indeed

Back in the day it was the best at what it did, but there's less demand these days for that kind of old fashioned search.

Its still better than the competition at finding the URL of a corporate or government entity. Its still helpful for searching other websites for particular content - for example, the wikis for some games have an obtuse layout and unhelpful search function, and google can be the best way to find a particular page in that wiki.

Before ChatGPT existed, and before the enshitifaction of Reddit reached the critical level its at today, google searching site:reddit.com was pretty good at finding organic human conversations that provide actual answers to your questions.

Today however, ChatGPT is better at providing useful answers to whatever questions you may have. And Bing is better at image search.

I'm not sure who "they" is in your comment?

My understanding is that socialists, anarchists, and others that might be considered "the left", tend to love democracy. They love it so much they want to see it spread from government into the workplace. Governments that operate according to democratic republican* principals are not the enemy of the left - they're part of it.

*note the lower case letters - not talking about political parties, but representative democracy as a philosophy

yoink

over charging customers and under paying employees

That's the crux of the issue.

Who's going to buy it for a high price, if there is no demand for office space, because workers are all remote?

Is it though? Seems like there's a lot of support for religious zealots (Iran & proxies) and imperialist authoritarians (Russia). Seems pretty auth-right.

The lack of moderation on lemmy.ml is a problem. For example:

https://lemmy.world/post/20285303

Aren't English just Italians pretty much? We all know how much they like their Cesar.

how dare you suggest its parody

the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, marinara sauce be upon him, is just as legitimate as any other religion

Ukrainian farmer: "How do I put this hunk of junk into Neutral so I can load it onto my trailer?" *starts an argument on War Thunder forums*

You gotta wonder WTF the French were thinking when they decided to force people into the sweltering insomnia of 80 degrees indoors at night just for the sake of creating the appearance that climate change is the fault of the dispossessed proletariat running air conditioners to survive global heating, and pretending like the owners of the means of production aren't actually in a position to change how the economy functions.