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7 votes
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How do you buy and read your comics?
After many years I recently started reading comics again, both Marvel and DC. I don’t have a tablet and reading on my iPhone 5 would be cumbersome. Besides, print is durable, looks really good—in...
After many years I recently started reading comics again, both Marvel and DC. I don’t have a tablet and reading on my iPhone 5 would be cumbersome. Besides, print is durable, looks really good—in my view better than any screen. I’m also fighting against a screen addiction by engaging in more non-digital activities.
There’s a newsstand close to where iI live that still sells comics, but they do not carry many titles.
Today I went to the doctor that is close to a large mall. After I went (against better judgement, I know...) straight to one of the few remaining large bookstores in the town only to find out that the entire magazines section was wiped out. They now only sell a few overpriced hardcover comic books.
I was giving up hope when I found a little kiosk with all sorts of cool stuff, inclusive a generous assortment of all kinds of comics. I bought a volume with stories of the Hulk, Dr. Strange, and Namor. It’s supposed to be fun. I already bought some stuff online, but I made a decision to support that mall kiosk as much as I can.
Now tell me about you! Do you buy comics at all? How?
13 votes -
Epic S&P 500 rally is powered by assets you can’t see or touch
5 votes -
Alan Parsons Project - Games People Play (1980)
8 votes -
Artistic enigma decoded by cosmic Czech start-up
5 votes -
Buildings and residents testament to the rich seams of history and identity of Kiruna in Sweden are ousted in favour of the profit-laden iron ore seams lurking beneath
2 votes -
Activists build facial recognition to ID cops who hide their badges
15 votes -
US ICE officers 'used torture to make Africans sign own deportation orders'
10 votes -
How Facebook is bringing QUIC to billions
7 votes -
A new program in Denver sends mental health professionals instead of police
9 votes -
What virtual reality is like for someone who doesn't play games
10 votes -
Persimmons are becoming popular in markets across the US, but they are much more complex and varied than many consumers realize
7 votes -
For those new to working-at-home since the pandemic began: What purchases/subscriptions have most improved your life?
In work terms, that is. Though a "keep the baby occupied" consumer purchase might minimize meeting interruptions.
25 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
8 votes -
The tree that could help stop the pandemic: The rare Chilean soapbark tree produces compounds that can boost the body's reaction to vaccines
7 votes -
A brief primer on BEAM, the virtual machine used by Erlang
6 votes -
Darkest Dungeon II is coming in 2021
8 votes -
Jazz legend Keith Jarrett may never perform again after suffering two strokes
8 votes -
Art Style Blend AKA trying not to draw how you draw
12 votes -
Vote! (For Joe Biden (Who Sucks!))
26 votes -
How a dozen possibly fraudulent and forged Indigenous artworks left Texas and ended up on museum walls in Wyoming
8 votes -
Twitter won’t let The New York Post tweet until it agrees to behave itself
13 votes -
The real divide in America is between political junkies and everyone else
17 votes -
Gabelstapler Klaus, a gorefilled safety video for forklift operators
4 votes -
Steam Digital Tabletop Fest (Oct 21-26) - Sales, virtual let’s plays, panels, talks and more streaming activities that explore the fusion between physical and digital games
5 votes -
The forklift truck drivers who never leave their desks
6 votes -
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez highlights (Among Us)
22 votes -
Greta Thunberg has accused MEPs of surrendering on the climate and environment by voting in favour of a watered-down reform of the EU's common agricultural policy
5 votes -
What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
4 votes -
Berlin mystery attack targets seventy museum artifacts
5 votes -
Filippo Buonanni's Harmonic Cabinet (1722)
3 votes -
The Motte subreddit had a schism leading to the creation of a new community
4 votes -
Cyberpunk 2077's dialogue was lip-synced by AI (Technical)
9 votes -
Does anyone else here enjoy early Command & Conquer series?
I'm not much of a gamer, but I did invest into learning these games, and I still enjoy them. There are even free "emuports" at cncnet, with online play.
5 votes -
Woodkid - In Your Likeness (2020)
5 votes -
Preparing the workforce for current unfilled jobs
5 votes -
What misconceptions would you like to clear up about your country/the country you live in?
Preceded by this post for all countries, this post for poor countries and this post for (overtly) authoritarian countries. I'm Brazilian so I get to correct pretty silly stuff: Brazil is a big...
Preceded by this post for all countries, this post for poor countries and this post for (overtly) authoritarian countries.
I'm Brazilian so I get to correct pretty silly stuff:
Brazil is a big place and the climate isn't homogeneous.
People like soccer here and many love it (some are reactionary and fight over games, as always) but it's not as all consuming as some people seem to think.
No, we aren't all extroverts, party animals, social butterflies, whatever, although I do feel the "Overton window" here on social things is more extraverted than in the US/West (and Japan and South Korea) in general.
We don't all listen to samba. While people here most often listen to pagode, sertanejo and Funk (moderately controversial music genre, though not really for substantive reasons) which are generally (keyword, obviously many songs in these genres are serious) lighthearted/for entertainment, we listen to serious or relaxed music too, mainly in rap, because we are normal.
I honestly can't really think of any misconceptions that aren't half-beaten to death about here.
28 votes -
Sweden is banning equipment from Chinese telecommunication firms Huawei and ZTE from its new 5G network
7 votes -
Restoring farmland could drastically slow extinctions, fight climate change
6 votes -
Do you use the ignore feature? What type of posts do you ignore?
I've found myself ignoring a lot of posts that are simply lifted and reposted from the front page of HN without any meaningful discussion on them. I wish there was a magic filter that'd...
I've found myself ignoring a lot of posts that are simply lifted and reposted from the front page of HN without any meaningful discussion on them.
I wish there was a magic filter that'd auto-ignore posts for me that are currently trending on HN or Reddit, as I only really come here for the niche topics and discussions.
This got me thinking: what does the rest of the community use the feature for?
17 votes -
Icelandic prime minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir kept calm under pressure as a 5.5 magnitude earthquake interrupted her live interview with the Washington Post
7 votes -
How an ill-fated fishing voyage that left Seattle in May provided a natural experiment that helped us understand Covid-19
4 votes -
‘Dexter’: Showtime revives serial killer drama as limited series, Michael C. Hall and Clyde Phillips return
7 votes -
"We’re like athletes": The lives of giant-vegetable growers
6 votes -
Robot God - Silver Buddha Dreaming (2020)
4 votes -
Google sued by US Department of Justice in antitrust case over search dominance
26 votes -
The 100 best fantasy books of all time
19 votes -
What Prop. 22’s defeat would mean for Uber and Lyft — and drivers
9 votes -
Migrant workers restricted to farms under one grower’s virus lockdown
8 votes -
Ducktales S03E12: "Let's Get Dangerous!" (Available for free on the DisneyNow app in the US)
4 votes