And did those rough men design and build their own weapons?

Medical companies refuse to export drugs to the United States that they know are used in executions. But nobody will stop selling arms to someone else unless and until international law gets involved, and sometimes not even then.

It seems pretty clear that those in the field of medicine have a higher moral standard.

"State electrician" isn't just a euphemism.

A medical doctor who participates in a state-sanctioned execution will still find himself in professional jeopardy at home and typically wouldn't be allowed to practice abroad. The same is not true of engineers involved in the design of devices used in state-sanctioned executions.

Everybody knows it's Bern!

I worked with machine language in elementary school!

(We used discarded punchcards in arts and crafts.

Professional sports isn't exactly known for myriad career opportunities either.

The password is actually 8 Unicode capital omicrons.

And they're the ones signing the paychecks, so any difference between what they think and reality is irrelevant.

Apple is listed in Android benchmark rankings?

Then you'll have no problem finding a shareholder vote on executive pay that was binding.

conscripts...

Nutrition in an industrialized military is not something handled so haphazardly. Every meal has the potential to be the last for an unknown duration, so every meal is kept within narrow tolerances for nutrient content.

Plankton.

The carbon footprint debate becomes a lot more fuzzy when the local clime isn't conducive to producing human-edible plant proteins and the only meaningful carbon expenditure for local animal flesh is the from the fishing fleet.

Off the top of my head I can't think of a whole lot of options for locally-produced protein in Norway. If you eliminate the animal proteins, what's left? How much carbon is Norway saving if they have to ship more nuts and beans in from overseas, particularly if the alternative is wild-caught fish?