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.

      • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        58 minutes ago

        I’ve been having to deal with fireworks since Friday and it won’t stop until after next weekend with the most absurd taking place Friday and Saturday this week. I don’t bitch but it does kind of suck I can’t just sit out on my front porch in the evenings/night with my dog throwing him his ball for a couple weeks every summer. He seems accustomed to the smaller stuff but I’m not going to risk him running off so our routine just has to shift a little but it’s too hot to be doing that with him before it gets late right now. I guess I feel like it would be entitled behavior to expect so many other people to behave differently just because it’s not something I really care about anymore. I used to think they were cool as a kid.

      • TheSporkBomber@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        In my area it’s multiple days before and after most holidays, at times ranging from 6pm to 2am. Hell, this past year someone set off fireworks at midnight Christmas eve.

      • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
        30·
        14 hours ago

        But I don’t want to be away from people? I just don’t want bombs going off outside my house, which is generally considered normal 364 days out of the year

        • Crankley@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          7 hours ago

          I think you have the crux of it, it’s normal 364 days of the year. Lots of folks like fireworks and they mostly limit it to one day annually.

          Honestly at this point in my life when I think about fireworks I mostly just have a hard time getting over how expensive they are. But also, they are noisy and sometimes I get dragged out in crap weather to not enjoy them. I’m not a huge fan.

          I also was also a kid once though and remember a time when they were the coolest shit on earth.

          I can put up with the rare day and let others have their fun 🤷 just my take.

          • Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            4 hours ago

            If I punch you in the face once a year for my own amusement, you wouldn’t be saying “it’s ok because he doesn’t punches me in the face 364 days a year”

              • solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                1·
                52 minutes ago

                I suspect the point they were trying to make is that “only one day a year” doesn’t automatically excuse behavior. They used a rhetorical device to help illustrate that point by highlighting a scenario that is clearly not acceptable even one day a year.

          • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            2·
            2 hours ago

            Living around other people also involves a certain level of respect for them and their presence. This goes both ways. If you want to lit up bombs you are free to go out deep in the woods for it (…well, except you’ll also freak put the poor wildlife there)