The U.S. Army's Plans to Use 100k Microsoft HoloLens Headsets in Battle (fastcompany.com)

I think it’s misdirected anger. The reason we enjoy the strong, stable economy that allowed Google and Microsoft is flourish is our strong military that prefers to play “away games”.

I often half-joke that the aircraft carrier did more for democracy than a Gandhi and Mandela combined.

There was a lot of noise and concern from the people building hololens. I am not sure what the state is now: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/22/18236116/microsoft-holole...

I proudly endorse my company's military contracts! (For several different militaries, too.)

The us military is a tool for economic imperialism, if they existed to protect individual freedom they might try and stop the Yemeni genocide or generally maybe not help overthrow democratically elected governments.

I'm not opposed to helping them, but I worry that they're helped disproportionately. In my opinion, kinetic warfare is not our weak spot - I feel like we've got that covered pretty well; information warfare is a complete blind spot from a defense standpoint. I'd like to see more money headed to defense on that front instead. Re >> "you need to take that up directly with the people that take your money and give it to them" - I do when I can.

> not as much the people that they give money to.

The soldiers get basically no money. They risk their lives carrying around missiles that cost 5x their salary.

You’re saying we shouldn’t take it up with the tech companies and military tech vendors, which people here might actually have influence with.