u/DegreePitiful3496

On an individual level, its definitely more beneficial than bad because athletes generally get a chance to dsa to a RI or ACS or HCI type of school. But how does this affect the country's sports ecosystem?

From how I see it, if a school allows for too many dsa spots for a sport, it will skew the interschool games competitive integrity. E.g. imagine a school give 11 dsa spots for football. Confirm ezwin most games. Keyword is most. Still got some room to lose but generally will ezwin.

Anecdotally, i heard squash interschool games at some particular division, only has 4 5 schools. And both schools in the finals won every single match, only for the champion to smash the 2nd place 5-0 too. Like, how is that even competitive/fun?

Plus, given how schools also will factor in results to decide whether to continue giving resources to a cca, or even cancel it entirely, the dsa system, if you are not on the benefitting end of it, makes it tougher for schools who cant afford to give dsas to sports. Then it will just keep snowballing where they cant get good placements, school gives less resources, placement worsens, eventually cancel cca.

And the dsa scheme favours the top 'elite' schools for sure.

So it feels like the DSA is a short term thing, but negatively impacts the sport in the long run. Not to mention that dsa favors the wealthier since parents can afford to pump more money into getting the kid to train. Altho this is a separate issue entirely.

Someone told me that they were taught to make sure every forehand they hit, has to have the same followthrough finish positio, at this particular spot above their shoulder.

In theory it makes sense to me, but doesnt the followthrough change depending on the type of ball youre hitting? I.e. low or high. Or even late (leading to that nadal whippy thing).

It feels hard to always try to follow through to the exact same spot for every ball. Even for short balls, low short balls, high balls, moonballs etc.

I saw a FB post by MP Liang Eng Hwa and saw that Janil P responded in that video. It really did feel like a non-answer from the SMS. Hard to enforce being the reasoning. But without any actual attempts, and also I guess knowing that Singaporeans will readily snitch on their neighbours for flouting laws.

Cmon Janil. Surely you can just roll out something. Unless you smoke in your home too?

Quite disappointing to see that the G isnt looking to weed out smoking further. If you kena a smoking neighbour, theres nothing you can do; moving out is such a costly choice, plus no guarantees that your next neighbour wont be a smoker too.

Side note also. Reducing the spaces of where smokers can smoke, doesnt that actually making home smoking worse? As smokers will have less places to smoke at, so they smoke at home.

(Cant post the link here so yall gotta search for it)

Paraphrasing Jasmin Lau, people dont wanna have kids because they are comfortable with their current lifestyle and dont want to sacrifice it in order to have kids. I would argue there is alot of truth in that statement.

But lifestyle inflation should come with affluent countries. After all, a richer country like SG would want its citizens to be living better lives than in the past, no? Yet, what we have is higher CoL, and also shrinking house sizes.

It's expensive to have kids, so that is a financial sacrifice. So why does it feel like the G isnt trying to stop the rising CoL?

And the shrinking house sizes. Compare old and new homes, the old homes almost felt like too much space for 2 people to live in, that having an extra kid or two didnt feel cramped. But now with 3 or 4 room flats, having an extra person running around makes it more cramped. So who wanted to shrink houses? Not to mention no more 5 rooms going to be built (i think). Why else are resale prices going up? Because people (and i assume families) value space, space that was basically a given in the past now requires a premium.

So yes, people wouldnt want to sacrifice what they have now for kids. So why no policies to favour those who have/will be having kids? If anything, the PAP should be throwing policies out which heavily favor people who have/are having kids, such that their lifestyles are almost as good as the past.

(No, of course no free domestic helper or some nonsense like that)

Do I have the solution? No lah, im not paid millions. But i want to just express a lone citizen's opinions on how it feels like the government got it backwards, or have some backdated opinion on modern day society.

I managed to do a trade on pkmnclassic.net but somehow Beyond the Sea isnt showing up. The requirements is to do an international trade on gts. Isnt that correct?

Like the new yonex mus, head squared, and wilson python. Are they going to retire their old ranges? I know the yonex percept is the new vcore pro. So thats like a 1 to 1 switch. But with all these new types, wont they just eat into the market share of their other racket types?

Ive never done the postgame in gen4, i tend to just beat the e4 and thats it. I only did postgame in gen2 but my memory of it was that i did the kanto gyms 'out of order'. Am just wondering if theres any way to do it in order, or even go tk Pallet Town to start from there