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1. doctob+23[view] [source] 2026-02-05 05:33:23
>>WaitWa+(OP)
Hopefully this is a wakeup call to the software engineers and other employees at those companies - it's no longer a hypothetical future where the tools you are building might be abused, it's today.
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2. testfr+8e[view] [source] 2026-02-05 07:23:10
>>doctob+23
If you’re not awake already, you support what’s happening.

Blind, which I realize is a bit of the wild west, is full of racist anti-immigration/pro ICE hatred. Obviously, you can see where users work/worked, and it’s every company you could imagine.

The sad reality is that a lot of people will do what they can to support racist agendas, possibly even motivate them to work at certain companies as it feels moralizing to their hateful beliefs.

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3. Diti+4g[view] [source] 2026-02-05 07:42:17
>>testfr+8e
With the sorry state the software industry is currently in, I’m not surprised that developers would sell their soul in exchange for the peace of mind of being able to pay rent and food. Working for those companies does not make people “do what they can to support racist agendas”.
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4. testfr+vg[view] [source] 2026-02-05 07:47:04
>>Diti+4g
Is this your way of sharing that you work at X or are open to hurting people in exchange for cash?

Also, you can retain your morals and choose a career, it is optional to select where you work as it’s hopefully voluntary.

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5. surgic+zh[view] [source] 2026-02-05 07:56:26
>>testfr+vg
There's nothing voluntary when your options are homelessness and starvation. The bank won't accept your morals in lieu of money when accepting mortgage repayments.

Thankfully I don't live in the US and I don't work for anything even remotely related to this. I don't know if I would have the fortitude in the current US job market (based on what I read here) to threat the well being of the wife and daughter by taking principled stances.

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6. RGamma+sj[view] [source] 2026-02-05 08:14:52
>>surgic+zh
Dilapidating the world for an easy buck is gonna bite you and/or your kids eventually. We have reached technological sophistication where certain kinds of mistakes are not allowed if civilization as we know it is to survive.
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7. surgic+qm[view] [source] 2026-02-05 08:38:46
>>RGamma+sj
When the bank reposseses the house because you are not paying the mortgage, this will bite you and your kids too.

You can call it an "easy buck", and it is just coping. An easy way to make some poor schlemiel creating a miserable report with user location data during his sprint into a greedy bastard that is just enriching his bank account out of the suffering of plenty.

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8. RGamma+Gp[view] [source] 2026-02-05 09:01:32
>>surgic+qm
Atomization enables this. Any number of individuals are individually weak against their employer/some org, but a big group of them can be quite powerful.

If many were to sacrifice their morals out of financial pressure easily (the control over which is in increasingly few hands) the path the US is treading becomes pretty deterministic... We've seen it in the movies and read it in the books.

You guys seem to need collective action and civil disobedience.

Then again.. maybe the will for collective action comes only after the repossessions...

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9. surgic+Et[view] [source] 2026-02-05 09:33:46
>>RGamma+Gp
> You guys

One of the reasons I chose to move to Europe is because I value the mininal safety nets and labor protections on this side of the pond. Yes, I make less money and pay more taxes but I believe this is how society should work, I reject the hyper individualism that ignores any sort of collective.

But I am also not naive. Expecting individuals to take the burden for decisions way beyond their control is silly. It takes immense fortitude to threaten the well being of those dear to you based on principle, when the only outcome is your own suffering (the company will likely find another employee right away anyway).

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