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1·11 days agoWell, looking at the Corning company, they specialize in glass wares/technology in general of which heat-resistant kitchenware is a sector as well as bulletproof glass but also mirrors for astronomy. So this seems more like a parallel than sequential development.
There are some interesting cases of companies who have never before even dealt with large scale production suddenly getting awarded military contracts. But tasking some of the largest machine manufacturers of the country such as Ford and Singer with production of military gear during wartime seems hardly surprising.
And I don’t even question the overall narrative of companies doing whatever makes a quick buck. I was more interested in the specific example of a tea company of all places production military goods.
Such as?
Well, illegal slavery is always an option. The opportunities for legal slavery are minimal, though.
Allowing them to be paid fairly shouldn’t be a big deal but it absolutely is.
Not many people realize it but slavery is still legal in the US. Convicted inmates can be forced to work as part of their punishment.
More like “I do two jobs but only get paid for one”.
Don’t get me wrong, I also hate Monopolies, but a company exercising their rights on their own platform? Fine by me. Just don’t use their platform.
What’s so funny about that? Dude might work in a security environment ripe with NDAs.
No, you are not. People regularly equate Git and GitHub, though.
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Banned from lemmy.world for telling a woman she was “Dumber than shit”
Well, that’s not called wrongthink, that’s just being an asshole.
Touché
Well, maybe you subscribe to the wrong subs on the wrong instance?
'murica, fuck yeah!
Hold my bacon, one can patent the idea that a game character switches mounts depending on a given state? (Image 3)
The “Ready Player One” approach might also help.
It is still open source. However, it is not free software anymore.
Hey, don’t disregard the value of scrap metal!