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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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[–] kapulsa@feddit.org 3 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] RuBisCO@piefed.social 3 points 6 hours ago
[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 53 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 5 points 7 hours ago

There's whale meat in my steak!?

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 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 30 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Former vegan, current vegetarian 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.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

This applies boars as well

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

To add a wrinkle: there's now "farmed deer". It's supposedly more environmentally friendly than farmed cow, but I don't like it because β€’vague feelings I've not fully examinedβ€’.

So don't assume any venison you find in the grocery store was hunted.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Vague feelings? I think your feelings are pretty spot-on, farming an animal whose population is already excessive in the wild is bizarre.

Wild deer are more environmentally friendly than farmed deer.

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 8 hours ago

The feelings are vague because I can't put them confidently into words, but your explanation resonates.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 13 hours ago

Wow, thanks, I hate it!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Only time I've eaten meat in the past ~30 years was when I ate some invasive fish that had been caught in a killathon to restore native habitat. Not that it's my role to "give you a pass," but I certainly do in this case!

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Apparently there's spear fisherfolk in Florida that kill invasive lionfish and provide them to local restaurants. I'm all for killing and eating invasive species.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 12 hours ago

That's exactly what I ate :)

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Or drink milk. Vegetarians don't get a pass.

I only drink polar bear milk. I find the chalky cod liver oil taste delightful.

[–] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 62 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)
[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 36 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 27 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 28 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee -1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Treatlerbrain neuron activated

It's genuinely not nearly as good as people like to believe. It's not even in the top 10 pig products.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 17 points 16 hours ago

Farm animals have it even worse

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 9 points 15 hours ago

Well usually it's more injure the child so mom stays close then murder both.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 17 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Tried making a joke here before reading more about it and now I regret the joke so I edited this out.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 15 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The human experience is built on cruelty.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 1 points 1 hour ago

The human experience is built on cruelty.

Well, no. The human experience of the imperial core is built on cruelty. I'm pretty sure the Native Americans weren't slaughtering animals on an industrial scale.

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✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It's okay, it's for scientific research !

[–] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 17 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 26 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I know it's not, it's just the garbage excuse they've been using for decades

[–] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Used to be there, now I just keep sharing the above link πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

This is why "/s" exists

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