Itās surprising how many people are happy. Itās like do they have the head in the sand. Maybe theyāre drones.
āwhat do you think about NFTs?ā is the new go-to question to weed out first dates.
If they have an opinion about it, you think that you will manage to ever even ask the question? That will probably be among their first topics of conversation 
Thank you for that article!
It is sad to see that the profession of a teacher - a once highly regarded profession of any civilised society - has degraded so much in status and salary. The main issue that is mentioned here, but somehow it is getting overshadowed by the tax deduction, is that teachers no longer seem to be paid a living wage and the schools no longer seem to even provide basic provisions and maintenance.
Reading that chart was just odd.
Everyone understansd the idea of paying for pencils and photocopies and maybe some books as a teacher, that makes perfect sense, but a teacher paying for cleaning supplies?
Decor?
Prizes?
Whatās next? Teachers doing the plumbing, and painting the walls, and re-tiling the floors?
And why are they even expected to do so?
It is mind-boggling.
If anyone knows why all that is happening over there, some context would be very appreciated 
funny that a poli-tician would say that ā¦ wasnāt the original concept of politics being a calling as well 
Even funnier, it was the greatest teacher of the past century in my country that wrote about exactly that and reminded a lot of people of a dialogue Socrates had with a politician of the time, Kalliklis.
āTeachers of virtueā he called the politicians, so they are a kind of teacher themselves and they should also be a ācallingā with no gain, eh?
Iāll find it tomorrow and translate it to put it on the language learnerās library. Iāve translated another one of his articles for that topic before. It is such a shame that no publisher has ever bothered translating his books 
What a sad, sad statement.
A missed marketing opportunity for Go
TBH Hex would be better. It has been invented (discovered?) independently by at least two different people here on earth. Also there are no āJapanese rulesā. 
While the Baroque Japanese rules of Go could only have been created by humans, the rules of Hex are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play Hex.
Sometimes I honestly believe it was cats.
Also given that itās played on a borderless board with roundy slipey stones.
Iām not convinced by this argument. Pretty sure if it was cats, theyād have stayed inside the boxes?
Anyway, you all can make a case for chess, go, hex or whatever, but aliens most certainly play tic-tac-toe. Iāll die on this hill.
I didnāt say they made it to play it; merely to torture us with it.
As long as they are not playing curling with asteroids, I think we are fine with any other game they might have in their ā¦ arsenal 
Edit:
or planetary conkers:
Overall we wouldnāt like them to be ā¦ conkerors
If aliens are so technologically advanced to intercept our messages, then they probably wonāt play go with us. We are too weak.
No reason to think that an alien astronomer or interstellar communicator also happens to be the equivalent of a professional go player or better
If we are as dumb compared to them as chimpanzees compared to us, then they donāt need to be go experts to beat us.
Collective technological advantages due to the passage of time do not equate with a similar increase of intelligence in a species
Look how much more advanced we are since the era of Honinbo Shusaku, for example. The intelligence capacity of the human species however didnāt go up during that time. Technologically we did wonders, biologically we are almost the same ā¦
Also, if we, as members of the OGS server, were crew to a super modern ship that time traveled to the shores of Japan of that era, you reckon that even all of us combined would be able to score any victories against him?
We are only 150 years after the era of Honinbo Shusaku. Thatās nothing compared to millions of years of evolution, or compared to centuries of genetic engineering.