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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

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@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 2 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 22 hours 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 21 hours 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 1 day ago

you're right, I should actually support whaling.

[–] kapulsa@feddit.org 32 points 2 days ago (10 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.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

We do it literally to other humans, look Gaza or South Sudan

[–] kapulsa@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You're right. Probably should be mostly figuratively to humans, but also literally. And we also do it figuratively to the whales by destroying and polluting the ocean ecosystems.

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

People's morality about slaughtering meat is going to flip so hard once we get affordable lab grown meat, future generations will think of us as utter savages. But until then I don't think it's going to happen at scale

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I doubt, it's going to make any sudden jumps. We have various vegan meat alternatives already, which are good, and you still have plenty people that feel personally attacked by the existence of morals, because they base their personality on eating dead animals.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Maybe that's because most of the vegan meat alternatives don't taste like what they're trying to replace, have a weird texture, or cause horrible gas/stomach problems.

We haven't cracked a good meat substitute yet, at least not for people that enjoy the real thing. We're close, but we're just not there yet.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think it's a real shame too. I've had some fantastic veggie/potato burger. You gotta drop all pretense of the patty being meat, and instead just focus on making it tasty.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You've interpreted very different goal posts into my comment than I intended. My comment was deliberately unspecific, because I'm well aware that we all live in different situations. I can buy vegan meatballs in the shop, which taste like the real thing, but if I lived in a more rural region or in a different country, I might not be able to.

But what's essentially universal to the human experience is that there's some decent vegan protein source, which folks could be eating more of, if they wanted to. So, I'm not talking about switching over wholesale here. I'm saying most people could be eating more nuts, peas, beans, lentils, hummus, tofu, vegan meatballs, whatever. You're gonna find something.

Lots of folks don't even engage with that option, though. Either they're too lazy to learn something new, or they're psychopaths who don't care about morals in the first place, or they're caught up in identity politics of "I need to be strong, because I'm suffering from toxic masculinity, and to be strong, I need to be eating meat". And particularly in the last case, they often associate meat and manliness with their food having bled out.

As such, in terms of actual morality, lab-grown meat will

  • maybe catch a few of the lazy folks, because they really don't have to exert even the slightest thought anymore, whether it's equivalent to what they usually eat,
  • not get through to the psychopaths, because those never care about morals, and
  • have a hard time with the toxic masculinity crowd. Maybe some of them will be rational enough that it's the same thing in the end, and so even though they're irrational in their belief that they need it for manliness, they might still accept it. But especially if the lab-grown meat isn't immediately perfect, I expect there to be persistent pushback, that it's not the real deal and whatever. The meat industry will gladly spread propaganda to reinforce that.
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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 81 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 17 points 2 days ago

There's whale meat in my steak!?

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 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.

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 2 days ago (4 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 •vague feelings I've not fully examined•.

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

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Farmed cervids are why CWD (Chronic Wasting Disease) is a thing. It's a prion disease. Farmed venison has a high probability of being CWD positive.

It's called a high fence operation. Rich fucks actually pay for a canned hunt inside the fence so they get a big antlered wall hanger.

Myself and my family like to eat does. Curbs population faster and tends to be better meat. We live in a county that is overpopulated with white tail.

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[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 82 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 days 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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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 49 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 41 points 3 days 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 38 points 2 days ago (14 children)
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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 days ago

Farm animals have it even worse

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

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