300 million lbs of fireworks and 2.7 billion dollars gone in a cloud of smoke.
Yes.
Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution?
Submitted 4 months ago by Grayox@lemmy.ml to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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JimSamtanko@lemm.ee 4 months ago
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
I’m not totally against fireworks. As others have mentioned, sometimes we do need to just have some fun and not worry about the consequences. But they should be done far from residential area, so that unwilling people (e.g. vets, children, or pets) aren’t disturbed. (Honestly though, I wish we didn’t have any vets with PTSD, that’s the worse problem. As long as we still have wars, I’d say let the people have some fun.)
yamanii@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No.
nifty@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think people should get to do them! I don’t enjoy them, but whatever. If we could make louder noises, flashes and colors with environmentally friendly fireworks, that’d be awesome. I think the noise, flash and color of fireworks is what other people enjoy, but we all suffer the poor air quality afterwards. So I just want something that will make other people get what they want out of fireworks while not damaging the air quality
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Hey, most of us drive about in small, fuel-efficient cars the whole year
Ban our fireworks once you ban your millions of tiny-penis trucks!
intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Oh yeah because you just know the people calling for ending fireworks because they’re “messy and loud, ick”, are the people driving around in big trucks.
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Oh yeah because you just know the people that enjoy them despite them being messy and loud are the ones running about in tiny-penis trucks
DBT@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Backyard fireworks, yes. Professionally done fireworks at a planned place and time, no.
Professionally done fireworks are usually pretty amazing and fun to watch. They usually happen right around 9pm and last 15-30 minutes.
Backyard fireworks in dense neighborhoods are pretty fucking lame. One mortar every 30 seconds is not the spectacle you think it is. And it typically goes on for hours in my neighborhood. It terrifies dogs and is completely unpredictable. Maybe if everyone agreed to light everything they had between 9 and 9:30 it would be more impressive and less annoying, but that’ll never happen because “muh freedom” or something lol
Godric@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nah friend, I spend time, bandwidth, electricity, etc., talking to strangers and morons on the internet, fireworks give me much more bang for my buck.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s not really pollution since the materials at the end are trace minerals necessary for biological processes. But the fire hazard is going to get them banned some day soon. Maybe they should move the 4th of July to February or March. You know, one of those wet months.
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
search perchlorate and fireworks, and you immediately get to know which country I’m from.
Stitch0815@feddit.org 4 months ago
That is just wrong. Even if it were all just relly cool stuff everything needs to be alive. You still should not breath it.
JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I agree and have felt this way for a long time, and is why I have not taken part in firework displays nor been interested in them for years.
It just seems like an excuse to pollute the air on a massive scale, beyond other issues. I would much rather see drone shows today than fireworks.
Tygr@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fireworks are a complete waste of other people’s money. Besides the regular fireworks show, I like watching people’s money go up in smoke. It’s fun!
JCreazy@midwest.social 4 months ago
I agree for a multitude of reasons but I much prefer the drone shows. They look much cooler.
Bob_Robertson_IX@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Careful, soon there will be Russians having their PTSD triggered by the sound of a drone.
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Yes, they should be replaced by drones or LED light shows
hoogic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
but the volcanoes do more damg tho
argoniantradwife@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Not only that, but they seriously freak me out. Not to mention everytime they go off, even on 'murica day, someone thinks it’s a gun. At least where Ive lived.
SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
If you have any kind of anxiety disorder, sensory hypersensitivity or heart issues, the sudden noise of fireworks will at least startle you. The constant barrage of noise that takes place in some places through some celebrations or through the year provoke people to develop even more serious health issues. Ah, but don’t you dare to suggest that the health of vulnerable people should take priority over some brief dumbfuck fun, or that there exist less harmful ways to celebrate, or that constant fireworks in places with certain population density means annoying a lot of people for the sake of very few, because then it turns out that you just “hate freedom”.
Aeri@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Honestly I just don’t care about them anymore, they are all basically visually the same, once I’ve seen one professional fireworks show it starts to feel like I’ve seen them all. It’s loud as fuck too, it hurts my ears more than it used to, I just stayed in yesterday.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 4 months ago
Nothing good about 'em!
Visstix@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Firework is usually used by assholes.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 4 months ago
Asceticism is a dead end.
Grayox@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
100% Thats why there is thr Middle Way.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 months ago
As a middle path I propose we let people buy fireworks on a free market. That way they’re there, but nobody is forced to set them off.
magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No
andxz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I agree completely. I could see an argument for one instance that is shown globally via screens or whatnot as each year passes, but other than that I completely agree with you.
sag@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Yep
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 months ago
A lot of birds with their heads blown open by fireworks happen around this forested neighborhood every 4th of July and New Years.
For freedom ?
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is only likely in areas where large numbers of birds are nesting or roosting.
From the first Google result I got, per “Dr. Kevin McGowan, senior course developer and instructor for The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Bird Academy”:
In the end, Kevin emphasizes that fireworks most often serve as a nuisance to birds, not a danger. “Unless you have a situation where there you have a bunch of sensitive birds in one place, then it seems unlikely that it’s going to be much of a disturbance,” he says.
Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah, it’s a silly tradition. But old habits die hard and traditions like this die even harder.
kandoh@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Yeah I don’t care for them. Had fun when I was a kid but that was before we all had computers in our pocket.
pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
here and there are fine, I think sometimes they have their place but I’m really not a fan. the noise bothers me and I hate that people shoot them off to celebrate the same veterans that suffer ptsd during firework shows. I hope some communities start to move to drone shows in the future. https://youtu.be/pZ-zJ0Vq0FU Much quieter and leaves way more room to switch it up year to year.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just the noise here. Dont see any pretty sky lights
Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
I dislike when they’re used to excess
Smoogs@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And noise pollution
Bring back the drones! They were way cooler.
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Wow. Much American. Literally only country that fireworks…
dutchkimble@lemy.lol 4 months ago
Try India, where fireworks are banned and they go off practically everyday
spookedintownsville@lemmy.world 4 months ago
But… muh freedum