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Comic Strips

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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

Rules

  1. πŸ˜‡ Be Nice!

    • Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly.

  2. 🏘️ Community Standards

    • Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.
    • Posts should be safe and enjoyable by the majority of community members, both here on lemmy.world and other instances.
    • Any comic that would qualify as raunchy, lewd, or otherwise draw unwanted attention by nosy coworkers, spouses, or family members should be tagged as NSFW.
    • Moderators have final say on what and what does not qualify as appropriate. Use common sense, and if need be, err on the side of caution.

  3. 🧬 Keep it Real

    • Comics should be made and posted by real human beans, not by automated means like bots or AI. This is not the community for that sort of thing.

  4. πŸ“½οΈ Credit Where Credit is Due

    • Comics should include the original attribution to the artist(s) involved, and be unmodified. Bonus points if you include a link back to their website. When in doubt, use a reverse image search to try to find the original version. Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanently banned from posting.
    • Attributions include, but are not limited to, watermarks, links, or other text or imagery that artists add to their comics to use for identification purposes. If you find a comic without any such markings, it would be a good idea to see if you can find an original version. If one cannot be found, say so and ask the community for help!

  5. πŸ“‹ Post Formatting

    • Post an image, gallery, or link to a specific comic hosted on another site; e.g., the author's website.
    • Meta posts about the community should be tagged with [Meta] either at the beginning or the end of the post title.
    • When linking to a comic hosted on another site, ensure the link is to the comic itself and not just to the website; e.g.,
      βœ… Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
      ❌ Incorrect: https://xkcd.com/

  6. πŸ“¬ Post Frequency/SPAM

    • Each user (regardless of instance) may post up to five (5 πŸ–) comics a day. This can be any combination of personal comics you have written yourself, or other author's comics. Any comics exceeding five (5 πŸ–) will be removed.

  7. πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈ Internationalization (i18n)

    • Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
      SΓ­, por favor [Spanish/EspaΓ±ol]

  8. 🍿 Moderation

    • We are human, just like most everybody else on Lemmy. If you feel a moderation decision was made in error, you are welcome to reach out to anybody on the moderation team for clarification. Keep in mind that moderation decisions may be final.
    • When reporting posts and/or comments, quote which rule is being broken, and why you feel it broke the rules.
Banned Artists

The following artists are banned from the community.

  1. Jago
  2. Stonetoss
  3. GPrime85

It should be noted that when you make reports, it is your responsibility to provide rational reasoning why something should be removed. Saying it simply breaks community rules is not always good enough.

Web Accessibility

Note: This is not a rule, but a helpful suggestion.

When posting images, you should strive to add alt-text for screen readers to use to describe the image you're posting:

Another helpful thing to do is to provide a transcription of the text in your images, as well as brief descriptions of what's going on. (example)

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Save Everything! (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

You know, I live in an area where there's randomly only paper straws and that really hard plastic lids at places.

I do really miss those perfect straws and the soft plastic lids. But I'm not gonna save them. The power of excess and ignorance and being able to throw something like that away, only to have effectively infinite more to replace it next time IS satisfying, and I miss that.

I've written about the science and engineering that goes into McDonald's' Coke, the ice, the water, the straw (omg the straw...), the carbonation, the fountain itself, the portioning in relation to the salt in the food, the syrup, and even the progressive changes in flavor as you get closer to finishing your meal and drink and the ice melts. There's so much that goes into it. Even if I'm the consumer on an assembly belt, a feedpig in a line of faceless feedpigs, I find the effort they've put in to maximize enjoyment absolutely incredible.

However, in the end, it's right to do what's right. We must move on and figure out better ways. McDonald's is now an evil company, it's garbage food, overpriced (I looked the other day: nine dollars USD for just a mcrib sandwich!!!), and terrible for you. It's time to find greener pastures and let it go. Support local, progressive businesses, as it's better for you, better quality, and weirdly also cheaper than right wing corporate industrifeed places like mcdonalds. Even a decent Vietnamese Bahn Mi is untouchable and is absolutely full of fresh vegetables and other fresh ingredients.