OT: Sens Lounge - Golf season is over edition

[BondraTime]

Golf is awesome

 

[maclean]

Golf can be awesome and still a reprehensible waste of resources, the two things are not mutually exclusive. At the same time, it does "create green space" that is better than the concrete wasteland generally associated with urban sprawl. Like a shopping mall is a much worse waste of resources without the habitat for wildlife and at least some carbon absorbed.

 

[OmniSens]

Baby caught her first cold Only 7 weeks old

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

How much subsidized housing could you put on one golf course nevermind all of them.

f*** golf.

Green space. Keep the elites safe!

(also remember that having good golf courses in Ottawa keeps the Sens players happy)

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

Baby caught her first cold Only 7 weeks old

That can be tough on first time parents, I remember. Quick recovery for the little one!

 

[Qward]

There is enough land, you dont need to go George Carlin on golf courses.

Rezoning needs to be done. Europe solved this problem ages ago.

 

[Flamingo]

There is enough land, you dont need to go George Carlin on golf courses.

Rezoning needs to be done. Europe solved this problem ages ago.

Like this?

 

[Ghost of Jody Hull]

Want an easy start to fighting climate change? Start with the golf courses in this city. The amount of land, water, energy, and resources allocated to what comes down to a group of middle to high class Boomers stretching their quads out a few times a week is absolutely mind boggling. "But I need 100+ hectares of perfectly manicured and maintained turf to shoot embarrassingly over par and then seeth about it until I get drunk off of overpriced booze at the 'Club House' and then drive home."

Biggest waste of land and resources in the city. And these same people will cry about 'green space' lmao.

"We can start fighting climate change by getting rid of the things that I personally don't like."

Why stop at golf courses?

Let's destroy all indoor hockey rinks too. Think of the costs and environmental impact of artificially keeping a facility's surface frozen so that a bunch of rich parents can live vicariously through their children and grasp at the unattainable fantasy of little Billy playing for the Habs one day.

Biggest waste of space and resources in the city. All rinks should be converted into subsidized housing and hockey parents should be forced to pay for said housing. People have nowhere to live and Billy is getting $200 hockey sticks bought for him. Absolutely mind-boggling. Kids can shoot pucks on their driveways with homemade sticks made out of dead trees (Although driveways should be banned too. You could easily construct a tiny-affordable home on every single driveway. Why should parked cars get so much space?).

Once we abolish golf and hockey rinks, we can get to video games. The executives at Nintendo should be in jail if we're being honest about it. Not only are they killing the planet due to the sheer amount of energy gamers consume, but they've brainwashed people into spending time sitting in front of a screen – time that could be better spent planting trees and cleaning up litter.

 

[coladin]

How much subsidized housing could you put on one golf course nevermind all of them.

f*** golf.

Golf courses outside of the city creates more urban sprawl, more pollution and more cars. You have no clue on how to fix the housing crisis, that's for sure

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

I never understood why we can't have a nice big green parkland, with a few narrow strips of "golf space" within them. Sure, you'd have shorter holes than the pro courses, but you can also create a public space, keep much of the area natural (or at least forested), and still have the ability for the golfers to play. Make it a mixed use space and everyone wins.

 

[Ghost of Jody Hull]

I never understood why we can't have a nice big green parkland, with a few narrow strips of "golf space" within them. Sure, you'd have shorter holes than the pro courses, but you can also create a public space, keep much of the area natural (or at least forested), and still have the ability for the golfers to play. Make it a mixed use space and everyone wins.

Ottawa doesn't have very many "central" golf courses, but we have a significant amount of public green space in central locations. That's not really a problem. This is the case in most cities.

Most golf courses are on the outskirts in sparsely populated areas. Is anyone really going to drive out to Bearhill Rd out in Carp to sit on the grass? If you converted Greensmere Golf Course into a big park, nobody is going to that park except for the small group of local kids who want to drink vodka out of a water bottle in the bushes on a Friday night.

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

Like this?

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[branch]

I think we should put sod over every bike path in the city and turn them into the world longest putting green

 

[Qward]

I think we should put sod over every bike path in the city and turn them into the world longest putting green

You joke, but it would cool city down by reducing urban hot spots and if you remove the pavement it would help better with water management.

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

I think we should put sod over every bike path in the city and turn them into the world longest putting green

and fertilize it with the cyclists bodies...

 

[OmniSens]

Baby caught her first cold Only 7 weeks old

My first, wife's 3rd. So, she knows all the little tricks.

 

[PoutineSp00nZ]

Golf courses outside of the city creates more urban sprawl, more pollution and more cars. You have no clue on how to fix the housing crisis, that's for sure

I have plenty of ideas. But the funding isn't there. So no I don't have a clue how to fix the homeless crisis in a way that is actually feasible. If you do I'm all ears.

I'm a social worker supporting the unhoused and precariously housed. I would love any advice you can offer. Genuinely.

And also f*** golf.

 

[thinkwild]

Lets not forget cemeteries.

 

[Tnuoc Alucard]

 

[Tnuoc Alucard]

No need to panic anyone, this pie chart with absolutely no context should put everyone at ease about climate change.

Do your own research….. the Hype about CO2 from Human activity is hardly measurable and is dwarfed by naturally occurring CO2…

 

[Do Make Say Think]

There is enough land, you dont need to go George Carlin on golf courses.

Rezoning needs to be done. Europe solved this problem ages ago.

Most countries have. The problem of insane housing prices is especially pronounced in anglo-saxon countries where a lot of people consider apartment condos to be undesirable.

These societies have decided "f*** the have nots" to an impressive degree.

Again, you can blame the boomers for this. This is very much their fault with their NIMBY attitudes.

 

[StoicSensFan]

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Do your own research….. the Hype about CO2 from Human activity is hardly measurable and is dwarfed by naturally occurring CO2…

I don't need to do any research to be able to tell you that your graphs don't mean anything without the context. They just raise more questions.

I would get into this with you, but your MO is just to annoy people and not bring anything of value to the discussion.

 

[Do Make Say Think]

I don't need to do any research to be able to tell you that your graphs don't mean anything without the context. They just raise more questions.

I would get into this with you, but your MO is just to annoy people and not bring anything of value to the discussion.

He also thought that shares in businesses only exist for publically traded businesses.

Even when he has data, he can't interpret it correctly.

 

[Tnuoc Alucard]

I don't need to do any research to be able to tell you that your graphs don't mean anything without the context. They just raise more questions.

I would get into this with you, but your MO is just to annoy people and not bring anything of value to the discussion

They’re Not “ My graphs “ and they don‘t need context, they’re pretty straight forward, and align with any source you seek out to determine the percentage of CO2 ( combining Naturally occurring and Human caused )…..

sorry you don’t like the message, and feel free to attack the messenger, as that really advances the discussion and adds to your knowledge base…not!

keep on paying the carbon Tax, that has done nothing to reduce emissions, as it was not designed to so, and don’t concern yourself about how Canada handicaps itself with a carbon tax when our competitors do not shoot themselves in the foot by doing the same.

How Much Carbon Dioxide Is In The Atmosphere?

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that traps heat and keeps our planet warm. Approximately 0.04% of Earth’s atmosphere is made of carbon dioxide.

www.worldatlas.com

Wait, the Atmosphere Is Only 0.04% Carbon Dioxide. How Does It Affect Earth’s Climate?

Carbon dioxide makes up 0.04% of the world’s atmosphere. Not 0.4% or 4%, but 0.04%! How can it be so important in global warming if it’s such a small percentage? I am often asked how carbon dioxide can have an important effect on global climate when its concentration is so small – just 0.041% of

scitechdaily.com

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

Anyone know where I can buy a small turkey?