But Google’s guidance was also telling us that recovery was possible if we just “removed” our “unhelpful” on-page content:

This is very chilling because it means websites will delete content. If the internet archive didn't grab it in time it means knowledge is gone forever. An algorithm is not going to always be accurate in determining what is helpful.

The Internet Used to be a Place

There are still active webrings:

sadgrl.online webring directory
digilord.neocities.org/webring
webringworld.org
brisray webring list

JFC if there a uBlock list I can add to block most AI crap or do I have to get a new addon for that?

Yes but also stop using Google

We need other ways to discover shit on the internet.

I don't know, maybe bring back the fucking webrings or something.

As one Google executive recently explained: “Organizing information is clearly a trillion-dollar opportunity, but a trillion dollars is not cool anymore. What’s cool is a quadrillion dollars.”

Any exec saying remarks like this should be old yellered.

I'm saying this being fully aware of what I just said, and I say it because of what it implies.

It requires massive poverty, massive control, massive casualties, people dying from whatever comes with that level of poverty, just so that a few assholes can brag about a quadrillion dollars.

Fuck

That

Shit

We need to start hard capping maximum sizes in companies. No company can employ more than 1000 people. No company can have a net worth of over one billion dollar. When a company goes over the met worth, handle it with taxes. When it reaches the employee max, that's it, can't hire no more.

We also need to hard cap personal wealth. Both income and net worth must be taxed in brackets. Nobody should be allowed to own more than 10 million (or whatever is a sane max maybe less, maybe a little bit more)

The lowest of the low pay no taxes, they have no money to do so. Then the next starts with 5, 10, etc. middle class should pay around 30 like in most countries. After that it goes up and up until you reach 100% for income, and whatever % is required to put the person's net worth back into that 10 million limit.

With this we don't have a single quadrillion dollar company with a king that will soon enough fail, we'll have thousands of multi million companies, thousands of owners of which some might fail, others won't. Tax income will be so much that we can quite easily fund a giant social support system, free healthcare (physical and mental, eyes and teeth), free education, universal income to ensure everyone can live nicely

NOBODY has the right to be a billionaire, it is not a right, it is not a privilege, it should be forbidden and the very fact that it's not is a cancer on humanity.

This "quadrillion" asshole is a clear and present danger to humanity, it's the seed of a cancer that will destroy us all.

Yes but also stop using Google

As one Google executive recently explained: “Organizing information is clearly a trillion-dollar opportunity, but a trillion dollars is not cool anymore. What’s cool is a quadrillion dollars.”

Any exec saying remarks like this should be old yellered.

I'm saying this being fully aware of what I just said, and I say it because of what it implies.

It requires massive poverty, massive control, massive casualties, people dying from whatever comes with that level of poverty, just so that a few assholes can brag about a quadrillion dollars.

Fuck

That

Shit

We need to start hard capping maximum sizes in companies. No company can employ more than 1000 people. No company can have a net worth of over one billion dollar. When a company goes over the met worth, handle it with taxes. When it reaches the employee max, that's it, can't hire no more.

We also need to hard cap personal wealth. Both income and net worth must be taxed in brackets. Nobody should be allowed to own more than 10 million (or whatever is a sane max maybe less, maybe a little bit more)

The lowest of the low pay no taxes, they have no money to do so. Then the next starts with 5, 10, etc. middle class should pay around 30 like in most countries. After that it goes up and up until you reach 100% for income, and whatever % is required to put the person's net worth back into that 10 million limit.

With this we don't have a single quadrillion dollar company with a king that will soon enough fail, we'll have thousands of multi million companies, thousands of owners of which some might fail, others won't. Tax income will be so much that we can quite easily fund a giant social support system, free healthcare (physical and mental, eyes and teeth), free education, universal income to ensure everyone can live nicely

NOBODY has the right to be a billionaire, it is not a right, it is not a privilege, it should be forbidden and the very fact that it's not is a cancer on humanity.

This "quadrillion" asshole is a clear and present danger to humanity, it's the seed of a cancer that will destroy us all.

We need other ways to discover shit on the internet.

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As one Google executive recently explained: “Organizing information is clearly a trillion-dollar opportunity, but a trillion dollars is not cool anymore. What’s cool is a quadrillion dollars.”

Any exec saying remarks like this should be old yellered.

I’m saying this being fully aware of what I just said, and I say it because of what it implies.

It requires massive poverty, massive control, massive casualties, people dying from whatever comes with that level of poverty, just so that a few assholes can brag about a quadrillion dollars.

No, it don't for the simple reason that for them to be in the quadrillion dollars someone should be able to buy/use/rent whatever they do.
And they know this even if they don't say it.

We need to start hard capping maximum sizes in companies. No company can employ more than 1000 people. No company can have a net worth of over one billion dollar. When a company goes over the met worth, handle it with taxes. When it reaches the employee max, that’s it, can’t hire no more.

We also need to hard cap personal wealth. Both income and net worth must be taxed in brackets. Nobody should be allowed to own more than 10 million (or whatever is a sane max maybe less, maybe a little bit more)

The lowest of the low pay no taxes, they have no money to do so. Then the next starts with 5, 10, etc. middle class should pay around 30 like in most countries. After that it goes up and up until you reach 100% for income, and whatever % is required to put the person’s net worth back into that 10 million limit.

Instead of these stupid ideas, what about closing all the loopholes that allow these companies to not pay taxes ? It seem simpler and more effective.

BTW, all your ideas would work only in a socialist country where the state control what the people do. When you say

When it reaches the employee max, that’s it, can’t hire no more.

what about a guy that want to do that job but then can't ? He start a new company (but is he able to do so ?) Or the state plan what everyone must do ?

You are simply trading, by hate and ideology, the freedom of few to be billionaire with the freedom of everyone else to do what they want in their life.

True, the current system has a lot of problems, but you don't solve them simply not allowing a company to become too big hoping that this will lead to a multitude of smaller companies.

With this we don’t have a single quadrillion dollar company with a king that will soon enough fail, we’ll have thousands of multi million companies, thousands of owners of which some might fail, others won’t. Tax income will be so much that we can quite easily fund a giant social support system, free healthcare (physical and mental, eyes and teeth), free education, universal income to ensure everyone can live nicely

Nope, you hope so but you have no evidence that it would happen, not even theoretical. And such solution would work only if it is applied world wide, if you apply only to US (or any other country or area like EU) your companies would be crushed from the bigger ones that your laws cannot touch.

Or are you proposing isolationism as the default for every nation in the world ? Are you sure it is a better option ?

NOBODY has the right to be a billionaire, it is not a right, it is not a privilege, it should be forbidden and the very fact that it’s not is a cancer on humanity.

But everybody has the right to try to be one as long as he follow the rules.

So the problem, maybe, is that we should start to ask for laws that force these big companies to follow the rules everyone else play by instead of asking to destroy companies that became that big because the laws are bad.

This is why I shut The Den of Amateur Writing down after 25 years of running and developing it. I had written the entire codebase for Googles SEO, rolled out the update so my users would see a bit more traffic trickle in, and then watched them delist all my URLs 3 months later when this change rolled out. I just gave up. It was taking way too much of my life fighting googles bullshit to provide a free community.

I'd not heard of your site before, but it sounds like it was a cool thing while it lasted. That seems to be the trend of the day. The cool things are giving way to very dumb things.

Webrings were so good, I would spend hours clicking through them

You are simply trading, by hate and ideology, the freedom of few to be billionaire with the freedom of everyone else to do what they want in their life.

Da ruski, good job pointing out the actual issue and then moving past it like it doesn't destroy your argument. To your billionaire owners: we will thresh them just like the tsar and his family. The freedom from oppression exceeds anyone's freedom to amass wealth. They will pay for their success either by death or taxes and I really dont care which one

None of your proposals would work for long, they only touch symptons of the real problem. We should be dismantling capitalism. It's the system itselft that allows the massive unequality we see around us, and it's by design.

Bullshit

Capitalism at its core that you allow free trading. And. It. Has. Been. Successful. Capitalism is what killed the USSR by sheer force.

The problem arises when it's not controlled at all. Apply those rules well and you get a powerhouse generating huge progress for everyone and the taxes and all will be able to pay for the social security network on top of that ensuring nobody gets left behind

You can go to communism Island if you want and suffer under economic mismanagent, bit I'd rather have capitalism, thank you