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Cyanide and 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

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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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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

annoying fyi, monkeys are just as evolved as homo sapiens are, evolution is NOT like leveling an rpg character or something, there are no simple progressions in evolution from left to right, primitive to sophisticated, the assumed axiom that most people have that creatures evolve from simple to complex is wrong for many fundamental reasons.

Interestingly one of the easiest ways to destabilize this narrative are the concept of parasites, which are creatures that simplified their body plan to exploit their environment better.

[–] witchybitchy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

also monkeys and apes are very different. not only did we not evolve "from" any extant species, it most certainly was not monkeys.

[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Homo Sapiens and all apes are monkeys. In the same way as we are mammals. You can not create a monophyletic clade for monkeys that does not include the ancestors of the great apes and thus of humans.

Clint explains it best

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

right, we are equally evolved species that share a common ancestor which I think is pretty cool!

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Speak for yourself. Im returning to monke.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

that is what I am saying though, you are returning to proto-humonke not monke

[–] _____@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

that's a potato with legs

[–] owl 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"Do you see any tails? We are apes, you fucking monkey."

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Cladistically apes are monkeys, you dumbass monkey, your correction is DECADES behind trends in classification!"

[–] owl 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"I actually didn't know that, thanks for telling me you smartass monkey!"

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tbf not everyone agrees with cladistics, on account of it also classifying humans as fish and worms.

[–] owl 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Huh, is it because of evolution? Men, fish and worms have the same ancestors? But then everything would be the same.
Also are Dragons a type of Wyvern? ;P

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

All Wyverns are a type of Dragon!

Yes, the problem phrase being "you can't evolve out of a clade." Every terrestrial animal is therefore a type a fish, and every fish is a worm, and we're also all bacteria, etc.

A lot of people who say they agree with the idea (because you can't really argue with the smaller scale usefulness of it) don't like the actual larger implications and seemingly want a more vibe based classification, which is pointless. They'll say things like "that's why there is no fish clade" until you ask them what the clade of our earliest discernable fish ancestors was then, and how it's different than "fish."

[–] owl 1 points 9 hours ago

Hmm, if it is useful, it does not need to make sense.