You bring up the parallel with invasive species—I want to expand on that a bit. The enemy release hypothesis holds that species become invasive not because of any properties inherent to themselves, but because in their new environment they are no longer contained by the other species that co-evolved to regulate them in their original ecosystem. In the case of colonial-era Europeans, this meant the commercial institutions that had evolved under the moral authority of the church and the regulatory power of local legal systems were freed of those constraints when they left Europe’s institutional ecosystem.

In principle, this could have gone both ways (and possibly did, in the case of the ideas that sparked the Enlightenment), but by controlling the shipping, colonialists acted as a sort of cultural version of Maxwell’s demon—allowing the spread of invasive institutions in one direction but not the other.

With the state of their habitat, who can blame them?

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

Nah—the danger he represents is not as an individual but as an example. His fate needs to serve as a deterrent, and apparent random violence doesn’t have that effect.

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

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!

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

The only foreigner I’ve heard glorifying violence after Kirk’s killing is Elon Musk.

They’ll rename the Gulf of Mexico again.

Not to excuse him or anything—but I have to remind myself that high-profile targets of anti-semitism (or racism in general) are exposed to orders of magnitude more of it than private individuals, and are correspondingly more likely to interpret it as a cause of things that anyone else can see have other motivations.

First paper I’ve seen where the list of authors is longer than the main content.

They gave my younger sister a traditionally masculine name, so apparently they were already out of ideas on that score.

That’s never stopped him before.

Judging from right-wing media, all mass shooters secretly become trans just before pulling the trigger.

Is that technically blackmail, or extortion/racketeering?

I don’t have a thermostat, but I have indoor and outdoor temp and humidity sensors, and a window position sensor. HA notifies me (via lighting color) if I should open the window because the outdoor conditions are better than indoors, or vice versa.