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[-] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 196 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Usually when companies do this it bothers me because it is tone deaf pandering. But with Raytheon I don't feel the same way because I think these lunatics actually believe this message. They were sponsoring gay pride parades in the late 00s, way before it was cool to be gay. There is something about an unironic murder cult of gay environmentalist engineers that fascinates me.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 77 points 4 months ago
[-] Rognaut@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Portal reference 👍

[-] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I have a sort of meme version of this read by glados saved on my phone lol

[-] Justas@sh.itjust.works 45 points 4 months ago

In other news, Monsanto was ranked as #1 trans friendly workplace before it got acquired by Bayer.

[-] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

I guess when we've banned all the books, we can start blaming GMOs for all the femboy smut on the internet?

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[-] Artisian@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago

I mean... missiles are the most direct 'degrowth' implementation I've seen.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

If you’re an engineer working for the military industrial complex they don’t really care who you are so long as your soul has that price tag. And I know a decent portion of the people doing it feel guilty and try to mentally minimize the damage it does.

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[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 58 points 4 months ago

Raytheon, I don't think you can greenwash weapon manufacturing.

[-] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 56 points 4 months ago

For every person you kill we plant a tree. It's both good for the environment and a very visible kill count.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 14 points 4 months ago

You could argue that just killing people is statistically good for the planet.

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

And if it takes out a plane, that's pretty effective, too!

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[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

amazon regrowth speed run

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[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 50 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't think that's actually real.

Also a fun fact: Sea Sparrows are some of the missiles used in Ukraine for air defense right now. They're launching then from Soviet land-based anti-aircraft vehicles somehow.

[-] reflex@kbin.social 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They’re launching then from Soviet land-based anti-aircraft vehicles somehow.

When they do this, it's called a Sea Spaciva. 😏

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago

Thought it was a European sparrow rather than a north American.

Little faster due to a lower unladen weight.

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 months ago

Are you suggesting anti-air missiles migrate?

[-] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

All I'm saying is, it's not a matter of fuel efficiency, it's a simple matter of weight ratios. A one ton missile cannot be manufactured and deployed without a comparably sized carbon footprint.

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[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 4 months ago

Hey capitalism, how's it going?

[-] mjsaber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 4 months ago
[-] Five 41 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

What, does it only target LearJet and Gulfstream private aircraft?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'd be okay with that. How do we implement that?

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[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 14 points 4 months ago

To be fair, people and airplanes are very bad for the environment.

I wouldn't be surprised if a tactical nuke was a net positive for the environment.

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 months ago

A nuke destroys whole ecosystems...

[-] hex_m_hell 13 points 4 months ago

Chernobyl is doing pretty well now that it's completely uninhabitable by humans...

[-] RisingSwell@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Plenty of things will survive it, and the removal of the humans in the area may be a net positive.

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

So do we... at least the nuke stops killing new things after a bit.

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[-] Flimbo@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[-] InevitableWaffles@midwest.social 12 points 4 months ago

ಠ_ಠ wtf did I just read?

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

I do believe it says the sea sparrow is the most environmentally friendly anti-air missile.

[-] InevitableWaffles@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago

Ah! Thanks.

[-] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I hate that this isn't a meme.

Ed: lolol 300+ mindless upvotes and the poster is the sub mod. Awesome.

Why do communities exist if people are going to dump everything in one place and are rewarded for doing so?

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's a meme insofar as the definition of

an element of a culture or system of behavior passed from one individual to another by imitation or other nongenetic means.

Information is one of the elements. This is information and it is being passed around by non genetic means.

[-] walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 9 points 4 months ago

I bet it generates a lot of carbon when used though :(

[-] Raxiel@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

But think of the jet emissions reduction it leads to!

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 4 months ago

If you're going to be unfriendly to people, the least you can do is be friendly to the ecosystem.

[-] noctisatrae@beehaw.org 5 points 4 months ago

Is this real?

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

`Frank, the new CEO had to answer to the board.

The board was getting anxious, and the shareholders were

on a bed, legs in air, ass-cheeks open wide

They were about to get fucked like it was their first time.

When one makes 20 million, ten thousand people lose.

What keeps that one from swallowing a shotgun?

Dan, the company man, felt loyalty to the corp.

After 16 years of service, and a family to support

He actually started to believe

the weaponry and chemicals were for national defense.

'Cause Danny had a mortgage, and a boss to answer to.

The guilty don't feel guilty, they learn not to.

Helen is living in her car, trying to feed her kids.

She got laid off at work, and her house was repossessed.

It's hard to think clearly when it's 38 degrees.

Desperate people have been known to render desperate deeds.

But when she shot that family and moved into their home,

The paper read she suffered from dementia.`

---NOFX - The Irrationality of Rationality

[-] HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

When I read the first line i was like oh shit it’s NoFx fuck yea

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Well weapons are going to be made and used anyway, it's better if they're environmentally friendlier I suppose

[-] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

I'm calling bullshit. The Internet Archive snapshot for the RaytheonTech Twitter page on 2021-09-07 does not show this tweet between tweets dated 2023-08-19 and 2023-09-01.

[-] HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Not real and is doctored

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Maybe they are going to start shooting down billionaires' jets?

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