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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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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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[–] eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This here is straight up one of the biggest reasons I do not want a kid. Right now it sure seems like the best thing I could do for my children is not force existence upon them.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I once had a girlfriend tell me she aborted a baby I'd fathered. At the time I was surprised (I learned there was a baby), puzzled, saddened, depressed, and I went to have a drink (ok, several).

But of course she was right.
What kind of lunatic would raise children nowadays?

However The problem is that only lunatics would raise children nowadays. So we'll end up with people raised by lunatics. Our species will drift towards lunacy. (Ok, we're already looneys) Is it realistic to throw kids into the boiling pot to counter the crazy ones? Or should we just let the crazies fight amongst themselves?

I'm for the lmatter (also I won't be there, so it's not like I care, unless I can haunt them, in which case theyre going to fucking suffer), what's your POV?

[–] eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago

As much as I'd like humanity to improve, it feels off to task my not-yet-existent child with trying to fix humanity. It still simply doesn't feel right to bring a child into this existence, and it still doesn't feel right to task them with fixing it all.

If I had more hope that very serious improvements are guaranteed, I might be more keen on it. As it currently sits, it's not my unborn child's job to fix what I failed to fix.

[–] AlfredoJohn@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I struggle with this line of reasoning as almost every generation before has had similar struggles. World wars, great depressions, authoritarian regimes/dictators, and nuclear wars, just to name a few of the most recent. Add in historical contexts like plagues, invasions, witch hunts, etc. If people had the same thoughts as this then none of us would be here today, I dont fault my parents for the state of the world even if I wish it was better but I'm glad I get to experience the mystery we call consciousness and help better the world for all those in the future that come after me. If those with common sense stop having kids and teaching all we are guaranteed to do is make the world even worse off for those living today and let stupidity continue to rise in those who will be born in the future. The hateful and idiotic people aren't questioning whether they should have kids, so if we can counter that by having and raising well-adjusted kids its imperative we try. Otherwise, humanity will be doomed to be full of hateful bigots that will destroy ourselves.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 months ago

If I look at world news for the decade I was born (and more importantly, contemporary sources for what was actually happening in that decade), I can tell you two things. 1: That decade was objectively worse than the current one for a large fraction of earth's population, and 2: I don't resent my parents for birthing me into that decade. I'd rather be alive than not, and that's mostly history now anyway.

The best part of my above comment, is you can't tell what decade I was born from the content. They were all f'n bad.