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Re: Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment

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Post by sheepdestroyer »

chrisseaton wrote: post #93
sheepdestroyer wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yet the story is 'man denied right to see children', not 'children denied right to see father'.

The oldest being 6, they don't have much agency. Are you trying hard to not understand?

Re: Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment

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Post by sheepdestroyer »

chrisseaton wrote: post #90
sheepdestroyer wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

People always have those rights, no matter where they live, their religion, their cast or what not. That's the definition of Universal.

However, they are sometimes not respected and it's the duty of the international community to lobby against the perpetrators especially when they took the moral engagement to recognise them officially.

It not the wild west, there are voluntarily agreed upon international treaties that can be brought as a base for these discussions.

Re: Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment

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Post by kenjackson »

ReptileMan wrote: post #21
hellbannedguy wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Simon Biles will go down as a hero. Admitting you don't feel well is huge. Her honesty will save countless people. She is my new hero. I probally shouldn't have said "hero". We all don't like word, or label. I just admire her on a lot of levels. Crippling anxiety pretty much ruined me life.

And I admire Kerri Strug. The whole point of the Olympics is to transcend the limitations of your mind and body and not to succumb to them.

One can admire both. They aren’t in competition with one another.

Re: Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment

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Post by skocznymroczny »

AlexandrB wrote: post #78
Scea91 wrote: post #5

Small 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.

Too bad they didn't crowdsource the decision about whether the olympics should happen this year: https://sports.yahoo.com/cancel-the-olympics-japanese-people...

If you left the pandemic decisions to a majority vote, most places would be fully open by now.

Re: Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment

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Post by CydeWeys »

BurningFrog wrote: post #99
sandworm101 wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So where did all the non-gold material go? The millions of tons that wasn't precious metals? I see little point in recycling something if 99.99% by volume goes to the landfill anyway.

The point is the symbolic gesture. This doesn't help with any environmental goals.

It does, because precious metals mining is environmentally intensive, and by recovering some from trashed electronics instead you're having to do a little bit less mining.

It's something like 31 tonnes of ore must be processed per ounce of gold yielded. That's a lot of energy, fuel, caustic chemicals, and polluting mine tailings.

Re: Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment

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Post by Wiles_7 »

gitgud wrote: post #94
Frost1x wrote: post #91

I was curious about the medals, compositions, and materials costs so here's what I found. The dimensions of the medals are specified as a minimum of 60mm diameter by 3mm thick. For a cylinder, that's 8.482 cm^3 volume per medal, minimum. The 2020 Olympics has 339 events, each with a gold, silver, and bronze medal. Market price I found for gold as of this post is $58.56/g and silver is $0.82/g. Gold has a density of 1…

> Olympics has 339 events, each with a gold, silver, and bronze medal. Many events are team-based too, where every team member gets a medal.

Some sports also give out multiple bronze medals.

Re: Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment

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Post by chrisseaton »

sheepdestroyer wrote: post #102
chrisseaton wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

People always have those rights, no matter where they live, their religion, their cast or what not. That's the definition of Universal. However, they are sometimes not respected and it's the duty of the international community to lobby against the perpetrators especially when they took the moral engagement to recognise them officially. It not the wild west, there are voluntarily agreed upon international treaties tha…

> People always have those rights, no matter where they live, their religion, their cast or what not.

Many people do not have these rights. This cannot possibly be a surprise to you?

> That's the definition of Universal.

We know. That's why they aren't universal rights.

> However, they are sometimes not respected

If you live under an authority that doesn't think you have these rights, then you don't have them.

Re: Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment

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Post by CydeWeys »

AlexandrB wrote: post #80
jedberg wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every Olympics held in the United States has been profitable for the host city (and all but one in Canada) in large part because the infrastructure already exists. Los Angeles is looking forward to having the games in 2028 because it gives them extra money to pay for infrastructure that they've been planning to build anyway. San Francisco really wanted the 2028 games as well because it would have allowed us to finish…

> Every Olympics held in the United States has been profitable for the host city (and all but one in Canada) in large part because the infrastructure already exists. Do you have a source? From https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/economics-hosting-olympic-g... > As a result, in 1979 Los Angeles was the only city to bid for the 1984 Summer Olympics, allowing it to negotiate exceptionally favorable terms with the Internati…

Atlanta 1996 turned a profit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics

Re: Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment

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Post by m4rtink »

numpad0 wrote: post #4

They were going for sustainability angle like recycled medals, stadium benches out of reused wood, cardboard hybrid beds for the village, etc. COVID blew them all away though.

It's so unfortunate! The 2020 Olympics was supposed to be the start of the new Reiwa Era, rebirth after the devastation of the 2011 quake, like the 1964 Olympics and 1970 expo were a sign of rebirth after the end of the war.

Already during our visits to Japan in 2017 and 2019 we could see a lot of infrastructure work going on all around, lots of optimistic Olympic advertising and countdowns. It really should have been an even presenting modern Japan to the whole world, with the expectation that many of the countless tourists who would go for the Olympics would like Japan and return.

But with covid this is all gone, a lot of expensive infrastructure that will take many years to pay back without all the tourists and possibly bad image of Japan on the international stage & dissatisfaction with the government and foreign organizations in the Japanese population.

Oh well, at least Akira did not happen. ;-)

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Post by Retric »

ColonialOne wrote: post #48
spodek wrote: post #46

The 10,000+ athletes who flew around the world and the 100,000-odd attendees who also flew around the world can all offset their emissions with that savings /sarcasm. I love athletics and competition, but do the Olympics promote activity or more sedentariness? They are certainly devastating to the environment. We can achieve more sport, communication, and what they Olympics represent by promoting local fun and games:…

Out of interest do you think it's worth sacrificing international sport competitions for the sake of the environment? What level of travel would you support, are continental competitions ok? National competitions?

Moving the athletes is effectively trivial for these completions. It’s the spectators and facilities which represent most of the pollution. Olympics is a huge outlier in terms of athletes and it’s still 100 spectators in the stands per 1 athlete.
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