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Cake day: November 20th, 2024

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  • I definitely recommend picking up trade paperbacks instead of individual issues if you don’t want to worry about continuity. They usually all have what you’re looking for: a self contained story line where you just need to know the basics of the character.

    I highly recommend the various Spider-verse storylines, personally.

    Also many issues and trades will have narrator boxes explaining the gist of what you need to know to have context from past issues you may not have read, almost always citing the exact issue if you’re curious (obviously that probably helps with sales too).

    The Nick Spencer run of Spider-Man was excellent, IMO, and has some amazing art to accompany it with some absolutely top notch two page spreads to boot.


  • Yes, full support from me. Multiple localized tests of UBI have been shown to drastically improved people’s lives. I think there are multiple other measures that would need to be put in place too in order to help minimize corporations just obliterating it’s usefulness by raising prices.

    I’m not as informed as I’d like to be, but my understanding is that things like VAT taxes can help get around online retailers like Amazon dodging taxes, as well as CEO to base worker pay ratio caps to ensure the people in a company that are actually producing the profits get rewarded for doing so. The CEOs could keep giving themselves raises, but it would come with the requirement of actually giving everyone in the company a raise too, which, quite frankly, is what should happen when your employees do a good enough job to bring in record profits.

    My understanding is that Alaska already has something similar in nature to a UBI where every citizen gets a dividend from the state each year based on taxes collected from certain businesses. This is a dim recollection from me and I am probably completely mistating how it works/where the money comes from.