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Total Amish victory

Amish people use modern tech too they just have laws against grids (so, the internet, power grids, etc)

They basically decide on tech on a case by case basis. It's not *just* grids, but yeah, they stay off grids. Related to the OP, they also happen to be pacifists (although that's not the motive for the tech rejection).

Define “tech”

The kind with computers

I just started a job with a company that makes precision optics and laser interferometers. Is that “tech”?

The internet was a DARPA project. The graphical web browser was invented at a lab for calculating nuclear payloads. UNIX was developed as part of the Bell System, inextricable from the MIC. Cell phones are based on military radio technology. GPS was classified .mil tech. Let’s gooooooo

100% of early computer research was military, and not dual-use, either. It was specifically for war.

You know what is nasty defense tech top to bottom? Vocoders. Roger from Zapp has some questions to answer.

Alan Turing would have so much to answer for around the furtherance of computer science in service of the military-industrial complex if he hadn't been prosecuted to suicide for being homosexual

Cyber security as a whole is largely grown from government and military

I don’t see how this doesn’t become really bizarre, really fast That’s all manufacturing jobs, including basically all artisan jobs. Depending on how this is defined, it‘s also most customer service jobs?

good point

a really interesting rabbit hole is to think of the last two decades as labor spiting the military connections and then being reeled back because corporate hubris needed to be paid for with government contracts

Anything that can be done in Emacs is ethical by design. So as long as we can all stay inside emacs...

Posted using bluemacs.el, I was really hoping it'd leave behind some fun telltale metadata identifying it as the client, but maybe that's not a thing.