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

existentialmemes

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.

  • agent_nycto@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 days ago

    At what point is consumption fine to do? If we’re to reduce the consumption and harm, what level is it acceptable to have some consumption and harm for what we want out of life?

    Weirdly enough, I think the things you enjoy you’ll find are acceptable to compromise over and the things you don’t like are unacceptable. You have a bias as well.

    So when the tone of this post, others comments and your comments leave no room for compromise, and people start whipping out the straw men and exaggerations, you’ll have to excuse me if I don’t take your “we can do better without doing perfect” as something said in good faith.

    • starelfsc2@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      The line is arbitrary but “have things that sound like explosions for 2 weeks that might happen at any point for 24 hours a day that causes massive stress to animals and some people” should be crossing that line. Same for the animal industry and supporting AI when the data centers are causing huge issues.

      I think almost anyone would agree if there was a set firework show, that lasted 30 minutes to an hour, and no other explosive fireworks outside the show (sparklers etc are totally fine), you would have 1/100th the people complaining. I am not personally massively affected by fireworks but I don’t think that’s an unfair compromise at all.