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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oregon, barring injury, really has the sweetest cfp set up.
Skip conference championship, warm up laugher at home, next round against a team that hasn’t played a real team all season and leans really hard on Turn overs as their big playing card.
I've driven through New Mexico a few times. My trip to Philmont really stood out, particularily as a Westlake boy. I don't know why my scoutmaster's got off the beaten path, but I guess they had their reasons, so we took an extra day or two working our way up to the ranch.
My Mom did research on the drug abuse community most of her life. I often helped her in volunteer efforts in centex and thought I knew something about hard times and poverty. I didn't know shit. New Mexico is just built completely different.
Just the viliest human. What a piece of shit.
They just detained Reiner's son. This is an absolutle worst case scenerio dealing with a family member with addiction problems. Something that human shit stain Trump actually knows about.
1. This falls under the “Is it that fucking hard to just rub one out?” You are willing to lose it all over something that could have been resolved with some lotion in a hot shower.
2. Michigan has been walking around like high clergy as a public Ivy who can have it all. lol. They ain’t no better than LSU or ARKY.
In theory, it shouldn't fuck anything up if they just put up a rando arc in the middle of the traffic circle. People will just drive around it as they do now.
But knowing that asshole, he'll pave over part of the Arlington National Cemetary and put in a traffic lights and a special moving walkway so people can go see it.
I stood next to him at DCA a couple of months ago. He's old as fuck.
The Arc D' Trump he wants to do is in a traffic circle just across the Potomac from the Lincoln Memorial at the end of the Memorial Bridge.
In all fairness, the Obama Administration briefly considered an Arc over Independence Avenue for Eisenhower, instead of the hideous Frank Geary design they settled on, but it was tasteful and appropriate. I'm sure Trump is going to build some giant fucking eyesore, which btw, is one of the entrances to Arlington National Cemetary.