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Editor's note: this is a post about American Independence Day celebrations

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Alright, I'm going to launch explosives around your house. For several hours. Yes it is dangerous and terrible for wildlife and the environment. And yes your pets will get sick from eating the debris and you will feel terrorized inside your own home.

No you can't opt out of it. Everyone is doing it and frankly it's weird that you don't want to.

No you can't be the one launching the explosives you need a license for that. You can however launch these marginally smaller ones though. Yeah just whenever you want. 2am sounds great.

So anyway, fireworks were a mistake and it's never too early to start reminding you of that.

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[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 points 16 minutes ago

14th of July is the day in France for fireworks, there's the fireworks set by the city for 30min and after that everyone goes back home, dont have people setting them off all night 🀷

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 2 points 43 minutes ago

Heh, I live in a racially mixed neighborhood where the Mexicans help the rest of the us find the "good stuff". I have been in an actual war zone but my neighborhood is at WW1 level amounts of black powder and badly made improvised explosives with copper, magnesium, and titanium sprinkled in for seasoning. Last year there were teenagers with eight inch mortars which I cannot convey how insanely illegal those are.

Kind of amazing we haven't set the neighborhood or even a single house on fire now that I think about it.

[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

I like fireworks. I don't like when people continue to set them off at odd hours weeks after the 4th.

I think complaining about fireworks on a day of celebration is some grumpy old NIMBY shit.

[–] zane@infosec.pub 1 points 37 minutes ago

My argument is what the fuck are you celebrating? Did you get enough of your freedums this year?

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

I agree. There's a time and place. It's the 4th, and maybe new years

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz -1 points 33 minutes ago (1 children)

Celebrating america's freedom by triggering all of our traumatized veterans with inescapable rapid-fire explosions for three weeks straight!

Who the fuck even thought of this?

[–] qaeta@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 minutes ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

It makes more sense when you realize that Americans don't actually give a shit about their veterans, they just like virtue signalling like they do. The VA would be in much better shape if they actually cared.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Thank you. Fuck fireworks and the apes who enjoy them.

That aside, what do you even have to celebrate? Fuck you if you're proud of any of this.

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I’ve never thought about the country when lighting off fireworks. It is just the time of year to do it.

All of the points OP put down to not light off fireworks I completely agree with. Maybe β€œapes” is the correct description because that boom boom sparkle really fires off the seratonin in me.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

Once we actually get rid of slavery and stop lynching black people I'll set off a firework or two

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I just want some bottle rockets, maybe a couple of small crackers, couple of fountains and some blacksnakes.

The big stuff isn't all that amazing if you're not right under it. Watching a show from a mile away is FAR less than then screwing around with a handfull of fairly safe rockets in your backyard

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Snakes? Wouldn't the rockets and fire crackers stress them out? Ive never heard involving snakes in a celebration, except maybe in some religious ceremonies from some niche christian groups, but even there I think they use venomous ones.

[–] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

(Not sure if sarcasm or ernest) Blacksnakes are a small pellet that grows into a long tube when set of fire.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Oh, I think ive heard of like chemistry demonstrations that do a trick like that but ive never heard of it as like a fireworks thing. I've seen enough people refer to black ratsnakes as just "black snake" that that was where my brain immediately jumped for some reason, like someone taking their pet snakes out to a homemade fireworks show for some reason, which would seem inadvisable.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

Bottle rockets, firecrackers, fountains, snakes, rad as hell. Love em. Mortar shells that release a concussive blast that makes the dishes in my cabinet rattle? I wish harm

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 hours ago

I swear, I thought they were talking about internal combustion engines until the last line.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

It's like if a dog was a human.

[–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 15 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I love fireworks shows done responsibly, our local show is on a beach away from most of civilization and wild life.

That said I think a drone show is cooler, better for the environment, and would love to see densely populated towns replace them with drones.

[–] ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

On a beach... Away from wild life? What?

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

No you don't understand, they simply moved outside of the environment.

[–] Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

A wave? In the OCEAN? Chance in a million.

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[–] Lenggo@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

I generally like them, except those really loud ones that barely look like anything. After I got my dog who is terrified of them I'd happily never seen fireworks again.

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 7 points 9 hours ago

As I was reading this I thought it was going to be about Gaza.

If you take into account how much it freaks out animals to the point of heart attacks it might as wel be to them.

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