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.
I had them go off 9 30 pm last night for no reason. Not too crazy but close to our house and the baby was already sleeping.
Yeah that’s the whole point of not wanting fireworks going off constantly and at wild times close to where you’re living. Like, recognizing they can be traumatic to soldiers with PTSD, disruptive to wildlife and pets (my dog, rip, hated them he used to get inside the couch on July 4th basically all day), and just overall a noise pollution nuisance is the whole “living in a society” thing.
Now, having said that, I fucking love me some good fireworks, blowing shit up and doing all that jazz but I don’t really do it much anymore because I live in suburbia.
It’s just that I value the other stuff I said above more than my own giddiness derived from lighting my money on fire in fun ways. I don’t mind so much when it’s one day a couple hours, hell I’ll blow off some stuff myself, but that’s not really what this post is complaining about.