said military infrastructure was completely dismantled. I would prioritize the safety of my own anrmed forces over Gazan civilian casualties. The ideology of those in charge of Gaza and Iran is dedicated to killing Jews and oppressing their own people. I’m not Muslim or Jewish. I just have empathy for Israelis having to live being terrorized constantly while they live in a society that values education, entrepreneurship and freedom. No Jews got into planes to kill Americans. No Jews go out and buy assault rifles and mass shoot American cities. I think there’s a mind virus rooted in Muslim cultures that damns them as well as anyone they are hell bent on terrorizing. Oh, and no Jews killed civilians just because they drew a cartoon of their God.
- atemerev 7mo agoA moral line is to help the right side with all heart, all mind and all might. If you know any other way to make Russia get off from Ukraine besides tons of cheap weapons - I'm listening. Otherwise, weapons are a necessity.
- jjmarr 7mo agoIt's impossible to get a job nowadays so new grads will do anything to stick out. You don't really understand the desperation we're going through right now. OP wants to be visited by the feds.
- ryandrake 7mo agoSeems like a one way road--the way things are getting stricter and stricter. My parents did shit when they were growing up that would have landed me in prison, and I did plenty of things growing up that would have landed my kid in prison. I fear the next generation is going to grow up confined to a bubble where they're only allowed to stay home and mindlessly consume corporate approved product, never make things, never build things, never destroy things, never hack a computer game, never reverse engineer a wire protocol, never go out and walk around and explore, never race things, never jump off things, never blow things up or burn them down, never protest things or yell at someone, never get into a fistfight, never take physical risks and learn what hurts and what doesn't. In 2050, growing up means just 1. go to church, or 2. watch streaming.
- swiftcoder 7mo ago> I strongly object to building weapons. It is not right. I used to object to building weapons. Now the EU is engaged in a proxy war with Russia, and the US has repeatedly threatening to annex Greenland. Suddenly the need for a domestic weapons supply chain does not seem so farfetched
- Mars008 7mo agoThat's what US constitution is all about. The people should have power more than just voting. When they don't have it it's like EU. Even legitimate candidate can be easily taken out like in Romania. EU leaders prized it. None even said sorry when accusations appeared to be fake and intentionally fabricated. In this case even voting power has been taken from citizens. Nobody can do anything about it. Multi-step voting systems is another example of minimizing citizens' voting powers. And no legal (and illegal) way for armed protests. Very safe total control. In EU it's called 'democracy'. For comparison Putin is also democratically rules for 26 years now. At least that's what their media tells.