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Peter Hicks
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Posted: 28 May 2023 at 3:56am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

 For companies like Archie and Harvey, the bulk of their money came from reprints.”
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When DC was floundering, and approached Marvel about licensing DC characters to them, DC was also seriously considering going to an all reprint model.

I think most of the public understands that this writers’ strike is just the first of many future disputes to stop AI from replacing people.  
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Posted: 28 May 2023 at 11:46am | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Marc, thanks for doing all this gratis writing. Who is writing these poster boards, I’d like to see some credits, and are there any residuals if they go viral?

Seriously though, I hope this gets resolved amicably and soon and they don’t replace you all with shitty AI writers because we need reality and humanity in our arts and entertainment. 
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Posted: 28 May 2023 at 3:08pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

This reminds me of the thousands of pianists who were suddenly out of work when SOUND came to motion pictures.

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Posted: 28 May 2023 at 4:27pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Yeah, I was thinking of jobs lost do to tech, and for whatever reason the Iceman was the first to come to mind.
Obviously the pianist is most relatable here.
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Posted: 28 May 2023 at 6:45pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

I’m just old enough to remember the flock of attendants that would swarm around my Dad’s car when we pulled into a SERVICE station. The concept of “self serve” wiped out those jobs.
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Posted: 28 May 2023 at 9:17pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

The days of the "pit crew" had long vanished by the time I came around.
Full service consisted of 1 guy who would clean your windows and pump. If you asked nicely he would check your oil.

Something I used to do as a kid is practically gone. The Paperboy.
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Posted: 29 May 2023 at 12:43am | IP Logged | 7 post reply

There is a station close to me that still pumps your gas.  The guy who runs it is an ace mechanic, but he's got to he 60-something and when he retires that's it.  

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Doug oh yeah the paperboy job.  Getting up early to deliver the morning paper on your bike.  I remember some of the guys who worked at the paper shack sneaking smokes, thinking they were real big.  I think we were maybe ten or so.  
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I didn’t have a paper route, but for a while in my tweens I did mow lawns and shovel snow, seasonal jobs not likely ever to go away.
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Yeah, we did that too.  We even used to paint rocks we found at the railroad tracks and walk them door to door in the neighborhood selling them as art.  Anything to try to get some $$$ to get a few comics, and candy.  
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Posted: 29 May 2023 at 1:21pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply

There’s a blast of OT nostalgia.

During one of the multiple times we lived in the Bel Air apartments, and I attended Inglewood Elementary, my shortcut to school was across the open spaces surrounding what looked like an industrial complex, but what was actually a huge (to me) hospital for indigenous peoples. In the middle of this sprawl, poking into one of the buildings, was a kind of large alcove that was a small shop for the patients and staff. And anyone else who wandered by, like me. I’d gather glass pop (soda) bottles and trade them in for various candy, most especially my favorite, black licorice “shoestrings”.

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i was a paper boy when i was a kid. it paid so little that any real pocket change i had was given to me by my parents in exchange for chores.

this was only about a decade ago, mind you. from what i can gather, when my dad was a kid you could make some good money delivering papers.


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