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  1. Not wrong, but Diamond's point here is more "Showing up and claiming land and killing all the previous inhabitants is not a uniquely European ethos." Also the Maori are some bad ass motherfuckers, and not a group of people I would cross lightly. As a culinary aside, I always find it funny when folks talk about bringing US/Spicy flavor food to Europeans. While I totally agree their spice levels are ridiculous weak, you can not feed spiced food to Europeans. They will more or less literally throw it up. Culturally they don't grow up eating spicy food, and it's something that has to be slowly introduced over time. You can't just decide to eat actual Thai spicey food. I mean you CAN. But I wouldn't recommend it.
  2. I’m pretty sure Guns, Germs, and Steel has an entire chapter about Polynesians, and the Māori in particular, engaging in genocidal conquest. It’s part of his hypothesis that conquest isn’t genetic, it’s a product of resource allocations and culture.
  3. Got along with each other? Man, you might want to touch up on your pre European Māori history. They could get their fucking war on. If you were drafting an army from scratch, they are potential #1 picks.
  4. That fucking thing is gonna make the Zumwalt look like the USS Constitution.
  5. Just dropping a pin. I want to circle back and join this conversation tomorrow.
  6. This is my obligatory complaint about bad time management with a lead: when Oregon was throwing the ball early in the third instead of just running the ball and snapping the ball on a running game clock with 20+ seconds left on the play clock, this game would be over right now.
  7. They’ve been on the field for 35 minutes already.
  8. If you don’t watch Oregon regularly, Lanning is occasionally guilty of being stupid in the service of out thinking himself. That third quarter was very classic, too smart to do the smart thing.
  9. This last 10 minutes out of Oregon is total fuckery. Instead of leaning on his running game and shortening the game, Lanning decided to dazzle dazzle and ended leaving tons of time on the clock.
  10. There should be about 9 minutes left in the 4th right now. Let’s see how many times on this drive Oregon snaps the ball with 15-20 seconds left on a running game clock.
  11. Maybe Lanning will just run some clock now that Dante Moore just put that shit ass play on his nfl film.
  12. JFC, Lanning. Huddle up, run the ball and let’s get this thing over with.
  13. Goddamnit Lanning. What are you, Shane fucking Beamer? Just play an off coverage two deep and make JMU run clock for you.
  14. This isn’t going to be funny for Oregon if JMU frustration cheap shots Sadiq or Moore and injured them.
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