The monkey that sold them to me said they were quite alright.
Behold the atheist’s nightmare!
I knew the video, but thanks for sharing it again. I love the amazed expression of the younger guy when he gets the Pepsi can.
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Yes, of course.
Since the video also mentions the eye in its fallacious arguments, I’ll just leave this here
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I love bananas. When I read about their endangerment some years ago and mentioned it to my best friend, he said, “Look on the bright side: you may go before the bananas do.”
After the bananas are gone, I will eat the pith (not the seeds) of the honeylocust pods, which taste very much like banana. It was, if I remember rightly, slightly more acidic tasting, but not unpleasant. I ate a fair amount once and suffered no ill effects.
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The banana ridges killed me. I’m dead.
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Question: Does anybody know if YT counts views (and other stats, like view time) from embedded videos or only if you watch on youtube.com?
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I had not ever seen that and thank you for sharing 
Apart from the scientific arguments that one can present, I think that a similar level of counter-arguments to the propositions of the video can be equally effective. For example:
A) A soda can has a “made in country X” or “made by factory X” tag on it. Humans, animals and plants have no such mark made by God (checkmate 
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B) A lot of people do not peel the banana from the stem, but by scratching it at the end where they claim it is easier and more “natural”. So, the stem argument is gone too, alas.
C) We do not really need ridges to hold the banana, it is the inside of the banana peel that is slippery (also an unnecessary and dangerous trait), so they are, in fact, arguing that God is making unnecessary things (shame on them ).
D) Banana trees only occur in tropical climates, but those dudes are white and come from places where no banana was ever seen in millenia. So, they are arguing that “God made the banana tree for humans”, but at the same time this de facto means that “God made the banana trees only for the few select people that he liked most”, therefore people living in the tropics are the ones trully favored by God, unlike those second-rate-in-the-eyes-of-God-so-no-bananas-for-you in the video. 
Edit (I forgot the best one: Since they cut whatever they wanted from Darwin, there: )
E) The Bible says “…There is no God…” ? See? Straight from the Holy Book itself. Tadah! ( Psalm 14, for the curious)
Same logic as their own, so they cannot argue back ehehehe.
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My wife is making me watch “the queen’s gambit” and I can’t help but wonder how it would be if it centered around Go and not chess. Mainly, what would it be called? “The high Chinese”?
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“the monkey jump”? I don’t know, I think Go has some very nice names for many concepts and shapes. If we make a show called Empty Triangle, we could have some comvoluted lovestory as a side plot. Peeping at the Tiger’s Mouth. Not bad either.
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I’m going to shamelessly plug Misaeng again, excuse me.
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I wanted to respond yesterday, but took a whole day to find a particular book in my collection. I was stupidly looking among my archeology books, when it was actually logically shelved among my native American culture books.
I think most people today would find the Inca (today often spelled “Inka”) culture intolerably totalitarian. They had a religious police that was at least as oppressive, or even more so, as those that exist in some Muslim countries today. The Inca religious police had virtually unlimited power to go into homes and largely do whatever they wanted on the pretext of a religious violation. The Inca culture was also highly imperialistic.
I don’t think that the development of a communist system among the Inca is that surprising. Most primitive societies are communal, commonly with sharing of food and tribal lands. This admittedly tends to evolve into a hierarchic structure of kings and ruing elites. But in the case of the potlatch cultures (most notably in the Pacific Northwest and in New Guinea), we see the retention of a quasi-socialistic society under the rule of a “Big Man,” although the social dynamics involved are quite different from modern societies (with our rigid, empowered hierarchies). This leads me to think that the Incas may have sprung from a potlatch culture. This is my own speculation, as I have no idea what the modern scholarly literature says, or whether there is any specific evidence of that idea.
I have read modestly about the Inca, as part of my wider reading in cultural anthropology and exploration. I started with Von Hagen (at age 11) and Prescott, and subsequently read several accounts from the Conquest and early colonial period. The best, and I think the most important, is Narrative of the Incas by Juan de Betanzos. This wasn’t fully translated into English and published until 1996 (University of Texas). I read it a few years later. It is, I think, probably the most reliable of any source due to the pedigree of its sources. The author, who finished it in 1557, was the translator for Pizzaro. His wife was the niece of the last Inca, Huayna Capac, and was married to Atahualpa when she was 10. Consequently she was a fount of Inca history and tradition. It is most important, I think, for its picture of the Conquest from the Inca point of view, especially resolving the long-debated issue of whether the Incas really thought that Pizarro and his men fulfilled prophecies and were therefore god-like emissaries. Betanzos says that Atahualpa’s advisors were split on the question and that Atahualpa fatally dithered. In addition, there were political rivalries that undermined united action (because Atahualpa himself was a usurper). Had they acted quickly, they could have easily annihilated Pizarro.
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I’d say the Queen’s Gambit opening was chosen (for the book) both because it’s quite a catchy title and because the main character is female which the word ‘Queen’ harmonizes with to some extent.
I don’t think we have great Fuseki names for any gender, unless you’re making a film about Shusaku or Kobayashi or something like that.
It’s probably better to just come up with a catchy nickname for the main character and name it that 
Some actual nicknames of players were discussed in this thread Comprehensive list of Pro player's nicknames?, but I’m sure one could make one up for a fictional character.
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I don’t think this applies to the Inca. 
I will look into the rest of the sources, see what I can find.
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I wasn’t saying they were a primitive society, but like all societies, ours included, they were a primitive society in remote antiquity (pre-Inca) that evolved into the Inca society.
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I agree with this interpretation. I’d also add that there’s a subtext in that the gambit itself is a high-stakes sacrifice where you put everything on the line, much like in the series. You win or lose spectacularly.
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That’s why I thought a drug reference go opening name might be appropriate…
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Is there a way to make the game icons any bigger? I mean the ones in Chat or within the chat in a group specifically?
Resizing things doesn’t seem to help, nor really zooming in with ctrl+
Did you know this?
For the lazy ones, this is the core sentence:
“I used to play go on my lunch break. One day, while arranging the black and white pieces on the grid, it hit me that it represented a straightforward way of conveying information. It was a eureka moment.”
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Well, not much of a question, but isn’t it rare to have a “Go spotting” moment and the board shown is not a random assortment of stones, but an actually valid game position?
Spotted in the game “Cyberpunk 2077” by a friend, in some random location (which makes the dedication of the designers in actually making a valid game, even more impressive)
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That Go board is melting my mind! It’s a 19 board with half the lines but looks like a 9x9 with tiny stones (except it’s 10x10)…
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