IntegralDuChemin @IntegralDuChemin@qoto.org

@freemo @stevenroose I wouldn't want to work there for the rest of my life. Every time I read stuff as "healthcare or pension benefits" or "best maternal work leave laws in the states" I'm disappointed when it is still much worse than having no job in Germany. But I assume that they manage at least to pay decent benefits to researchers in key positions if they want to be competitive. You don't get the best researchers in quantum cryptography (not claiming that I am one but there are few worldwide) if you don't offer more than an average IT company in #Berlin. And yes, I am talking about quantum where everyone says the future of national security depends on it etc etc (even though I don't see that yet).

@freemo @stevenroose I had no idea that brain development were that fast. In that case you might have a point. Concerning the rest I fully agree.

@freemo @stevenroose I'd love to travel the states once. The Trump administration did at least one thing right in increasing funding for quantum technology research so maybe getting a visum for said research is possible.

@freemo @stevenroose I respect your opinion although I would outlaw any ban on abortion in the first trimester and then be more liberal on allowing it up to short before birth. Maybe I'm too radical on that one but no restriction has ever helped on that one. I have not had an abortion yet and if I were over 2 months I would probably carry to term and then give it up to adoption. But it is not on me to impose my point of view on others. I can understand that aborting children up to viability and beyond must be hard and I would never do it myself except. But I cannot imagine that a woman chooses abortion lightheaded.

@freemo @stevenroose I never claimed that. That would be quite Comstock lawy... - but I never found anyone in Germany or France who ever heard of intelligent design or ever had the idea of not using decent contraception. I have to admit though that I have been dating in the hacker scene ever since which might reduce the number of idiots. But apart from one mathematician who didn't know his size and would thus make a decent involuntary sperm donor my dudes were cool <3

@freemo @stevenroose Teenage pregnancy rates are in decline right now but I'm wondering what the Trump administration will deliver in the next years. Title X is a thing voted down by Democratic presidents and voted up by Republicans.

@freemo @stevenroose According to the stats I read it got worse in the 90s and 2000s at least in the rural south.

@freemo @stevenroose May I ask in which state you grew up and when? Texas in the 2000s is different from California today or New York in the 80s. Only thing I like about abstinence teaching is that it includes how to be strong and say no, which could be communicated more in Europe as well. Honestly I'm glad if the horror stories you read are only a small part of a big picture but no German teacher would even suggest teaching intelligent design instead or along evolution. Hope, I'm not ranting too much, I don't want to be banned from qoto as I really like this instance 😃

A lot of our problems come from greed and perverse lobbyists. We could have prevented PCB poisoning in Anniston, Alabama, we could prevent tons of cancers and fetal defects from pesticide overuse in South America, we do not need braindead shit like bovine growth hormone in the West which is banned all over Europe, we can prevent the spread of STIs by using condoms, we can teach students how to prevent teenage pregnancy and should teach them basic biology such as evolution. We have a constitution declaring a separation between church and state in nearly every Western country but yet we fail to deliver. We can prevent antibiotic resistance by stopping overuse of antibiotics in raising animals which are only employed to prevent infection stemming from concentrating animals in cages or are used to make animals get fatter in a shorter time. Only thing I don't get - if you poison people for a lot of money I can at least logically understand it. But these idiots do it for very few money. Why? We're talking a few billions here. Not trillions. Billions and even less.
#rantingscientist

@stevenroose I'm furious that there are still women dying from this shit and even more that the Trump administration restricts access to contraception in poor countries only to gain evangelical votes. The Christian Right should finally go back to the swamp where it came from. No other developed country teaches abstinence instead of using contraception to prevent STI. No other country in the developed world has a teenage pregnancy rate this high and no other country sees climbing maternal mortality rates, lacks universal basic healthcare etc.
The richest nation in the world fails at delivering decent living conditions for much of its female population and exports this lunacy successfully to other countries. That's a complete desaster and even worse - it is preventable and completely against science.

@stevenroose Against abortion restrictions

Stop feeding animals #antibiotics and give the industry incentives to do research on new antibiotics. #multiresistant #bacteria

Buy organic, eat vegetarian. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/health/drug-companies-antibiotics-resistance.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article #drug #resistance #antibiotics

@freemo #QuantumPhysics #QuantumInformation #QuantumCryptography #Chemistry #Biochemistry #abortion #demography #womenonwaves #feminism #Linux #BSD #Psychopharmacology #ReactionKinetics #ReactionDynamics #Biophysics #ITSecurity #CriticalInfrastructure #Hacking

And one more on #abortion https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/07/three-children-two-abortions/566270/

@jcgruenhage Sorry, meinte natürlich #KA23 bzw #KA23leaks