Comic Strips
Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
Rules
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π Be Nice!
- Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly.
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ποΈ 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.
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𧬠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.
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π½οΈ 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!
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π 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.,
β Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
β Incorrect: https://xkcd.com/
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π¬ Post Frequency/SPAM
- Each user (regardless of instance) may post up to five (5 π) 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 π) will be removed.
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π΄ββ 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]
- 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.,
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πΏ 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.
- Jago
- Stonetoss
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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I feel like I must be the only American who actually has good insurance.
There is no such thing
Your healthcare should not be commodified in the first place
For-profit health is disgusting
"Hey, at least my ball and chain are made of gold!"
"I'm lucky enough to even have an above-average length chain"
I'm just saying it's been working for me. Not endorsing the system as a whole.
Ahhhh
Of course
The classic 'Murican "I'm ok, so fuck everyone else"
No? Everyone should have healthcare. I don't know where you're getting that from.
You are definitely in the minority. The point is then to look further than your own situation and see the big picture and how the system affects most people. And then decide whether the system is actually working.
"Fuck you I got mine" seems to be a very American sentiment.
If you read carefully you might even pick up on the fact that I alluded to the unusual nature of my situation and that it's not common in the US.
You seem to be imagining and attacking a set of views that are not only not in my comment but are contradicted by it. Might be time to touch grass if this is how you're interacting with people.
βFuck you I got mineβ is a universal right-wing and selfish sentiment.
While the US definitely is further down that road I certainly see that attitude growing in EU.
Our government is trying hard to limit aid to sick people and unemployed.
both painted in the complicit press as leeches.
And don't get me started on refugees.
What would happen to it if you became unemployed?
It literally depends on how nice your employer wants to be.
I have a great job now, but I lost two jobs during the covid years. For one of them, my insurance lasted until the end of the next month or something like that, in addition to some severance pay.
For the other, it ended immediately. Like if you have a doctor appointment tomorrow morning that shit will not be paid for. If you wake up sick, maybe call a bankruptcy attorney because we won't be answering your calls.
Wow, I've never heard of one where it ends as soon as employment does; usually it lasts until the end of the current month.
Are you European?
No, but I did live in Germany for 10 years back in the 80s - 90s.
Well I have it through my spouse so nothing lol.
But yeah I agree having it tied to employment is problematic. However I did have state insurance when I was unemployed so it's not like I wouldn't have insurance, it just would probably be worse than what I have now.
Quick question, have you had to use it for anything serious?
Yes, otherwise I wouldn't know it was good.
This year I have paid $1000 for over $1,000,000 of medical care.
Admittedly I doubt it actually costs that much but even if it's a fraction I feel grateful what I'm paying is not too much.
Has it occurred to you that you shouldn't be paying anything at all?
Iβve been in mental healthcare for my entire adult life and some of my childhood. Iβve paid nothing. Iβm almost in my 40s at this point so itβs been a good (heh not even) 25+ years. The biggest expense was buying stuff from vending machines lol. Medicare has its faults, but Iβd rather have a faulty Medicare than the us βhealthβ system
UK here, I'm getting my asthma inhalers free now im in Scotland, but was like Β£7 in England. Ive had 2 operations and about a week of ward-care, all "free".
We're also being told over and over and over again that the NHS is not fit for purpose and needs to be scrapped and privatised completely. Its baffling.
Yep
Australia ain't perfect, but it's close
Yup. Same with the ndis. Iβve probably cost the govt millions over the last few decades. Between the ndis and medicare, I shudder to think how much Iβve cost them. But Iβm soooooo thankful for both of those services.
In what western country would you pay less than $1000 annually for healthcare?
They didn't pay less than $1000 for healthcare. They paid $1000 in addition to their insurance. In developed countries you pay for your healthcare and then you don't pay for it again when you actually use it.
In developed civilized countries, you pay according to your ability to pay, because it's not a business: it's a common service, we don't want anyone to go without.
You are correct. I should have included the normal payments in the total but my spouse pays that so I don't know what it is.
Australia
New Zealand
The UK
That is something I can't conceive of and I'm not alone.
Big numbers are sometimes big for no reason and elimantiong middlemen makes it go down.
Edit: I'm sorry you went through whatever it was regardless.
If you knew the details it might not be as crazy as it sounds... probably not a million but many thousands I'm sure.
Yeah it was pretty rough. Most difficult experience of my life. Even family members said for them it was also their most difficult experience.
I'm sure it was awful and I don't mean to demimish that in any way. But again, fundamentally no matter the details it's not something I can truly fathom. No one of any status in my country would accrue millions in medical debt.
I'm Canadian, our healthcare is flawed in many ways and only looks good when compared to the states'. But even ours, with medications, eyes, dentistry, etc. being excluded from free healthcare, that's ludicrous.
Again, not to invalidate what you've been through, but to reiterate: it didn't all have to be that way.
Sorry, this is a sensitive subject and don't mean to get intro it this much. I just want you and others to know this isn't natural or even common
Well presumably everyone in Canada has good insurance.
But regardless of whether you pay out of pocket or not someone is still paying the cost when people need expensive medical care. Hopefully yours is more efficient than ours but time, expertise, hospital beds, supplies... these things are not cheap.
Oh boy.
No.
The biggest grocery stores (oligopolies) are notorious for not giving employees 40h/wk specifically so they don't need to include health benefits. And that's just one example.
Edit: nearly half of. Canadians are living paycheque-to-paycheque
Oh I thought you had universal healthcare. It's still tied to employment?
Nope, dental, eyes, and prescriptions, etc. are excluded π€·ββοΈ
Edit: which is admittedly still better than south of the border, but weak compared to east of the Atlantic
The point your missing is you shouldn't have to pay anything.
Wow, you really DO have abnormally good insurance, to only pay a grand in a year.
For anybody else confused by this because you live in a civilized country, let me translate: The standard offering from employers nowadays is called a high deductible health plan. The deductible is the amount you have to pay* for healthcare before your insurance pays anything, and it is typically several thousand dollars.
(* There are a few preventive services that are 100% covered, so if you have no health issues whatsoever you can still get a yearly checkup and a flu shot without paying extra)
In comparison:
German statutory health insurance (GKV) in 2026 totals around 21% of gross salary (14.6% base + ~2.9% average Zusatzbeitrag) plus 3.6% Pflegeversicherung β combined employer and employee. For a β¬4,000/month salary, thatβs roughly β¬840/month total; at the income cap of β¬5,812.50, the full combined cost reaches about β¬1,220/month. Employee and employer each cover roughly half.
I think the cheapest combination would be state owned hospitals and health centers. The state owns the land, pays the staff and buys equipment and medication in huge quantities, which may result in cheaper prices. If not, they could also start producing their own base medication.
A profit oriented health sector is not a good idea. It only gives you minimum care combined with high costs.
No fucking way the real cost is $1M unless you had an organ transplant. And that's still considering US prices which are inflated.
Me too. My wife had cancer.
Damn sorry. Hope things turned out OK.
So far they have for me but it's sort of an ongoing thing still...