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I hope this is a joke? Obviously this is an absolutely logical decision by the canadian officials. If a large part of the native population of a country has no hope of ever owning land/property, then those people don't really have any reason to work hard. Allowing millions of rich asian foreigners to buy up land/property as an investment (often without ever living there), while a large part of the native population can't afford land/property is completely braindead. Edit: I tried to look into what canadian people think about this and my first impression is that many are in favor of making it more difficult/impossible for foreign people to buy property, but: 1) There are exceptions in this new law that will still make it rather easy for foreign people to buy property. 2) The bigger problem seems to be that (canadian) investors are buying up properties. Apparently many countries in the west are facing the same problems. The companies claim that there is a shortage of skilled workers, so the government feels the need to create a huge influx of "skilled" workers (while not creating remotely enough new housing and not banning investors from buying up all the existing properties) which then forces the local population to work for low wages while not being able to afford property. In the end the wealthiest people, the biggest corporations and the politicians that are in their pockets benefit and the rest of the population is fucked. At the same time media (controlled by politics and the wealthiest individuals) portrays anyone who mentions those things as racist/enemy of democracy, so people are afraid to speak up. https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/101qu97/canada_is_banning_some_foreigners_from_buying/ https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/102zadi/canada_has_banned_foreign_buyers_to_address/ https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/102ca6d/canada_sets_new_immigration_record_with_430k/ https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/100oh0u/foreign_home_buyers_officially_banned_from/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/06/how-to-fix-global-housing-crisis/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/03/how-to-solve-the-global-housing-crisis/ https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/16/perspectives/affordable-housing-crisis/index.html https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/17/the-big-idea-could-fixing-housing-fix-everything-else-too https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fix-housing-and-growth-will-follow-this-is-how-we-start-fjk9lcgjv https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/when-fixing-the-housing-market-dont-forget-the-neediest/2022/12/29/3687807e-8781-11ed-b5ac-411280b122ef_story.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/29/falling-house-prices-wont-fix-britains-broken-housing-market/ https://www.ft.com/content/e75fa5da-c092-46f4-b9f3-3e470f9e2ca0 https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2022/12/12/state-needs-to-build-50000-new-homes-a-year-to-solve-housing-crisis/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/01/the-observer-view-on-how-britains-crises-can-be-fixed-by-a-shift-in-political-culture

Some highlights of 2022:

This is a brilliant reply (please don't edit it). I wanted to "give" you all the available smilies as a reaction, but sadly one can only react with one smiley at a time to a comment on this website. Also: Maybe i am the only one with this problem, but recently this wesbite seems to be pretty slow when updating/showing new comments.

Would it be correct to assume that you aren't familiar with the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein?

Thanks, this whole discussion is very confusing for me. May i assume that you and phelps are the same person/speak on each other's behalf?

Yes, this is also why we never got 4G/5G and why we still rely on steam locomotives and horse carriages for transport.

1) I am not a leftist, centralist or "rightist", but a pragmatist. Thanks for trying to put me into a category in order to "disqualify" me. This is always a good starting point for a discussion. 2) Could you maybe show me where i advocated for using human feces as fertilizer? (Please excuse the question if i just forgot that i wrote that) 3) Let's assume that i advocated this idea, but wouldn't be willing to do the "collecting" myself: How would this make the concept (using human feces as fertilizer) less "plausible"? I assume you are in favor of putting murderers behind bars (as an example)? I also assume that you wouldn't be willing to do the "deed" (picking them up ... not knowing if they are armed for example) yourself?

It is very difficult for me to find an appropriate answer to this comment, but i will try: 1) How do you know that this is what he meant? 2) If you didn't ask him what he meant: What made you think that you could speak on his behalf? 3) Could you maybe post a link to the study that "proves" that people defe(ca)ting from North Korea are in such a bad state (health-wise) because North Korea uses human feces as fertilizer? 4) Where did i advocate for the use of human feces as fertilizer? (If i forgot that i wrote that, then please excuse my question) 5) Could you maybe post a link to a study that "proves" that using human feces as a fertilizer is bad for the body? Thanks!

What?

Agreed, using dead material as fertilizer is/should be absolutely normal, without this there probably wouldn't be any life on earth today. Reusing material should be the standard, sadly it isn't in most areas. As long as it is cheaper to just buy something new it probably won't change (and the earth will turn even more into a giant dumpster). Without the need to "preserve" human bodies we also don't need cemeteries anymore -> More space for important things. Maybe churches could make some money by turning their cemeteries into fields to grow vegetables ... Not allowing things like this or assisted suicide makes only sense from a religious point of view, but not from an ethical point of view. Hopefully this will be another step towards "normalizing" humans (just one kind of animal that considers itself above nature/evoluion). Hopefully we will have things like free assisted suicide for everyone, widespread genetic engineering to optimize humans (for example getting rid of genetic disease) or all new kinds of stem-cell therapy very soon. Another interesting topic could be using human feces as a resource.

Good decision. I think some options for Next year could be: 1) Only one category for all Teams (including Pairs)) 2) Two categories: Best team (men/women/mixed) + best pair (men/women/mixed) 2) Three categories: Best men‘s Team (including pairs) + best women‘s Team (including pairs) + best Mixed team‘s (including pairs) I understand the reasoning for having an own category for every kind of team/pair, but in my opinion this makes the awards less competitive/interesting. I am also not sure what category relays belong in? Where does the swimming mixed medley relay belong for example?

Then you should read More closely ...

Speak for yourself please. Also only part of the last world cup season was part of 2022 and that all of the current season so far (far more wins for Boe than for Fillon Maillet) has been part of 2022.

Maybe people rate 4 olympic golds higher than 2 Olympic golds and also remember that Boe didn‘t compete After the olympics (which might be the Main Reason why fillet mignon won the overall World Cup).

Hopefully she will be safe. Russia has shown that they can get to their "enemies" anywhere, so hopefully Belarus doesn't have the same capabilities.

Interesting, might be an indication that they aren't very happy with Nunez so far. Not sure how Gakpo will fit in though.

Russia? I don't see how they will dominate Japan or South Korea, especially if their players can't play in european competitions with their clubs.

Did you see the official film on the 1972 olympics?

- German government also just signed a deal to buy LNG from Qatar (starting in 2026) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/29/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar - Noone (person or government) can be morally infallible in this world (or to use the words of a famous german philosopher "There is no right life in the wrong one."). Also don't you think that being good 10 % of the time is better than being good 0 % of the time? I would like to end my comment with an other quote of the same german philosopher you might be interested in: “Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”

Sorry if it has been posted before ...

Someone i didn't mention (since she won her gold in a non-olympic weight category): Amit Elor (born 2004) This year she won the world U20, world U23 and senior world championships, becoming the youngest world champion in american wrestling history. I am no wrestling expert, but her results suggest that she might be the next big thing in women's wrestling.

https://www.zdf.de/sport/zdf-sportreportage/olympia-1972-muenchen-terror-doku-100.html

Sadly i was right, he now competes for the US, after winning world U20 gold (as a 16 year old) in men's sabre for Germany earlier this year. He has a very "interesting" biography. Until recently he lived and trained in Germany, but now he trains in Orleans (France) and competes for the US. Huge blow for Germany obviously, maybe he can be a darkhorse for a medal in Paris. In the same article where i found this information, it also said that (according to german officials) one reason why Germany is becoming less and less competitive is that apparently there is a new kind of fencing "school" in multiple places across the world where rich parents send their kids to maximize their talent. In the article it said that those schools cost up to 30 000 € a year ... Not sure what to make of that. Maybe rich parents send their kids to those schools because they hope that it will earn them a scholarship from one of the top US universities?

Personally i am more excited to see the development of certain young athletes than to watch certain big competitions. I am looking forward to see how athletes like Muriel Mohr (freestyle skiing slopestyle/big air), Selina Freitag (ski jumping), Emma Aicher (alpine skiing), Luis Vogt (alpine skiing), Selina Grotian (biathlon), Friedrich Moch (cross-country skiing), Joland Kallabis (athletics), Annett Kaufmann (table tennis) or Julia Stusek* (tennis) will develop. * Youngest player in the top 1000 (ranked 841) of the women's world ranking (she was born in 2008), just won the german U18 championships (winning 6:2 6:2 in the final) and reached the semifinal of the german senior championships (where she lost in 3 sets against Ella Seidel, who is ranked 383 currently). She is trained by Melanie Molitor (mother and former coach of Martina Hingis) in Switzerland. Edit: Apparently there also is an other 14 year old girl (Sonja Zhenikhova) who even made the final at the german senior championships this year.

German television made a documentary about the same topic this year (but of course also in german), maybe you are interested?