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Megaman_EXE

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Megaman_EXE ,

I wish the internet archive didn't pick that battle with these companies. I don't have faith that they will win when the government sides with corporations so frequently. I hope they have a way to dump everything to the public to be backed up. I fear if they were taken down we would lose all that important information

German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists' (www.hrw.org)

- Volkswagen (VW) in 2023 commissioned a deeply flawed audit at a plant in China's Xinjiang province operated by a subsidiary of Volkswagen’s joint venture with SAIC, a Chinese state-owned carmaker....

Megaman_EXE ,

This will happen in every industry. There's no ethical consumption under our current system because there's no way to track where resources, materials, items come from, who made them, and how their workers are being treated.

Edit: I just remembered the story from the last year Or two where they found all those kids working in meat plants in the USA. Slavery and other unethical practices happen globally. I wish there was better ways to stop it. I'm glad people are talking about it and hopefully it leads to better outcomes in the future

Megaman_EXE ,

Stuff like this has kind of made me partially give up and settle in a sub-par job. There's always job listings like this. Of course, I still apply, but man, after getting ghosted more times than I can count over the years, I don't look at listing regularly anymore. I find it just makes me depressed.

Car makers BMW, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Volkswagen (VW) used parts made by supplier with links to Chinese forced labour, U.S. probe says (www.bbc.com)

BMW, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Volkswagen (VW) used parts made by a supplier on a list of firms banned over alleged links to Chinese forced labour, a US congressional report has said....

Megaman_EXE ,

There's no ethical consumption under our current system. Someone down the line is getting screwed. Some worse than others. We likely own, consume, and work with many things that have been created by slave labor. I'm not sure what the solution would be, though. It's likely quite complicated.

Megaman_EXE ,

I miss windows 7

Megaman_EXE ,

At this point, I think the genie is out of the bottle. I feel like unless you're on some p2p encrypted chat, anything typed into the internet is getting scraped. I'm sure everyone at this point has had at least one comment scraped and used for language model stuff.

I don't like it. But it seems like corporations will always find ways to make money off of other people no matter what

Megaman_EXE ,

This looks...well amazing but also horrifying.
When they showed of GPT assisting with math equations, it made me think of how much better I would be at math if I had an assistant like that growing up.

It also makes me think about how there are going to be so many scams and fraud in the future. It's already starting, and it's only going to get worse. I'm sure I'll be duped by something like this in the future.

Also, people are going to totally be marrying gpt bots in the future lol.

Megaman_EXE ,

High five. Completely agree lol. I can honestly think of thirty years or more of other activities, hobbies and opportunities that I would actively rather pursue over a paycheck.

Megaman_EXE ,

I'm terrified that one day, I'll be forced back into the office. I think I've gotten extremely lucky so far. I know 100% I would not have made it through the past couple years if I was in the office. We have personal offices, which is a step up from cubicles, but it's 4 white walls and no natural sunlight. In the winter I saw sunlight for maybe 10 minutes total a day if I was lucky.

I just don't think people are meant to be working the way our current societies do. Conditions should be improved across the board for every industry regardless if you are doing white collar or blue collar work. Our lives are too short to be wasted making other people rich.

Megaman_EXE ,

Thank you

Megaman_EXE ,

So far, there have been two interesting uses I've seen for chat gpt.

One is I've used it to help me write regular expressions in the very rare time I need to for my job.

The other is kind of cool but also kind of troubling in a way. But I've come across a couple of therapy style chat bots that are essentially just reading off a list of "here's what to do for XYZ"

I've tested them a bit, and I've found I'm 1) concerned who gets access to the information shared. 2) If/when these kinds of bots will be used to manipulate people in a negative way. 3)The possibility of a bot replying in a bad way that could make an issue worse for someone

Overall, I like the idea of them. I find it's hard to process information if it's coming directly from myself, or accept compassion from myself. So funny enough, these chat bots actually work really well in that respect.

In some cases, I've had better discussions than I have had with actual therapists, which is funny but also sad.

So while there's some troubling possibilities, I think there's a lot of positives that I've seen from my time with it.

Megaman_EXE ,

I'm really emotionally and mentally exhausted. But what you just wrote makes me think you are my spirit animal. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's nice to see that other people are identifying a major issue and care about it.

Megaman_EXE ,

I was just thinking about this the other day. I came across a live stream on YouTube showing a city street. You couldn't identify anyone, but it made me think how none of those people probably realized they were being watched.

It's troublesome that people don't know who could be using face scanning technology, where it's being used, and what purposes they could be using it for.

Megaman_EXE ,

I'm so tired man. I just want it to stop. It feels like everything nice is slowly being squeezed in all aspects of life.

Anything that capitalism touches or influences has begun to choke us out. It just seems to continue and doesn't seem to ease up or improve. Maybe I'm just noticing it more, but the past 4 years felt like things accelerated quickly

Megaman_EXE ,

It's funny but sad. Every time I see news of the minimum wage increasing somewhere, it always feels like it's 5 years too late.

It's always better than nothing, but not quite enough

Megaman_EXE ,

This is weird. I think my local transit needs some kind of police protection on actual transit and at the stations...but I don't think I would feel safer if they had rifles. Our issue is thieves mugging people, and people on drugs going out of their minds. There have been a couple stabbings and one lady was pushed onto the train tracks. There have been assaults on the train, and our city busses too.

We have security at some of the stations, but they only call the police. They don't get involved. The crime is already committed and done before police arrive.
So on one hand, I feel like some places could use added security on their public transport. But on the other hand I don't think this is exactly the way to go about it either.

I would rather see solutions to the root of the problems (wealth disparity being a major one) rather than trying to play a game of whack a mole

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    Megaman_EXE ,

    This hurts to see. Enshittification sucks...

    Megaman_EXE ,

    Those kinds of subs were the best. I liked when they weren't too big, but just big enough to have a steady feed of topics. It felt like a tight knit club

    Megaman_EXE ,

    The writing was on the wall. The announcement posts were always sad to see. In the comments you would have people begging for better mod tools or asking various questions only to be completely ignored or brushed off. Or they would get false promises that never actually were acted on. Classic spez

    Megaman_EXE ,

    I only follow specific youtubers and artists. If stray away from my specific feed, Twitter is too scary lol. I am at a loss for good social media though. It seems like most social media sites have just gotten worse over the past decade.

    I guess there's pros an cons to it all. Pro: less time wasted on social media
    Con: I've missed out on some information that is sometimes good to know.

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