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Some websites even make audio streams available separately. You can learn about those with the -F flag, and then select an audio stream with the -f flag. E.g. on youtube, you can use

    [youtube-dl | yt-dlp] -f 140 <url>

to download 128k mpeg4 audio.

Part of it is because Polanski has French citizenship and France does not extradite its own citizens.

It's the new name of the Google Art Project, which has been around since February 2011.

Having France and Germany in the EU was a laughable prospect in 1945. Having eastern European countries in the EU was a laughable prospect in 1989. Circumstances change.

The smaller the population, the higher the variance. Large countries are not bad, they are average. The worst countries, like the best, tend to be small.

Or maybe we are just making up narratives to explain regression toward the mean?

Useful related concept in the social sciences: Goodhart's law [1]

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law

> … recent research has shown that there are underlying similarities that can be observed when large numbers of synesthetes are examined together.[1]

For example, “A” is frequently red. But I don't think that is to the point where it could have practical applications. When I read associations that other people have (as in sibling threads), my spontaneous (stupid) reaction is often: “Oh no, they have it all wrong”.

Many people have used synæsthesia in art, but it should be considered a source of inspiration at best, and not a “secret key” to universal æsthetics (compare with the golden ratio fallacy[2]). From my own experience, non-synæsthetes can easily become fascinated with synæsthesia, while actually, it's not that big a deal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia#Definitional_crite...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio

He was theoretically free during the questionning, and free to not comply with the demand — theoretically.

The OP writes that he was threatened to be held in custody (French: "garde à vue"). This is a common trick of the French police: when people are held in custody, they have the right to an attorney and to keep silent, which the police don't like. So the police question "free" people and threaten them to hold them in custody if they don't cooperate obediently. Most people (especially good citizens) are scared of being held in custody, so the trick works quite well: people answer every single question and have no attorney, despite their right (and interest) to do otherwise.

In the present case, the charges (had any been pressed — he was there as a free person) would have been akin to terrorism, which means that the custody would have been under anti-terrorism rules: a very unpleasant experience that can last up to 96 hours. So the pressure was very high, despite his being "free".