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.

The funniest thing is that people who think you need some kind of qualification to vote also think they would be part of those qualified

Are the yanks okay?

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.

Same in German: “Krieg der Sterne” - “War of the Stars”, but that title was only used for Episode IV. They switched to the English title afterwards

Why’s that? I drove a Cupra Born last week, pretty decent imo. I also drove a VW ID3 and a BMW i3. So far the only European EV I didn’t like was the Audi e-tron. I haven’t driven a Korean or Chinese EV yet, so I can’t really compare. What do you prefer about them?

If the existence of alternatives is a threat to your relationship, your relationship is on borrowed time anyway.

“The massacre in the vicinity of, but not directly on Tiananmen Square” doesn’t have the same ring to it. The concrete location might also not matter that much in the grand scheme of things

That’s not how this works. She could also have been fat and not pregnant. She would obviously not be required to prove that in that circumstance.

The rules are clear, she was compliant, the airline agent wasn’t.

They played in the US?

War plans?

That would mean getting rid of carry-on and deploying emergency chutes every time which costs 10s of thousands to replace each time and grounds the plane for weeks. Makes sense.

Contrary to popular belief, what you see here is a unihorn.

A unicorn is actually this: 🌽 common mistake.

So, all Germans are you fucking racist?

We always used lignite. And its share is down from 45% of electric power production in 2013 to 15% in 2024. 60% of our electricity was produced by renewables in 2024, a new record. And that’s although the conservatives sabotaged renewables for over a decade.

wants to join Germany and the UK in spinning up solar and wind which clearly did not go well for either of them

German here, works pretty well actually.

Everyone who has ever analyzed anything statistical on the population level knows that everything you just wrote is bullshit.

I’d be wary of a statistic where absolutely no Democrat likes Trump. Some people are just stupid or have extremely weird ideas so even completely bonkers stuff is believed by some.

Go to Democratic rallies and look

That’s the biggest fallacy right here. Most democratic leaning voters never go to any rally. In general, many voters never discuss politics. You’re in a bubble.