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by zuzululu5 hours ago |
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upvoteby dosisking4 hours ago|
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> And ? Are you upset that Google/Microsoft/Oracle sells their tech to the military?

Yes

> Xbox controller is used on nuclear subs too.

I have never played an Xbox, nor do I have any interest in doing so. There is nothing interesting about the Xbox.

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upvoteby qup3 hours ago|
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You're saying things about yourself, not the Xbox or MS.

There is something interesting about the Xbox, as evidenced by its sales record.

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upvoteby jackb40403 hours ago|
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Xbox is literally imploding right now, they laid off half the company and significantly raised the console price. If sales were good they never would've had to do game pass.

Besides, it's a dumb argument to compare military purchasing non-weapons commodities like controllers or toilet paper to a literal weapons company. It is almost literally impossible to live anywhere in the world without using a platform hosted on AWS or Azure. It is very easy to not buy things from the drone and now retro-console king. They are entirely different asks.

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upvoteby zuzululu2 hours ago|
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but the comforts you enjoy directly came from those very items you listed as unethical.

you could live off the grid in the cabins without internet if you truly believed in being free from the grips of the military industrial complex and the petrodollar you deeply feel guilty about

anything less and you risk sounding like a hypocrite

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upvoteby jackb40402 hours ago|
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Genuinely what am I supposed to do if you can't read? Participating in the global economy is not the same thing as enthusiastically giving money to a company that only makes weapons of war because you love war. If you try to not use AWS in a modernized economy like the US you will probably die on the street and still have unwittingly used AWS anyways.
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