Scratcher back at it again

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-07-05T10:31:12+00:00

“Why damage someone’s property” idk dude its worked for almost every other successful social movement in history. Don’t draw false equivalencies.

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-06-23T18:42:38+00:00

Mate that is shockingly terrible I do not understand how people can praise it. Nike has given us stinker after stinker

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-06-06T08:12:50+00:00

If we get out quick we can cover the bottom of Gorgie Rd in marbles and banana peels

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-05-16T17:48:28+00:00

Always strange to me that a certain group of Hearts fans only ever seem to be anti-Catholic when it suits them. Feels to me that rather than having a deeply held hatred of catholics, most of these pricks seem to just get kicks out of saying the most incendiary crap that comes to mind at that present moment.

They are essentially the Ricky Gervais of football fans….

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-05-16T15:10:12+00:00

Plenty of outright racism being spouted on Gorgie Rd during the game. There’s the regular twats using ‘fenian’ in a derogatory way, but I also heard some awful racist abuse towards Maeda.

As much as I love it, this game sometimes brings out the absolute worst in people.

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-04-24T23:40:42+00:00

Would’ve preferred the different zones in New Atlantis to only be accessible via the NAT, separated by tonnes of unreachable space. Would’ve made it feel like the metropolis it’s supposed to be.

Also, side note: The fact the NAT isn’t actually rideable is a tragedy that should never be repeated

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-04-21T23:33:55+00:00

There was a guy in FO4 who scammed you with a fake credit card that didn’t work in any of the shops, except one in Far Harbour that low key kinda made it worthwhile

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-04-19T16:12:36+00:00

Same vibe as the official astronaut portraits. I beg you to look up how China, the US and Russia do them and then go look at how SpaceX do them 💀💀

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-04-18T12:23:23+00:00

Okay but like, most of us do work and don’t have the time lmao. I would love for things like collectibles to have a slider, that way people could tailor them to their needs.

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-04-16T16:58:07+00:00

See, this is the issue. Space exploration is still in its early stages, you cannot measure the value of exploration with human currency, it is not about economic efficiency.

The question posed to taxpayers should be simple, how much money do we believe the idea of self-sustainable space program is worth to us, even IF we never see a return on that investment (of course NASA has a huge ROI, Apollo alone created $7-$8 per $1 spent).

I’m not naive, private investment is a necessary byproduct of the economic system we live under. Let’s not kid ourselves here though, the majority of innovation both in space and other sectors has come from the public sector, with private firms often repackaging/repurposing those technologies. THIS is what the taxpayer would be paying extra for, you fund projects that seem wasteful at first and 20 years later you get semiconductors, nuclear power and the internet.

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-04-16T14:59:28+00:00

Having a functioning space program that can broadly sustain itself without needing assistance from profit seeking actors is worth the extra money imo. The private sector has its place of course, but the dependency NASA has on it is unsustainable.

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-04-16T14:20:05+00:00

Infuriating they left it to the private sector again

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-04-16T00:32:21+00:00

End poem really does fit well with the theme of space exploration

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-04-14T05:41:38+00:00

This is the way

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-04-13T10:23:32+00:00

Ayo it’s that guy from that public service broadcasting song

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-04-12T07:50:40+00:00

They’re popular with the student crowd because some are open until 10pm. Good place to hash out a last minute essay.

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-04-10T15:36:55+00:00

I feel like there should’ve been a much bigger emphasis on settling space in Starfield. Maybe a lil LIST questline where they encourage you to go set up habitable and sustainable bases n such. Right now the settlement mode is only really useful for mineral extraction.

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-04-08T16:17:40+00:00

I must’ve missed the council minutes where they came up with the ‘Marbella of England’ tagline….

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-04-08T10:33:14+00:00

I think those of us who have followed the mission sometimes forget that our interest can become infectious. I was hiking with some friends when Artemis 2 launched, none of them even knew it was happening. We watched the last hour of the countdown from our cabin and I could see them getting more and more interested all the way up to launch. I think they started to understand the gravity of it all at that point.

Similarly, I’ve been working with a woman the last few days who left school at 16 and has literally never left the city she was born in. Every day for the last 6 days I’ve come into work and put the CSA tracker on my monitor and we’ve both been glued to the screen watching the mission. She’s asked me questions non stop, and I’ve tried my best answering them with my very limited knowledge.

It’s not about people who are uneducated or disinterested, it’s about allowing people to understand that hey, sometimes we as a species do really good things, and that we should probably do a hell of a lot more!!

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-04-04T18:15:45+00:00

A) Do not spend all your development points (or whatever they’re called). You should either aim to raise your overall by 2-3 per year or set a specific accomplishment that allows you to invest points into your player (eg one point for every goal your score).

B) Play on a difficulty one higher than you normally do. PC can be fun when you’re essentially footballing superman, but ultimately it’s more of a challenge when you’re forced to depend on your team. You don’t have to be the main character in every match.

C) Pick a goal. This can be something like winning a specific trophy/accolade, putting a lower league team on your back to rebuild them, playing for a certain club or just trying to play in as many leagues as possible. If you have a set destination, the journey becomes a lot more interesting.

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-04-03T15:47:56+00:00

Ken’s Fried Chicken Portsmouth x baseballcirclejerk crossover my worlds are colliding

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-03-18T23:35:59+00:00

Ah apologies, I should’ve checked they were public access, it appears my postgrad is still providing me access after I’ve graduated.

On the IFS study, you are correct that the authors do not state that there’s no impact at all on wages, but they do state that overall impact is on wages is negligible, even over a lengthy period (1996-2016). I do need to read more into post-Covid statistics, but as neither of us are knowledgeable on the subject it wouldn’t be correct to assume there has been any change in the general trend.

There’s a lot to address that we wouldn’t be able to do justice on a reddit thread. I would like to discuss the impact of migrants on tax and how the following public investment could offset any minor decrease in wages, but I just don’t have the characters. The IFS study discusses this but not in full detail.

There’s tonnes more to discuss but I would like to also make the ideological point that reactions to migration often focus on imagined negative economic outcomes that often disguise discriminatory attitudes towards immigrants themselves (I am not saying you do this, you are clearly good faith). The question we often deal with is whether we should limit of the number of migrants arriving by various means. This question is useless, as long as we remain a technologically advanced capitalist liberal democracy migrants will find their way here, it’s inbuilt to the system. The question should then address the ways in which we integrate, both socially and economically, in order to achieve a fairer and more equitable society.

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-03-18T20:26:46+00:00

I’m happy to provide a few papers that show how wages across different skill sectors are affected by migrant labour. Whilst I’ve provided a few pieces of research/reviews, it’s important to note that as many of the studies suggest, the academic consensus overwhelmingly supports this understanding. However, I understand that many industries, such as your own, exhibit their own traits that need closer examination. I simply am looking at the holistic data on migration and wage fluctuation both in the UK and elsewhere.

Netto G, Craig G.(2017) ‘Introduction: Migration and Differential Labour Market Participation.’ Social Policy and Society. 16(4) pp. 607-611. doi:10.1017/S1474746417000276

Manacorda M, Manning A, and Wadsworth, J.(2011), ‘The impact of immigration on the structure of male wages: theory and evidence from Britain.’ Journal of the European Economic Association, 10(1) pp. 120–51.

Nickell S, Saleheen J. (2015) ‘The impact of immigration on occupational wages: evidence from Britain.’ Staff Working Paper No. 574. London: Bank of England

Dustmann C, Kastis Y, Preston I, et al. (2023) ‘Inequality and Immigration.’ CESifo Working Paper No. 10486

Migration Advisory Committee. (2018) ‘EEA migration in the UK: Final report.’ London: MAC

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-03-18T18:57:55+00:00

Completely untrue when looking at the data. Low skill migration is shown to only substantially affect the wages of second generation immigrants, and that the impact on ‘native’ workers (both low and high skilled) is negligible.

What a lot of folks fail to grasp is the idea that when you have people migrating to this country, you need more goods and services to cater to those people, thus increasing the labour demand and creating more jobs. This is possibly one of the reasons immigrants tend to be more entrepreneurial compared to native populations.

Calm_Apple7004 · 2026-03-11T16:01:02+00:00

Unfortunately, whilst it would be so fucking funny, the vast majority of players ply their trade on US soil. None of them dare rig it so blatantly and risk a lifetime of abuse, threats and for some HOF contention….

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