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This thread is really making me realize how many people just don't know what critical thinking is... :\

Problem solving is not the same as critical thinking. No puzzle or strategy game, that I can think of, has any significant critical thinking component to it.

Wait, just thought of one exception. Social deduction games, like Among Us, when played with live chat, will train critical thinking. Critical thinking is about figuring out if this information is lying to you or not, and if so, how.

tbf that's often where they start. It goes something like: I like Rome-->I want to see that today-->How can someone build an empire in the modern world-->Oh yeah, a few guys did try that...

I think racism is more of an independent correlation than any causative element. The cause seems to be an oversimplification of the world into "natural laws" that are poorly understood, usually surrounding a shallow understanding of survival of the fittest and hierarchical structures in animal behavior. This root branches out into both racism and authoritarianism independently.

I've seen worse ideas I suppose.

The inevitable end result will be subservience to China.

citation needed

These folks like to throw around words like subservience, but I'm not sure how you get that without conquering someone militarily. People like to talk about NATO subservience to the US, for instance, but Trump doesn't seem to be waltzing into Greenland any time soon. Pretty weak subservience if you ask me, given how much smaller Denmark is than the US.

Ooh, Estonia could control access to the port of St Petersburg if they felt like it. I wonder if this indicates a broader ramping up of pressure, or is more of a one-off.

We often find a black hole because other things we can see are orbiting a patch of nothing. Based on the orbits we can calculate how heavy the thing they should be orbiting is.

A black hole that doesn't have anything visibly in orbit around it would be much harder to find, since it'd just appear to be a patch of nothing with nothing around it--which describes most of outer space to begin with. Though we could still spot one based on how it bends the light coming from things roughly behind it.

This isn't really answerable in a forum discussion, as it all varies too much depending on circumstance.

I guess the basic idea is to make someone feel good and wanted without going overboard and coming across as any sort of creepy. This is a fairly fine line, though, and where it is fluctuates wildly depending on the person, situation and expectations of the moment. You're also juggling body language and tone in addition to your words, so really anything can be made flirty, or go overboard, all depending on recipient/mood, delivery and circumstance/timing.

The first thing I'd probably start thinking about is how to identify the times and individuals where any flirting will be welcomed, which is also going to vary quite a lot. Dates are a pretty safe place to start, for obvious reasons.

Not very good ones, my memory from playing Planescape decades ago. A quick googling of something like "planar death home plane planescape" should do the trick though. I am pretty certain.

Note, I am not referring to any of the recent editions, I've never really cared for WotC updates. 4.0 or 5.0 could say something completely different. They change shit all the time.

edit: Alright, I did a quick googling. Here's a discussion thread on the topic with some citations:

https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/164187/is-there-any-lore-to-suggest-that-celestials-or-fey-can-only-be-killed-on-their

Any planar entity that dies on its home plane is dead-dead, unless otherwise specified in the lore of whatever you're dealing with. No returning to the fugue or their afterlife plane or anything like that unless specifically mentioned.

This applies to petitioners, deities and everything in between.

(edit: this is why the parties of the Blood War are so interested in new recruits, incidentally, and prefer to fight battles away from their home planes. every battle on their home plane creates permanent casualties)

edit2: This might apply more generally to the outer planes, I'm not sure. If a lantern archon goes through a portal from Mt Celestia to the Outlands, and then dies there, it might be permadead now. This would not apply if it was summoned by magic though.

This story is and always has been a gigantic nothing-burger. The science is not settled, which means many hypotheses could be true or could be false.

The problem, is who the fuck cares? Is there any difference whatsoever if its man made or natural, in how we should act or what decisions we should make? Can we do anything to prevent bio engineering in a foreign country?

No. No, there is no practical difference, no, we cannot prevent research in other countries, and we probably shouldn't even try since the goal is not practical.

One gigantic red herring.

Neat, thanks.

Can a solar sail get something from Earth to Mercury?