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Cyanide & Happiness

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Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!

Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, media, cool stuff about the authors, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Cyanide & Happiness related!

History

@MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works started this community and wrote:

About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net/) and a an extra or two randoms.

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All comics posted are freely available online. In no way is the poster claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Crazy that some seem to suggest you can't care about whales heading towards extinction without being a level 6 Vegan.

[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Yup. I’m very opposed to whaling - they’re magnificent creatures - but I’m not giving up my hamburger any time soon.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I mean you can, you're just somewhat of a hypocrite

How much experience does it take to level up, btw?

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Please explain how someone is being a hypocrite for caring about species that are heading towards extinction

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

By only caring about some species, while partaking in one of the most destructive habits a person (*that is not filthy rich) can do, thus driving up biodiversity loss and species extinction

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

You're making a lot assumptions here.

For one. You don't have to be a vegan to care about biodiversity. It is as simple as choosing to care and being selective in sourcing your groceries. That goes for produce as well. Since many farmers use pesticides that kill bees, or fertilizers that damages ground water.

I know you have different morals when it comes to choice of protein. But that does in no way prohibit one from caring about species as a whole.

[–] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

you're right, I should actually support whaling.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago

It's for scientific research though.

[–] andybytes@programming.dev -2 points 6 days ago

Those Japanese bruh they savage.

[–] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 82 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 81 points 1 week ago (5 children)

If you eat basically any form of meat, I have some bad news for you...

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

I do give deer hunting a pass because they're overpopulated in places (because humans wiped out their native predators).

Feel free to try and change my mind so I can wipe that off my ever-shrinking personal "ethically ok to eat meats" list. For all I know this is one of those lies I was raised with that I've not examined since childhood. Edit: context is in Kentucky, USA 20 years ago. I don't know about deer populations elsewhere and elsewhen.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (16 children)

Former vegan, current pescatarian here.

Dont stop hunting, please. Humans did a phenomenal job of ensuring a required hunting season for deer by wiping out all the natural predators, now without them we have to have culls. If you participate in said culls, PLEASE eat the meat, use the pelt, give the antlers to your dog. We've forced ourselves into a position where some of us MUST take up the mantle of predator. If you choose to, just be responsible with the carcass so it didn't die for no good reason.

Edit: accidentally lied, I'm not a vegetarian I'm a pescatarian who outside of her 6 shrimp a week is vegan.

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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean yes, but what do you think happens to regular fish

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Many of us are against that too. Whales just happen to be exceedingly intelligent and capable of forming powerful emotional bonds

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[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Whales are the farmers of the sea. They fertilize the open oceans and produce more food than they eat. Especially the biggest ones, like the fin whales Japan has decided to hunt again. So if you like sea food, maybe don't kill the whales.

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[–] kapulsa@feddit.org 34 points 1 week ago (11 children)

This is not an isolated issue. This is how we treat animals and other humans (regarding the harpooning, we only do it figuratively to other humans, not literally).

Go vegan.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What does veganism have to do with opposing whale hunting?

[–] falcunculus@jlai.lu 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's not just whales, one could draw the same comic about other animals being hunted or factory farmed, it would be very traumatic to live through. In fact Disney made an animated one about deer.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Factory farming is indeed very bad. But the way to fix it isn't to go vegan. The way to fix it is to campaign legislators to change the laws to stop factory farming. And being vegan, you've basically deleted yourself from that particular equation. Because now no one has any reason to listen to you on the subject.

Your point makes no sense.

[–] kapulsa@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I thought I provided that connection by mentioning the harm we're doing to almost all animals.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl -4 points 6 days ago
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