Olympics is a waste of money and resources. it should be banned forever.
Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment
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#82Olympics is a waste of money and resources. it should be banned forever.
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#83Olympics is a waste of money and resources. it should be banned forever.
I like how it brings countries together to play games with each other. It’s better than the alternative.
I want to read about Japan destroying China in sports, not literally.
Or are you just butthurt because your country is losing?
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#84This seems like a reasonable opportunity to remind people of this fascinating story.
It's not exactly a story about eco-friendliness, but it involves gold medals and "recycling."
"When Germany invaded Denmark in 1940, [George] de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of Max von Laue and James Franck in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from taking them. After the war, he precipitated the gold out of the acid, and the Nobel Society recast Franck and von Laue's awards from the original gold. In 1958, de Hevesy received the Atoms for Peace Award for his pioneering use of radioactive isotopes to study metabolism. Over his career, he published almost 400 scientific publications."
copied from: https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/george-de-hevesy
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#86Small details like this make my day. I also love how it was basically crowdfunded by Japanese people. It quite strenghtens the symbolic value of the medal I think.
Almost all of government spending is crowdfunded
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#87Olympics is a waste of money and resources. it should be banned forever.
It's not since it can be a great source of pride for people to see their nation represented by their best athletes. It's a display of the best humanity has to offer in the areas of physical endeavor, discipline, and endurance. Reducing everything's value to a function of its consumption of money and resources is a depressing and inhuman way of viewing the world and thankfully most people don't think this way. We're not robots.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whole thing seems to be about the denied rights of parents, not children? Doesn’t mention what any child wants anywhere. Weird to dress it up as being about the children.
Children benefit to have both parents in their lives, especially when young and can not express consent. There are enough studies and exemples in every other developed countries where it's the norm that it's not a matter of opinion. The UN's CRC is indeed about Children's Human Rights. The specific article in question being Art 9.3
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#89I'm a bit surprised that there are more Silver than Copper and Zinc in electronics .
Quote: the government collected several million tonnes of equipment, and extracted 32 kilograms of gold, 3500 kilograms of silver and 2200 kilograms of copper and zinc for the bronze medals
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
The US does not respect these “rights” either. And just because the UN says it doesn’t make it so.
Human Rights are Universal and Unalienable. But it's the fact that Japan chose to ratify the CRC treaty that "makes it so".
> Human Rights are Universal and Unalienable
Clearly not.
You can go to many places on earth, even major western countries, where people do not have these rights.