Your applicable skills could be applied elsewhere, be it at private companies or in other public sectors. You could also - wild thought - work alongside your co-workers to prevent those who are trying to harm the citizens you were appointed to protect from attacking us, such as ICE impersonators.
TL;DR, please find another job if you don’t like the labels and stigma, or put some effort into changing the perspectives of the citizenry.
Iraqi Military became Iraqi insurgents/rebel forces (During US Occupation). Especially with all of their weaponry and training practically falling into the laps of the US’s opposition during the war.
Didn’t the US federal government learn in Iraq the consequences of stiffing paychecks to existing service members… ?
Guess not.
This is California, the state with the strictest gun laws in the country on the books. You’re asking civilians with compliant arms to go up against literal military surplus equipment (provided through the 1033 program)?
Also, nice bot username. Let’s see if you reply to any of the comments.
Yeah, Gabe Newell definitely was quite forward thinking when he came to that conclusion, and I can definitely say it works well for my Steam Library.
Honestly at this point the main force that brings me to hunt for media is subscription services, since it always feels like a rug pull compared to alternatives. I paid for things on GOG, I get to keep the installers and back them up. I bought things on Steam, I’m not charged to reinstall or use them on other devices, and I can still download games that are delisted now (RIP poker night at the inventory).
Now that Blu-rays are going the way of Google Stadia, getting phased out, all I can really do is just rip any media I already have and download what I may need. FOSS tools have already replaced any subscription software I would use for my engineering work.
If memory serves, Anna’s links to them if you check their “3rd party sources” links when doing an ISBN search.
The answer is always DRM and monetization. If you didn’t have enough reasons to not buy products with locked down software, here’s even more reasons.