They recently had a pretty good (IMHO) song with Kraftklub, so yeah, still active and way less commercial than you'd think.

Er räumte aber ein, dass es auch andere Deutungen der Geste geben könnte, da es sich um den 30. Jahrgang der Schule handelt. Die drei Finger und der Kreis könnten demnach schlicht für die Zahl 30 stehen.

Ja, ist klar. Und die rechte Hand am ausgestreckten Arm steht für "ich schaue mal ob es regnet" oder so.

Aye. Kommentar heute früh im dlf war, dass Wissing "der Architekt der Ampel" war. Kann mir gut vorstellen, dass er selbst extrem angepisst war davon wie sich die FDP verhalten hat. Siehe dazu auch seinen Kommentar in der FAZ von letzter Woche: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/mehr-wirtschaft/fdp-minister-volker-wissing-rueckzug-aus-koalition-waere-respektlos-110083319.html (ja, ich weiß, Paywall, kriege ich gerade nicht weg).

Hindsight is always 20/20 but I still think it could have worked. Greens and liberals aren't natural enemies, climate reforms can be done via methods from the free market. A proper carbon certificate trade is still something I think could work wonders if done right and redistributing the acquired money to all citizens would have been in line with the social considerations of the SPD. This should have been the project of the traffic light coalition. Now we all now the liberals are a bunch of lying, opportunistic fucks, okay, but it could have worked if only they had tried.

Apathy? This isn't apathy. Apathy doesn't vote. Hate votes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FUZFrN2Ll9s did it better ;)

And on top of that they are generally much more expensive than American houses to begin with.

That very much depends on the area and the house itself.

So... I guess the first question is if the books should be written in German or if a good translation is enough. I'll assume the latter and just won't look whether a book was written in German or just translated.

Books aimed at children are a whole industry, more or less. Kids that learn how to read are their own target group, so you'll find any genre you want. However, as the children are supposed to easily identify with their protagonists, they are often about school children doing stuff. More often than not about kids that read a lot and are quiet outsiders. If you can't bear with that trope it'll be a bit harder, but still manageable.

For criminal stories, there are some franchises that have been going on since more or less forever... "???" ("die drei Fragezeichen" and their "kids" spinoff that is targeted at younger audiences) or "tkkg" come to mind. A very German classic is "Emil und die Detektive", which plays in Berlin in the 1920s and holds up very well.

If you're more into fantasy, maybe Michael Ende's more famous works are more to your liking. "Die unendliche Geschichte", "Momo" or "Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer" are classics as well and just excellent. Cornelia Funke also wrote neat books, "Tintenblut" or "Drachenreiter" work really well. Recently, "die Schule der magischen Tiere" was pretty successful and my daughter loved the series.

Astrid Lindgren has good translations. All her stories are terrific. Pick anything. Some "Michael aus Lönneberga" book maybe.

Not to be overly pedantic, but changing the order of things in the second part of the sentence is really throwing me off by suggesting that donuts are fermented and that there's a beer with fried dough as an ingredient somewhere.

Lise Meitner went on to be forgotten? In my city, a big street bears her name, including the tram station there. Fittingly, it's the tram to the University that stops there. Essentially, her name is hammered into all students' heads here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage

The "5-dimensional" descriptor is only a marketing term, since the device has 3 physical dimensions and no exotic higher dimensional properties. The fractal/holographic nature of its data storage is also purely 3-dimensional. The size, orientation and three-dimensional position of the nanostructures comprise the so-called five dimensions.

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Further down in the article it is a little clearer...

In this case, the 5 dimensions inside of the discs are the size and orientation in relation to the 3-dimensional position of the nanostructures. The concept of being 5-dimensional means that one disc has several different images depending on the angle that one views it from, and the magnification of the microscope used to view it.

The website even lists a little more...

In order to increase the data capacity of optical storage, there is the potential of storing more than one bit in a single voxel by implementing multiplex technology. The recently developed 5D optical storage technique uses birefringence as an extra degree of freedom – the property of a medium whereby its refractive index varies depending on the polarization and direction of incident light. Birefringence generated by the orientation and size of optical nano-gratings offers two extra dimensions, providing much higher storage capacities.

So, it's supposedly three dimensions of position plus angle and (maybe?) polarity. So, it seems to be more than just a marketing gimmick, but I can't find any information about the resolution of those additional two parameters, so I can't tell if a single voxel stores two bits or two terabits.