3/4 of the choir doesn't see the conductor 😄 (the band conductor also conducts? Interesting)

In which context would you use Hilfeleistungslöschgruppenfahrzeug instead of Feuerwehrfahrzeug?

It probably wouldn't be allowed under an authoritarian government though...

Okay, I had a listen. Basically his arguments are:

• People don't want it, it is forced through ruse by socialist politicians.
• It removes freedom from patients to choose their insurance, health care provider etc.
• It removes freedom from physicians to choose their working methods and living/practicing location. The state will control every aspect of their profession.
• By slippery slope, it's going to lead to the same for every profession.

So it's an attack point to impose socialism in America. Eh.

What's the marketing meaning? I only know about the psychological effect of feeling anxious when disconnected or not taking part to an event.

In french, we call this "useful vote" and it sucks when it is a crucial strategy... but in a flawed electoral system it unfortunately is.

Ah yes, the cursed Germanic loop:

who (EN) translates to wie (NL)

wie (NL) sounds like wie (DE)

wie (DE) translates to hoe (NL)

hoe (NL) sounds like who (EN)

The Walloon language! The historical and almost extinct language of the region I've been living in for some time but from which I don't really have ancestry (more from the other region of the country).

The language has a really bad reputation (it's supposedly rude, so different from city to city that it's useless to communicate, etc.) Almost nobody is left speaking it and the overwhelming majority thinks its good thing.

It's fascinating, there's a small group of people trying to standardize it. There's some drama because the other promoters of the language are academics who want to preserve the local varieties, the opposite to standardization.

I've not used it yet, but I plan to try photoprism at some point.

E: ah, just saw your edit about self host, sorry.

Chat is written like "cat" but is pronounced like in english. The animal is pronounced like "shah".

Two solutions that I see:

1. Mods and/or admins need to be notified when a post has a lot of upvotes from accounts on the same instance.
2. Generalize whitelists and requests to federate from new instances.

Quantum entanglement is closely related with another quantum phenomenon that you might already know: the superposition principle. Let's say that I have a particle. My particle spins on itself. If I measure its spin, it can either spin to the left or to the right. I cannot know in advance whether it will spin to the left or to the right. And it's not just a lack of information because we can create an experiment in which the different spins of a single particle can interfere. We say that the particle's spin in a superposed state of both left and right, until we measure it.

Now there's already a good thought experiment that explains quantum entanglement: Schrödinger's cat. I have trapped a cat in a box, and I have installed a cruel setup inside. There's a detector in which I can enter my particle. If it spins to the right, the detector breaks a bottle of poison that kills the cat. If it spins to the left, nothing happens. Importantly, the detector does not communicate the measurement to me.

Now, I insert my superposed particle inside the detector and don't look at the result. The particle exits the detector and I can keep it. Because my particle was in a superposed state, I don't know wether the detector has measured a right or left spin. I don't know whether the cat is dead. Once again, it's not just a lack of knowledge because I could imagine an experiment in which its dead and alive state interfere.

Now imagine that I make a measurement of the particle's spin and it measures right. Then, I am 100% certain that the cat will be dead once I open the box. Even though both the particle and the cat were still in superposition, once I measure one, I will know the state of the other. That's quantum entanglement.

It's important because we can use this interaction between quantum objects to copy and paste information in a quantum computer without making a measurement. A measurement would damage the quantum information because it would collapse the superposed state.