From: user@example.net   
      
   On 1/27/2026 6:03 PM, john larkin wrote:   
      
   >> The fundamental service johns tend to be paying for is for her to go   
   >> away afterwards, not to fall in love with them..   
   >>   
   >> Anyway I can't imagine professing my love for my GF after working all   
   >> day in the weapons biz, like: "What'd you do today, honey?" "Oh you   
   >> know, worked on some software for this thing that'll probably blow some   
   >> poor bugger's limbs or head off, maybe make him a paraplegic or his wife   
   >> a widow and kids orphans. Yeah I was really laying down some solid   
   >> murderbot code at Murder Inc. today! Anyway, glad to be home, love ya   
   >> babe. What's for dinner?"   
   >>   
   >> Maybe they just say "it's classified" and leave it at that. I can see why.   
   >   
   > If this post was from anyone else, I'd assume they were just having a   
   > bad day.   
   >   
   >   
   > John Larkin   
   > Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center   
   > Lunatic Fringe Electronics   
      
      
   I'm just saying it's disappointing when the party of "small government"   
   gets all excited over militaria. The "problems" involved aren't   
   particularly interesting and the "solutions" are mostly buggy junk, anyway.   
      
   "Our A.I.-powered platform processes battlefield data in real time,   
   adapting to changing conditions without human intervention,” the   
   pamphlet says. “Neutralize more targets at a fraction of legacy system   
   costs. Deploy at scale to achieve overwhelming force multiplication   
   against sophisticated threats.” The pamphlet claimed a “future monthly   
   production” of more than 6,000 units.   
      
   As usual the NYT pretty much just repeats their military-industrial   
   master's breathless optimism about the new junk verbatim. I could just   
   read the sales brochure   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)