You’re right, but bad example. Maybe when talking about Germans, use an actual German example? There are more than enough, Kurt Georg Kiesinger for instance.

But why don’t they just ask the mother whether she took any medication or drugs she shouldn’t have? Given what happened in the article, the information provided by the mother would probably be more accurate anyway. Routinely not believing women is on brand, though. Again, we’re talking about women with absolutely no history of drug abuse. I’d seriously like to know how many women with no prior history of drug abuse start doing drugs just as they are getting pregnant to warrant routine testing.

Another problem with these kinds of tests is that they are not accurate enough. If you test urine samples routinely, the majority of your tests will be false positives. (Example: you test all pregnant women, 1% take drugs, the test is accurate 98% of the time. Congratulations, 2/3 of your tests are false positives.) That’s why you only do those tests if you have a suspicion based on other data and not just test everyone.

Please explain?

Hospitals have no business testing for drugs without cause, which they do in the US per the article: “Hospitals across the country routinely drug test people coming in to give birth.” Screening people routinely for drugs is some police state shit.

You’re right, it doesn’t say that she didn’t consent. It also doesn’t say she did either, the article simply doesn’t address it.

However, I just cannot imagine a scenario, where someone would be consenting to a drug test without coercion, can you? Why would she? If you didn’t take drugs, there’s no benefit. If you did take drugs and you want the doctors to know, tell them. If you took drugs and you don’t want the doctors to know, you don’t consent. And that doesn’t even take into account false positives. I don’t see any conceivable reason why anyone would subject themselves to a drug test where no possible outcome would be positive for you. So, please enlighten me, how are these completely voluntary drug tests with zero benefit to the test subject so common?

Add to that, that these tests are not good enough for random testing. You have too many false positives, so you must have additional indicators of drug use to even consider them from a purely scientific perspective.

OP might like to shit talk the US and try to find topics specifically to do so. But they are not wrong here.

You ought to understand liberal democracies don’t just routinely drug test their population without consent or at least clear indication of a crime and following a court order. There was a time where the US at least aspired to be in the liberal democracies club. That you guys defend this practice even on a left-leaning platform such as lemmy is seriously frightening.

There’s never such a thing as “enough” as long as Trump is still president but it’s impressive and a good start. And it gives hope especially to those protesting that they are not alone and resistance is not futile.

Now, Europeans, what was you saying?

I know that’s a somewhat rhetorical question, but that’s how Der Spiegel reports on it (Google Translated):

Mass protests against the US government

They are now in resistance against Trump II.

Donald Trump is massively pushing ahead with the restructuring of US democracy. Resistance has been limited so far. Now people are taking to the streets nationwide, in Washington, New York, Chicago. They are warning the Republican: “Hands off!”

“We shall overcome,” the protest brass band sings upstairs at the Parkman Bandstand, and demonstrators below sing along in chorus. Thousands of people gathered at 11 a.m. this Saturday morning in Boston Common Park, around the venerable bandstand. To protest the Trump administration. And to have fun. Even though it’s five degrees cold and rain is forecast.

Over a thousand registered demonstrations

When the brass band plays “O when the saints,” some of the demonstrators even dance along. Almost everyone here has brought a homemade sign. “Hands off our democracy,” it reads, “President not King,” or “There isn’t a big enough sign to list all the reasons I’m here.”

“Hands off” is the motto of this rally and the approximately 1,200 other protest events that have been registered for this Saturday: in every US state, from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. Organizers had previously estimated that there could be more than 250,000 participants nationwide. Initially, given the large number of events, there was no reliable information on the total number of participants.

• In the US capital, Washington, thousands of demonstrators gathered at the Washington Monument near the White House.

• In New York, too, despite the drizzle, thousands demonstrated against Trump and his close advisor Elon Musk, the multi-billionaire head of the electric car company Tesla. In Bryant Park, they held up signs with slogans like “Pull the plug on Elon” or “I can only write this because there was a Department of Education.”

• There were also larger protests in other cities – such as Atlanta, Miami, and Chicago.

And in Boston, too. “Hands Off” is intended to be the first nationwide mass protest against Trump II. Many participants believe it is high time. Because so far, public resistance in the USA has been limited

First they come for the scientists

Here in Boston, where the American Revolution began a good 250 years ago, frustration is great, especially because the Trump administration is targeting science. Boston, with its world-famous elite universities like MIT and Harvard and its biotechnology companies, is the knowledge mecca of the USA. And the new administration has not only cut research funding for various scientists. It is also putting pressure on Harvard and other universities to allow interference with their independence.

Pamela, 61, who does not want her last name published, wrote “First they come for the scientists” on her sign – in reference to the quote by Martin Niemöller: “When the Nazis took the communists, I kept silent, I wasn’t a communist.”

She says she is not a scientist herself, but Trump, Musk, and Robert Kennedy Jr. are on the verge of undermining the USA’s exceptional position in research. “We have made such great strides and breakthroughs in recent years,” says Pamela, but now politics is putting everything at risk: “our economy, scientific progress, our health.”

Gravestones for Democracy

Although it has started to rain, the crowd is growing. Thousands are moving toward City Hall. “No, No, No. Donald Trump has got to go,” the people chant, and the trumpeters and trombonists of the brass band play along to the beat. The demonstration passes the Granary Burning Ground, the historic cemetery where heroes of the American Revolution such as Samuel Adams and Paul Revere are buried

A dozen gray gravestones made of construction foam hang on the cemetery fence today. They bear inscriptions such as “Here lies Free Speech,” “In Memory of International Alliances,” “Here lies Education for All,” and “In Memory of Climate Science.”

Caitlin de Angelis, 41, and her family designed them. They worked on the gravestones for a week, says the historian, who has researched this cemetery herself. “Donald Trump is attacking our civil rights, our economy, our foreign neighbors,” says de Angelis. “It’s important to show the whole world that so many people here are against it—in our entire country.” Her parents are currently at a demonstration in Maine.

Whether in Providence, Rhode Island, or Portsmouth, New Hampshire: in several other cities here in New England in the northeastern United States, “Hands Off” protests with several thousand participants are taking place almost simultaneously, despite the weather.

“Hands Off” chants the crowd in Boston as Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu appears in the rain. “This is our city,” Wu shouts, “and you will never get us down.” When she finishes, the people sing “We shall not be ruled.” Shortly afterwards, the demonstration is over, and the demonstrators crowd into the subway. Soaked, but inspired.

With material from the agencies

Who did that in this thread?

Dude Person, you are delusional, there are only two genders, binary and non-binary! And sex is also binary, either you have it or you don’t, duh!

I was curious whether there have been mid-air collisions in history without fatalities as I thought that chances for that are basically zero. But apparently, it happened at least six times in the history of aviation.

It’s mostly majority Muslim countries in red with the exception of the Philippines, South Korea, and the US

I had to google it, undergrad dissertation apparently means bachelor thesis. It’s a joke to give a bachelor thesis the same name as a real dissertation.

First off: nobody will cite a bachelor thesis in a well regarded publication. In fact, even real dissertations will rarely be cited. They are not considered peer-reviewed. If you can write a paper based on your thesis and get it accepted at a journal or conference, that’s where you get citations. Usually, that requires a major overhaul of the thesis, though. This definitely requires a support network in the form of a research group. Look into what your university is researching and contact the research groups that look interesting to you.

What an odd thing to say

Look into survivorship bias. The only 90 year old smokers you see are of course the ones that survived.

The statistic is an average. The 30 year old non-smoker being killed in an accident is an outlier exactly the same as the 90 year old that still smokes on the way to their grave. You might not lose anything because you die before you get lung cancer or you lose much more because you develop it at 40 years old, but on average a smoker loses 20 min per cigarette.

That’s how these statistics usually work:

(life expectancy of non-smokers - life expectancy of smokers) / # cigarettes an average smoker smokes in their lifetime

Obviously, it’s not literally like “that one cigarette ends your life 20 minutes earlier”.

70% instead of 5% is so far away that it’s pretty clear their system isn’t working. I would understand your criticism if we were talking about 10% vs. 5% but not with these numbers it’s clear this system never worked, even in a testing environment

So growth only until the west has it’s luxuries and fuck Africa then?

I guess the people in this thread here just hate people from developing countries or they haven’t read the article. Or could someone explain why people here celebrate this:

Rest of World analysis of that data found that a number of developing countries are plateauing in the number of mobile internet subscribers. That suggests that in countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Mexico, the easiest populations to get online have already logged on, and getting the rest of the population on mobile internet will continue to be a challenge.

And

The cost of data in Africa, for example, is more than twice that of the Americas, the second most expensive region.

Could you elaborate? What exactly is good about it?

We’re nowhere there yet though