Even the political views I used to associate with “the good people” - now I see their proponents as maniputive, self-serving, bullies.

That’s because the mouthpieces for these things are all being taken by politicians,YouTubers, and tiktok people who are primarily there to grift and attention whore. You can still support the people who need help without consuming these people’s content. Just focus on what you can do locally and work your way out from there.

Yeah, and then talentless hacks kept fucking with it for almost 40 years just for the sake of fucking with it. Enshittification marches on.

Get off social media and avoid the negative people in your life as much as you can for a bit. Read some books. Play a chill video game. Make something. Just get away from it for a while so you can re-center yourself.

Things are bad and we should be worried about them but there’s only so much any of us can do about it. If you don’t take care of yourself and your mental health you’re not going to be able to do good for anyone else when the time comes.

community college is pretty where some doctorate ends up if they cant find research jobs at a university or in private sector

Not a great plan when you have 100s of thousands in student loans to pay off.

You think Facebook smart glasses aren’t sending the video anywhere? Their entire business model is harvesting data on people.

Please put your phone down and go outside for a while and look at some trees or something. You are taking this way to seriously.

When the infrastructure is only unsafe because the driver is a fucking moron it is.

So can all his coworkers sue them because they have to look at this bigoted piece of shit every day?

US cities are doing it too, but I just avoid urban areas as much as possible regardless.

Yeah it is for sure not marketable or particularly useful at all as far as I can tell. I tried having conversations with her about her field and she never once explained anything to me that wasn’t common sense stuff.

Snapping a photo or video of your family or a landmark for your personal memories that happens to have some other people in the background is a hell of a lot different than sending a constant stream of everyone you’re looking at along with location data to Facebook, Google, the government, and whoever the fuck else. I shouldn’t have to explain this to you. And yes if you’re going to be uploading someones image online I do think you should have their permission.

There’s ways of achieving this without the privacy invasion.

There’s ways of doing per-recorded settings without putting a spy camera in your vehicle.

My friends ex has a doctorate in like speech communication or something like that and we were all at a wedding a few months ago and I overheard her bitching about how his mom had sent her a birthday card at some point and she was pissed because the card wasn’t addressed to “DR. xxxx”. Literally the only job she could find with that degree was teaching it at a community college. Calm down.

I once had a guy claim he was one of the guys that invented the internet. I googled his name afterwards and it didn’t turn up anything and he was incapable of performing the basic tasks required to reset his password to our website so I’m pretty confident he was full of shit.

I’m the only one that drives my car. I don’t need spyware to adjust the seat for me.

Because the people making these laws aren’t handled appropriately.

Something being legal doesn’t make it morally correct and the rest of us should oppose this shit in every way we can, not simply expect it.

There’s degrees of privacy. People don’t deserve to be recorded 24/7 just because they happen to be outside.

Most of the women I’ve actually talked to about it are either asexual or have practically no sex drive so take this with a grain of salt, but I think it mostly comes down to men being more “visual” and a lot of this new technology facilitates that. The women I’ve talked to all prefer porny literature which the only technology I can think of that helps with that would be LLMs.

As for why men can’t resist being creepy with it, I think the majority can. Those who can’t have shitty impulse control and being horny overrides their better sense. Not that that’s an excuse.