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This isn't really appropriate for the purposes of this thread.

That.

Though, uh. That said, religious institutions or ones related to or supported by religious institutions, actually have been the vehicle for a great deal of technological and methodological advancement over the centuries. Islam in particular is known for its advancements in mathematics and medicine some few hundred years back, iirc, and it was the religiously trained that kept quite a bit of european knowledge transmitting and advancing during great swaths of history. Church hasn't been doing much directly nowadays (barring a great deal of religion-backed investment into medicine, anyway. Well, and all the church-going scientists/engineers/etc., of which there are many.), but that's quite untrue for most of written history.

Credit where credit is due, for all that religious institutions have had their conflicts with scientific advancement, they've also had a great deal of interrelation and cooperation. It's incredibly far from a simple picture when it comes to that sort of thing.

At every stage of the game, I usually put only 1 point of province defense everywhere.

More explicitly here, if you're playing multiplayer, you always put at least one point of PD everywhere. No exceptions, ever. If PD = 0, make PD >= 1.

Otherwise, at some point in the game, that critter that's been spewing scouts everywhere (which is, quite possibly, everyone*) will cheerfully conquer every single undefended province you have on the same turn their major military forces decide to slam into you.

... which is kinda' fun to be on the giving end of, but not on the receiving :V

*And should definitely include you. If you don't have particularly notable national scouts (Fliers, spies, assassins), the instant you conquer an indie province that produces scouts, you set that province to auto-recruit scouts and never turn it off. There's not terribly many ways you can better spend 25 gold.

... yeah, that was pretty specifically satirical commentary on the unfortunately standard defamation campaigns directed towards victims of police excess.

I think the question I'd ask is if bigoted thought without action is possible. I guess it is conceptually, but I've personally never met a bigot that didn't let their beliefs influence their actions.

... and I've kinda' met a lot of bigots, unfortunately. Some of them otherwise fairly decent people. Some of them even on fairly good terms and magnanimous towards those they're bigoted against. But it still shines through. Still influences how they act towards people, both those they are and, to some degree more importantly, those they aren't bigoted towards.

Maybe bigoted thought isn't inherently bad when it doesn't lead to action, I've just never actually seen that scenario in multiple decades and hundreds upon hundreds of case studies. Seems like it's not something you really want to risk.

No, no, I'm pretty sure the sun's eventual expansion is the world's biggest problem. That's actually fairly likely to flat wipe it out -- most we're likely to manage any time soon is annihilation of most of the biosphere, which is kinda' like worrying about a minor mold infestation insofar as the world's concerned.

Mind you, we're still the source of a lot of its problems, just not really existential ones.

No, no, that's the name.

Pick at random, really. Krang was in a fair chunk of the comics, too, iirc.

Cloning, probably. Or more/better breeding projects, some geoengineering on the side to make sure they've got somewhere to live... stuff like that. Just have to get folks to care enough to do something about it.

Which. I wouldn't be easy to convince, personally. Macaws are kinda' terrifying and I wouldn't terribly mind losing one more thing out there that can take off significant portions of my physiology if it gets pissed. Smaller parrots are okay, though. They generally can only take out a finger or something, instead of, like, your arm.