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Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!
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.
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 and Happiness related!
Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities…
Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty
Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes
Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness
Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield
The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works
Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I 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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Like 30 years ago banks gave interest rates upwards of 3%, now you have to be a part of an exclusive club to get more than 0.5%
I got 5% on my ISA twenty years ago, and it really did feel like getting free money. Now my savings are depreciating so quickly I feel like I'd be better off spending it all. Not that it's very much.
I get 15% currently from nu bank in mexico, and the mexican peso is appreciating vs the us dollar, so it really is a great deal.
That sounds cool, but given that bank interest creates currency directly that means if it continues at that rate then eventually peso value will start to see a sharp decline.
Yeah, but it's not that direct a process, and while there's still interest in the currency we can support a lot more of it. High interests have also meant less spending and lower inflation.
Really the currency losing value is something that happens always so just getting anything in return is a win, though it sucks for people holding money without a good investment.
More like 40. I had a checking/savings account that my grandmother set up for me when I was born. It paid .5% interest on a checking account, and the savings acciunt paid 2.5%. They stopped giving those rates sometime in the 90s. Same bank charged me an "inactivity fee" in the mid 00s to 0 out the accounts and closed them.
1993 was 30 years ago
Those accounts had disappeared by 93. I was 13 then, and didn't know about my other checking account, cause my grandma didn't think I needed any money till I left for college. I went around to every bank and ended up setting up my "first" checking account in 93, cause I started working on a tobacco farm for video game money, and needed a way to cash my check without fees. None of the banks were offering interest on checking accounts, and the best interest rate I could find at the time on savings was 1.75%