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Chloé 🥕
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monogramtbh i dont care about golf as long as it doesnt destroy natural resources for no reason other than privileged entertainment
Then you always care about golf. Huge impeccably groomed and frequently watered lawns are inherently disastrous to fresh water supplies, biodiversity, and probably other aspects I’ve forgotten about.
Interstellar_1You ever notice there’s zero birds or wildlife in these places?
It’s all the pesticides and herbicides.
There was even an article a while back that living next to a golf course had a really high correlation with developing neurological diseases.
Correlation does not mean causation, but it might. If there is a plausible explanation for the correlation it is at least worth exploring, especially if there are many golf courses and therefore a lot of data.
It might also be all those toxic golfers, of course.
I think this is the study. They recon that 3 miles is too close and that they have corrected for age etc.
enbiousenvy
kamenlady
altkey (he\him)Only extra rich persons could’ve created such an unsustainable and boring sport. I can’t see it as anything else but a networking context for the elite class. I mean, compare it to proletariat’s bowling, but instead of staying on the lane with everyone else (and many people from the other lanes), you can travel alone or in a small company of co-players, naturally isolated to talk about business stuff sub-rosa.
Gameplay-wise and comparing it to bowling once again, it is that random - by terrain types, weather - it lets people playing it save face while failing at it. Unlike different kinds of balls you can instinctively take for your liking by just weight, the set of clubs is not intuitively obvious and 90% of players don’t know what to do with them all. While golf is akin to an archery contest slowed down to a slog with, basically, one metric - how many turns it took to complete the course, bowling has 10 pins and a variety of outcomes with two tries each turn all going into the final result.
Darts has deeper mechanics and is more fun. Snooker is too about taking balls into a hole but you compete with other person directly. And that’s a problem with these people: they don’t need a skill-based sport-like game, they want a background activity that lets them socialize with select persons while having a premium rich-person experience, with restaurant\resort service, expensive clubs, golf carts and young boys carrying\driving it all for you to hit a ball once in a while.
It should die off with many avid ‘players’.
baltakateiTax vacant housing in a increasing amount per residence past 2 properties. Vancant to be defined by being unoccupied for 3-6 months of the year.
Tax could be based on market rent for the sqft of the unit price in the area or property tax. Make it a bracket system that steps up per residence.
Tax would go towards building affordable housing and resources/programs for the homeless.
halvar
I Cast Fist
Edna (dey/sie)
MinnesotaGoddam
Deflated0ne
AvicennaWanting to own billions isn’t necessarily evil. I’d say it’s actually pretty common to want to be a billionaire in our society; the desire to gain wealth is core to capitalism. They may not understand the consequences of it or be able to conceptualize of the people they’d hurt.
Hypothetically, if we treated it as an illness (or rather a symptom) we could shift societal norms and rehabilitate people who express signs of trying to hoard wealth.
Don’t forget the cabby
Caddy, unless you bring your taxi driver with you out onto the course. Which would be silly, golf carts are so fun to drive!
I am not a golfer, we used a mini golf club and golf balls i found near actual golf clubs.
yeah. So many places that actively care for the surrounding environment. And it gets people into nature.
People need to stop associating the sport with water guzzling rich people sport. It’s part of it, and those courses should absolutely die, but it’s far from the only type of golf course out there
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