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Cyanide and Happiness

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About

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

@[email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Thankfully, my books are made out of the flesh of my enemies.

Recycling for a cleaner future!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Please attach a note so that after you death, nobody accidentally reads it out loud and create an Evil Dead situation thankyouverymuch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Klaada Baratu Necktie!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

If anyone reads anything aloud from a flesh-bound book, they deserve whatever happens to them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unsustainable, from the outset it seems like a good idea and it is for one or two books and it still is until you run out of enemies at that point you have no choice but to create more enemies and the average enemy produces 300 metric tons of Co2? It is more energy efficient to not write books or use the Internet and let humanity grow illiterate this will have the unintentional benefit of sending us back to the dark age when we produced less Co2 than most of history.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Don't worry. Enemies consume pollution to grow and reproduce. More co2 equal more enemies!

!Factorio joke if anyone is wondering!<

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you're eating beef, you're doing much more damage to the trees than reading books can ever realistically do.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Animal products in general.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Chicken and fish might be an exception (although in the case of the latter, you're destroying the world's oceans via depletion and plastic pollution, and in the case of the former, you're helping incubate what's probably going to become another worldwide pandemic).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Runoff from chicken abattoirs is incredibly toxic, so it’s not an exception.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

But beef is tastier then books.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The trees can't be harmed
If the Lorax is armed

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

You fuck with the trees i take out your knees

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Another thought, if the trees are being grown and harvested sustainably, that's potentially one of the few economical methods of carbon capture. Make long lasting items with wood to trap carbon for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not enough, even if we build all our houses out of wood.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Yeah definitely, it's just a nice bonus.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Paper is a CO2 sink so good for the environment.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's a short term one, though. Better to not cut down trees unnecessarily.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sawmills I knew about rotated areas they'd cut from and did tree planting in the summers in the areas logged to be sustainable. Of course in Canada there's not much shortage of trees to cut down anyways but I thought that was the usual way in US and Canada. I don't mean we should be cutting down 1/20th (I'm not sure how many years the rotations were offhand) of the trees each year or anything though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It's not about reducing the number of trees. While the tree is alive, it's sequestering carbon. Once the tree is processed, it's just a matter of a hundred years or so before most of that carbon is back in the system.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Not to mention the energy-intensive processes to cut down, transport, and process the trees into paper or paper products like TP.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

At least trees are renewable resources. I think most pulp woods are from tree farms rather than old growth forests.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

One million trees equals two double burgers with cheese

Aaah, the 90s were so optimistic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are new trees actually cut down for paper? Seems much more practical to use sawdust from sawmills. Is there more paper demand than the amount of dust you'd get from making lumber?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Sawdust is too fine to make paper from, the feedstock to make pulp is wood chips. Some of that will be scrap from lumber mills, but most is grown specifically to be used to make paper

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

A pity no one reads, nowadays.