tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org

https://nitter.eu/hmla1961/status/1486765525891891200

So if you mean to encourage #women “…in Africa”, “…working as software engineers”, “…with a PhD in nuclear engineering”, etc, make sure you qualify your stats and your specific claim to avoid perpetuating myths (eg, that women are somehow disadvantaged in science in Spain) and to highlight achievements that run counter to the mainstream narrative (eg, more than twice as many women than men studying health sciences at all university levels in Spain).

eg, in 🇪🇸 #Spain:

* Women are the majority of students enrolled, and get the most degrees, in _all_ areas of study — and that includes “sciences” and “health sciences” (the only exception being “engineering and architecture”). (Source: INE, data 2016/2017)
* There are as many women “scientists and engineers” as men (49.3% female). (Source: [Eurostat](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/EDN-20200210-2))
* There are more women than men employed in “science and technology” (53.5% female). (Source: [INE](https://www.ine.es/jaxi/Datos.htm?path=/t00/mujeres_hombres/tablas_1/l0/&file=c02002.px))

Today, #February11, is UN's [_International Day of Women and Girls in Science_](https://www.un.org/en/observances/women-and-girls-in-science-day/), for _“full and equal access and participation for women and girls in science”_.

While it may be a laudable initiative in general, I'm here to report two little known facts:

* Science ≠ technology ≠ engineering ≠ IT
* In some parts of the world, #girls and #women are on par with, or even ahead of, #boys and #men in scientific areas of study and jobs.

@koalie

_abole_!

https://dle.rae.es/abolir#conjugacioncb51f2y

@wes

+1 to #Graphviz

/cc @freemo

Many people are criticising the new #trans law that made this possible.

But the focus should be on decades-old discrimination by the law that gives #women one extra year of retirement compared to #men!

https://rmx.news/switzerland/swiss-man-changes-gender-to-retire-and-receive-his-pension-a-year-earlier/

#feminism 🇨🇭 #Switzerland

@freemo

A [reMarkable 2](https://remarkable.com/)

https://pixelfed.de/p/tripu/299950820122824704

🇪🇸 #Spanish

_cantar_ → _canta_
_recordar_ → _recuerda_
_extender_ → _extiende_
_abolir_ → ❓

Answer without looking it up.

German Economy Minister Robert Habeck:

> _“After being hacked I’ve lived without #Facebook and #Twitter for four years and life has been fantastic. I can confirm that life is very good without Facebook and that we would live very well without Facebook.”_

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-07/we-re-fine-without-facebook-german-and-french-ministers-say

OK, it's official: to me, #JordanPeterson said everything of substance that he had to say a few years ago, and now he's an embarrassing and pompous mess.

https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/s4e81/

#podcast #SamHarris #religion

I read the #book by this #Hitler guy so you don't have to:

https://blog.tripu.info/mein-kampf/

You're welcome.

#MeinKampf

@fidel

I guess I should wait for your post to engage with your arguments in full, but I'd say that if “our current present” [sic] is your Exhibit A, then by all means bring it on. I mean that the world in 2022 (or at least _my_ world in 2022) is freaking awesome — whatever level the knob of #libertarianism is at, it can't be that far from the optimum.

Also, I think that unless one is a moral relativist, sure there are _some_ things we all should agree are good or bad for human beings in general. Those few things should be the scope of public policies, government, taxation and (I'll say it) even coercion. Isn't that just a corollary of “freedom cannot be absolute”? I don't think Scott (or any one person) is saying _he_ personally knows what's best for everyone: of course hard limits on personal freedom should be discussed publicly, implemented carefully, kept to a minimum, and grounded in science, philosophy, History, etc.

@fidel But I'm very interested in that post in the making! :)

@fidel

That seems embarrassing, and I've been hearing about the sclerosis of #SanFrancisco for a while, too.

But I feel that proving a non-libertarian wrong in the abstract is indeed very difficult: #ScottAlexander is not arguing that governments and public agencies are always everywhere better than the private sector at everything they set to do — he's showing that they are not always_worse_. This is intuitively obvious; ie none of the two extremes (absolute statism or #anarchocapitalism) is desirable.

If you're a moderate, a centrist, or even a #minarchist, this comes as no surprise — no matter how many outrageous pieces of evidence you can collect to illustrate that “the other side” is sometimes inefficient, expensive, or even harmful…