vindictivemonarch

vindictivemonarch t1_jdvzv4w wrote

Reply to comment by Wwize in Germany is overhauling its immigration rules to bolster a rapidly shrinking workforce by yash13

in germany, they give you money to have children. it's called kindergeld.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_benefit

depends on the number of children: first 2 is 219€/child/month, until they're adults. i knew people in college that were still collecting kindergeld.

maternal leave can be anywhere from several weeks to several years. you keep your job and a paycheck with few limitations.

your employer is also required to give you two paid vacation days per month. that's almost 4 weeks of paid vacation per year at the entry level, before you count national/state holidays.

undergrad is free.

you could have all this too, if you would only tax the rich, but america sucks huge dirty donkey dick and loves it

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vindictivemonarch t1_j6iva3h wrote

Reply to comment by tester989chromeos in Development of the first chip-sized titanium-doped sapphire laser by Vailhem

ti-sapphire lasers are important to several areas of physics. they can be tuned to a wide range of wavelengths and can have very short pulse widths, on the order of tens of femtoseconds. these lasers are called "ultrafast" lasers.

ultrafast lasers require a pump laser. so to get the ultrafast, very tuneable laser pulses you actually need two lasers, and you shoot one of the lasers into the other. you can also add non-linear optics for more control over the wavelength or high-energy amplifiers for more power. at the end, your laser is more like a system of glowing boxes that takes up a huge table. each one of these components is very expensive. they generate a lot of heat and usually require several water cooling systems. they all have to be perfectly aligned to one another, so they have to be on the same, level table, and that table shouldn't shake everytime a train or semi rolls by your lab and it has to have taps for the optical mounts to route the laser around the table and to your experiment.

if they could replace a bunch of that with a chip for some people it would free up grant money.

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vindictivemonarch t1_ixqpevp wrote

Reply to comment by iclimbnaked in LG Chem to build $3.2 billion plant in Clarksville to supply material for EV batteries by Due-Reading6335

>Eh. Plenty of college graduates stay in TN.

that was before abortion was made illegal. you're assuming things will remain the same as they were before, like all the republicans did in the midterms.

you're right, not all of them can move away, but the ones you want are moving away. i met several terrible engineers in grad school. they caused a lot of problems.

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