What an odd thing to say… “If conditions would be completely different the statistics would be different, therefore I don’t trust the statistics”. What’s your point exactly?

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

They are both, it’s not contradictory

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?

Why the fuck would you make this about the US? Or Iran?

You could even remove 5 more words

but it’s his legal right.

One of the stupidest laws in existence

Schön brav mit Kopfhörern

Nur Freitags ab 21:00 oder 1‰, was auch immer früher kommt

Ich sehe auf dem Bild nur Leute sich entspannen am Handy, sich sonnen, schwimmen, anscheinend Mittags bis früher Nachmittag, da hat noch nicht mal jemand ein Bier aufgemacht. Sieht für mich sehr nach Buchleseatmosphäre aus.

Ihr versteht euch glaube einfach nicht, weil die Musik zu laut ist

Dein Kommentar kam bei ersten Lesen etwas überheblich rüber, das habe ich glaube ich aber auch einfach überinterpretiert, nichts für ungut

Ich wohne in einer Großstadt

Gratulation, ich auch.

Wenn zig verschiedene Gruppen Musik machen und generell Partystimmung ist, ist das was anderes. Meist ist es aber eine Gruppe die den Hint nicht versteht, dass keiner sonst Musik macht und meint, alle anderen unterhalten zu müssen und DAS ist rücksichtslos gerade WEIL man nicht alleine lebt

Ich hoffe auf Malicious Compliance

Es gibt genau eine akzeptable Weise ungefragt in der Öffentlichkeit Musik abzuspielen: auf deinem eigenen verdammten Instrument, mit akzeptabler Qualität, außerhalb des öffentlichen Nahverkehrs und nicht Wonderwall. Alles andere ist und bleibt sozial geächtet.