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Would the DoD, or Lockheed-Martin, equivalent Russian ministries and M-I companies, etc., be able to operate efficiently (if operate properly at all) if everyone in F/OSS refused to give any support to them in their IT operations?

They probably could still operate, but they would also probably suffer from not-entirely-trivial inefficiencies which they do not have today.

There's no point getting into weeds on arguments about whether there is a genocide ongoing at moment.

There very obviously is to everyone in the world, bar a very small set of people. The ICJ - the authoritative body - already ruled, quite a while ago, that the threshold for action (i.e., by it on proceeding with the case, and also on states for acting to prevent genocide) on the /possibility/ for genocide had been reached. It is also a fact that the acts which obviously are genocide to all in the world, bar a small set, could not have occurred without the support of the USA - both political, operationally, and materially in terms of _very large_ quantities of bombs (more tonnage of HE than that dropped on a number of major cities in Europe in all of WWII combined), and it is a fact the USA provided that support while in possession of the same knowledge the rest of the world has (and more, given the vast SIGINT and IMINT resources it has). Those are just facts.

> This standard is not"very difficult to escape"; it is for all intents pretty much impossible.

Agreed.

Ah, sorry, just realized that my dripping sarcasm may not have come across properly in text.
Paul, not really directing that at you; just elucidating in general. I also feel like I share some responsibility; like pizza, my contributions to ROS may have harmed, helped, and forced progress. But the question is, how much of that lays on my shoulders? Do my contributions to SLAM *actually* make me culpable for 'new things' heading out to the battlefield?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1QRqu3Cocw

"How Do Military Drones Fly Without GPS? | Ian Laffey, Thesus"

It's very clear to me that what I developed ten years ago is "being independently rediscovered" at a very rapid rate. This "kid" (and I use the term loosely, due to his youth, and verbal tic of 'Like', every three words as the cogs are turning in the background and he needs a moment for text to speech to finish exporting the current symbols before the next queued can be delivered) has pushed forward optical techniques that are older than I am, and mixed them up with modern tools. Those tools are intended for the battlefield, and it's clear he lacks the kind of life experience to apply a moral compass to the results. He likely knows they're going to harm people but has no context in his life to understand what that actually means.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4mc5mHksl8

This sort of scene is absolutely unheard of in american life, and nowhere in childhood or matriculation would he have encountered it.

"You see brief clips of it on the news." Except when you don't because even the news censors things to "buildings falling" and property damage. I can't recall the last time I've seen a *real pool of blood* -- it's something that's "only in fiction".

So yeah.

I don't deny that we can be very disassociated with life today.

Projectile Weapons are no longer seen as hunting tools for food gathering, because the general public now shops at walmart.

People have grown complacent, expecting the results of a process without bothering to look into the meat packing industry themselves.
What they might find there may be surprising. "The children yearn for the mines" is a pertinent meme to review in this case.