I don’t works in the industry myself but have some insight. ‘Performed as designed’ is a key phrase. The customer, typically the US government, presents a use case and a solution is designed to meet their specs.

It’s oddly mundane and a lot of well engineered shit never gets used.

Why make war though?

I’m ready to sacrifice myself for the nation.

Living in an area where a lot of these company's exist and develop this shit, many of them are proud of the way they perform.

TIL I'm Russian.

You carry them upside down because flowers are heavy and catch wind. If you let them dangle, they'll sway instead of snap.

While this is funny, the entire honeypot issue can be avoided if the state sanctioned 1 girlfriend for every guy.

Not so sure about that

Because if my preferred side doesn't, worse people will. (Although for all we know OP is Chinese or Russian)

If that sounds like a slippery slope, sure, it definitely could be. It doesn't really seem like Canada is sliding into evil empire any time soon, though. And, when it does get to that point, they usually de-emphasise the idea of just war in favour of some version "patriotism", anyway.

No trust me bro, the government deciding on romantic partners and matches is totally not something ripped straight from a mid-tier dystopian novel.

"I work on vendor lock-in, Congressional district contractor allocation, and remote killswitches"

You think wet men aren't tempted by strange?

Actually ripped from the German playbook circa 1940.

The SS were given a state sanctioned wife for the purpose of producing as many “Aryan” children as possible.

Plus, a good chunk of men would cheat with a young, attractive woman paying them attention.

Cold blooded.

Collateral damage