I think part of intelligence is the ability to recognize patterns that can be abstracted and generalized, and memorizing data is just one means of making the data available to your brain for pattern recognition.

Like, if you come up with a possible theory, the quickest way to test it is to see if anything you already know would invalidate it; so the more you know, the more quickly you can sift through possible theories.

So, yeah—education reminds you that you might be wrong, and memorizing things gives you a tool to prove it.

Wikipedia has further details:

Tigers depress wolf (Canis lupus) numbers, either to the point of localized extinction or to such low numbers as to make them a functionally insignificant component of the ecosystem. Wolves appear capable of escaping competitive exclusion from tigers only when human pressure decreases tiger numbers. In areas where wolves and tigers share ranges, the two species typically display a great deal of dietary overlap, resulting in intense competition. Wolf and tiger interactions are well documented in Sikhote-Alin, where until the beginning of the 20th century, very few wolves were sighted. Wolf numbers may have increased in the region after tigers were largely eliminated during the Russian colonisation in the late 19th century and early 20th century. This is corroborated by native inhabitants of the region claiming that they had no memory of wolves inhabiting Sikhote-Alin until the 1930s, when tiger numbers decreased. Today, wolves are considered scarce in tiger habitat, being found in scattered pockets, and usually seen travelling as loners or in small groups. First hand accounts on interactions between the two species indicate that tigers occasionally chase wolves from their kills, while wolves will scavenge from tiger kills. Tigers are not known to prey on wolves, though there are four records of tigers killing wolves without consuming them. Tigers recently released are also said to hunt wolves.

Evidently: in regions where humans have eliminated tigers, wolf populations have started to appear.

In practice, none: wolves are locally extinct in the range of the Siberian tiger.

If you click the triangles next to the categories, there are some subcategories grouped by place—like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Television_series_set_in_5th-century_Anglo-Saxon_England

Here’s a good resource:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Television_series_by_century_of_setting

Yeah—“job creation” only makes sense in the timeframe of making incremental changes to industry to adjust to changes in the labor pool. On the timeframe of decisions that alter future demographics, “job creation” is a distorted and detrimental lens.

Only if you ignore the opportunity cost—i.e., the number of terrestrial jobs that could have been created with the same investment.

Nice try, FBI stylometric profiler.

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But would the energy recovered from using it as fuel be more than the energy required to ship it to China?

A trait being selected for doesn’t always mean it’s desirable to the individuals who have it.

With an average-sized spoon, every spoonful could be a different type of 6 bean soup—it’s like getting five thousand soups in one!

Ones I haven’t seen mentioned so far:

• Rashomon
• Dr. Strangelove
• Princess Mononoke
• Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers
• Ran

Private health insurance.

Seems like an opportunity for a bunch of street artists to show up at court and pull an “I’m Spartacus”.

If any element of the Marvel universe respected the laws of physics, it would break the rest of the franchise.

if the death is actually only a means to an end and not the end itself

I would restrict the intended end to institutional change—it’s not an assassination if you kill someone for their parking space, but it is if you kill them for their school board vote.

Edit: I guess I’d also have to add killing someone purely for their notoriety.

Did they select Whatsapp as a main communication channel and direct their supporters to it?

Or did they just start a group chat to reach out to supporters who were already on the app?

Two likely possibilities:

• They’re tuning out the social aspects of the situation enough that the DMN can disengage, or
• They’re so habituated to the task that they no longer need to consciously think about it (what OP calls “muscle memory”).

Or in theory, they might have learned the skill in such a way that the DMN can do it without the FPN—like if they treat it as a form of storytelling.