There's a lot to unpack in your 3 lines of text, but most of it is wrong, you should read some history books. Human sacrifice wasn't practiced in the roman empire. Indeed at the time of the Trojan War it was already old memory and found abhorrent. As for gladiator, it was similar to american wrestling: trained pro athletes putting on a show. Accidents did happen, but killing each other wasn't part of the show. Now prisoners condemned to death sometimes yes, but remind me how many people the US executed last year ?

I work in IT supporting about 300 scientists with Win+Linux+Mac, about 33% each, but with Win11 we decided to change policy: deny requests for Windows unless really necessary and give that user a Linux PC for a month. After a month, if they *still* want Windows, okay.

Yes. Ukraine had a chance in 2022 because Putin sent a very small force assuming that he could convince Putin to agree to the peace deal where they'd stop killing Ukrainians in Donbass. And it would have worked if NATO hadn't offered to send all the money and weapons Ukraine wanted to keep the war going.

Ukraine then pushed the Russians back because the Ukrainian military outnumbered the Russian forces and suddenly they had Starlink for communications, US intelligence data to tell when where the Russians were, and all the weapons they could eat. But once they failed to push the Russians out of Ukraine it was just a matter of time for Putin to build up the available forces and ramp up weapons production. There was no way to win after that other than for NATO to send in troops, and no NATO government wants to do that.

Now either NATO will send in troops or Ukraine is going to get a much, much worse deal than they were offered in 2022 and it may not longer even exist as a viable country. Particularly if Putin takes Odessa as well and cuts rump Ukraine off from the Black Sea entirely.

Yes, absolutely right. But the homeschooled US kids I saw had their entire 'social mixup' done in church or at the gun range...

True. When buying a PC if there was an OS option choice [Windows] [Linux] [None] I'm sure Linux would be on par with Windows. Why there hasn't been an anti-trust settlement to enforce this 25 years ago is beyond me.
Disclaimer: 25 years ago, doing technical support to my family (about 10PCs), I got pissed at them for having to clean viruses over and over week after week, so I gave them an ultimatum: I install Linux and provide full support, or you get a Mac and are on your own, or I categorically refuse to approach Windows anymore. 75% took the Linux options, 25 the Mac. And it's been about 10min a week (total) of support via ssh since then. My 60yo parents didn't even notice the change (I put them up with KDE with a Windows look).

In this case, I mean literally... literally. You can find citations trivially. Everyone should know this by now. If you want to talk about Nazis, you should know something about Nazis.

"Remember, Na-Zi means National SOCIALIST, and that's that fascism is."

Remember, the Nazis literally called themselves socialists to fool stupid people, and you also don't know what either socialism or fascism is if you think one is a type of the other.

He wasn't a Nazi but George Washington did a genocide and was named "Town Killer" for it. And before someone points out that was his father, no, his father (who was also named George) ALSO did a genocide and was called the same thing for the same reason.

It really shouldn't be a political stance. Psychologists (and common sense) show that children *need* contact with other children. Otherwise they grow up into little cultists of various ilks. I grew up where homeschooling is next to non-existent and when I moved to the US I saw how close minded it turned many adults into.

Yes, Google is profitable now. Tremendously so. But they're at risk of losing revenue and ceasing to be profitable as people cease using Google search and switch to asking questions of their AIs. So to retain their position as the place people go first for information, they have to stay ahead of the AI race. Well, they could also just sit back and wait to see if their competitors are overwhelmed by the query volume, but that risks losing traffic and then having to win it back. It's much better to keep it. And Google is better-positioned to win this race than its competitors both because of its existing infrastructure and expertise and because it already has the eyeballs.

In addition, you seem to be assuming that doubling serving capacity means doubling cost. Clearly Google is not planning to increase their annual operating expenses by 1000X. As the summary actually says in the third paragraph, Google is also going to have to improve efficiency to achieve the growth rate, with better models and better hardware. This is what the AI chief is challenging the employees to do; he's not challenging them to write bigger OPEX checks, that's his job.

NT existed when IBM brought out at least two major versions of OS/2 without such features while NT had them, so... No.

This. Homeschooling should be illegal. Except in rare cases of severe handicap. Or as an option for *additional* credits if not available in the public school where the kid is going. But as you say it's used for control and to keep kids from meeting different viewpoints. Do you think there would be so many young nazi and evangelists if everyone was going to public school ?!?

And BTW I also strongly think that private schools should not exist. Finland closed them all and they are now... #1 in education worldwide. If the rich have to send their kids with the plebe, they make sure it's at least well funded.

> And that means you vote for politicians who'll do it. If you're American that means a Democrat.

You mean, like the Microsoft anti-trust case which was filed in 2001 when both President and House were Republicans and the Senate was 50:50?

Has there been any anti-trust case against big business since then? Maybe the Democrats did something but I can't remember anything like that offhand.

At this point, expecting elections to do anything just makes you look incredibly naive. It's clear that the only thing the vast majority of populations care about is grift.

> The thing is, there's money to be made in AI, LOTS of money

Sure, just about everyone is losing money pushing "AI", but they'll make it up on volume.

I know a few. I don't know what it may or may not mean. It may be relevant that the ones I know used a community-based approach, where groups of homeschooling families worked together to create something akin to a school, with different parents teaching different subjects. This meant that while the kids socialization groups were small, they did hang out with and learn with other kids, not just their siblings.