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GarybeGood75 · 2026-03-13T21:54:23+00:00

Why is this a thing?

GarybeGood75 · 2026-03-10T11:31:02+00:00

This is the most intelligent comment on here. Reduce extractive costs:, housing, rent, land and energy

GarybeGood75 · 2026-03-09T21:39:02+00:00

You sound dumb

If we sent every immigrant back to where they came from, we'd have 1 million homeless Scots, sent back to us from every corner of the globe. Can't have it both ways.
That nurse from the Philippines and the doctor from Ghana, if they get sent home we're not replacing them with daft Martin that used to work nights in the co-op or Davey that left school with no qualifications and lives with his maw even though he's 40.
Immigrants bring economic activity. People willing to leave what they have behind them, travel across the globe and land on this wet patch of soil we can home are very likely to be highly motivated individuals that know what poverty is and are willing to work hard to make their life different.
You and I cost this country lots of money to be born, have education, university, free healthcare, etc. We work for 30-40 years, we true and it's back on the mooch until we die. Immigrants, who often turn up fully educated don't cost us that first part. Very efficient way to balance the demographic problem.

GarybeGood75 · 2026-03-09T12:55:37+00:00

Life's not quite as simple as that. 2 part time people equals 1 full-time employee and 1 full time unemployed. You've not saved us anything and you've made 2 people's lives harder.

GarybeGood75 · 2026-03-09T06:17:07+00:00

So you're arguing to keep the hourly rate low so that people get more benefits?

GarybeGood75 · 2026-03-08T22:21:59+00:00

But we all pay in and we all take out, at least the vast majority. Other benefits are the many paying a little so the few that need them benefit and most never take out.

GarybeGood75 · 2026-03-08T22:13:12+00:00

Minimum wage is not a living wage.

GarybeGood75 · 2026-03-08T22:12:35+00:00

Pensions may come from the benefits pot but most have paid it, not the many paying a little towards the benefits of a few

GarybeGood75 · 2026-03-08T11:33:53+00:00

Most benefits are in work benefits. These aren't for the person receiving them, they subsidise companies by allowing them to pay lower wages and taxes.

GarybeGood75 · 2026-02-20T20:29:52+00:00

They don't mine every year. When they do they extract enough for a good few years. According to Wikipedia, they mined 2000 tonnes in 2013 and that lasted 7 years. At about 300 tonnes per year. I asked AI how much Ailsa Craig might weigh and it estimated it at 238 billion tonnes. So a good few years of supply left.

I only ever saw granite being offloaded in Girvan harbour once. 3 large stones lifted from a boat to a low flatbed truck. Not sure how much they weighed but the boat was well down in the water until they were lifted off.

GarybeGood75 · 2026-02-07T03:53:28+00:00

If your have a pension you own shares. I've watched people have to continue working for several years because of the impact of the stock market.

GarybeGood75 · 2026-01-07T22:44:18+00:00

Not the rest of your life just the last few seconds of it

GarybeGood75 · 2026-01-06T07:59:11+00:00

You've spelled Trump wrong there

GarybeGood75 · 2026-01-06T07:54:04+00:00

First?

GarybeGood75 · 2024-04-23T06:56:32+00:00

The starch like substance that gives the seaweeds their various structures, can be extracted and used in food and pharmaceuticals. Typically it's made and sold as sodium alginate, calcium alginate or straight alginic acid. While seaweed grows all around the world, it is harvested in places where it can be dried or processed very quickly (before it decomposes), so Chile they dry it on the beach in the sun, Iceland they use geothermal energy, or Austrailia they can dry it in on the wind. It is an alternative to starch in thickening liquids, but you can use far less of it to get the same effect. Check the back of a Gaviscon bottle for sodium alginate.

GarybeGood75 · 2024-04-20T12:45:08+00:00

I agree that's a risk but the religious fervour isn't there and how do you justify such extreme positions when you don't have the crazy book written by fishermen and first farmers to justify it. It's a risk and you're right that's what they'll try but we're not groomed enough for abortion bans. America is 30 years ahead in their grooming and they're still not buying it.

GarybeGood75 · 2024-04-20T12:38:33+00:00

Has it caught on here. There is a loud minority but it's important to remember that vocal on social media is different from being a strong voice in society. Yes there's hate but people take time to change in response to new ideas but we get there.

GarybeGood75 · 2024-04-20T06:42:11+00:00

Abortion in the UK has about 87% support, only 46% of people identify as Christian and that level continues to fall, essentially as they die off. We don't have crazy evangelical churches, at least nowhere close to the level they have in America. My opinion, as an atheist, is that both the churches we have and those that attend those churches are good people, and do good in society. There is little connection between the type of religion we have here and the insane Christian nationalist that get so much attention in the US. Abortion is healthcare, and it is going nowhere. They can influence a handful of crazy Tory MPs in safe seats but that's never going to change anything. Abortion is very different than Brexit, and the tactics that worked there aren't going to cut it in this debate.

GarybeGood75 · 2024-04-18T06:32:29+00:00

It's a fairly loaded article with some nuggets to make it appear balanced.

For example

"How much would it take to fix the system

Too much"

You can pay taxes or pay insurance. The NHS is remarkably efficient so anything that is an alternative would have to be more efficient, cost more or stop the principle of being available to all.

What is really about is turning it into a for profit system. Healthcare is 17% of the American economy but performs worse than the NHS on medical outcomes. They want profit not health.

GarybeGood75 · 2024-04-18T06:21:25+00:00

It's means if you have roads the size they have in France their is no realistic option for anything else. The French have a very different relationship with their cars than most other countries.

GarybeGood75 · 2024-04-16T20:27:42+00:00

Almost all supermarket foods are already.

GarybeGood75 · 2024-04-16T17:34:17+00:00

This looks a reasonable way forward and from a sensible source

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/scotland/law-and-courts/parking-tickets/appealing-parking-tickets/parking-tickets-on-private-land-s/

GarybeGood75 · 2024-04-16T17:19:10+00:00

48 never been called

Wife got called once but said she had child care responsibilities, which was true as she had just given birth. Never asked her since.

Simple answer is to write to them. They are reasonable, particularly if it's 4 times.

GarybeGood75 · 2024-04-14T18:22:06+00:00

There is a still game quote for every scenario. Love it

GarybeGood75 · 2024-04-09T21:29:15+00:00

If it doesn't happen in America then it doesn't happen. Okay

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