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Re:IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data center... by dragonwriter on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @05:15AM (#46132691)
> The US is orders of magnitude stronger than the Roman Empire

This would be trivially true even if the US was currently in its death throes (which there is plenty of evidence that the US-as-empire might be, even if the US-as-polity is not), as the Roman Empire fell quite a while ago.

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Re:IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data center... by zahlman on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @07:44AM (#46133858)
I'm pretty sure

> The US is orders of magnitude stronger than the Roman Empire [was]

was the intended reading.

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Re:IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data center... by ojr on Thursday December 11, 2025 @02:20PM (#46235894)
being pedantic doesn’t change the fact of what I said. If I said Obama is a better a leader than Julius Caesar, would you reply well actually, Julius Caesar is dead.
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