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Celebrate the fourth by blowing up a piece of it with fireworks

Nothing to celebrate anymore.

We used to hide in the basement with our pup and watch a movie. She could still hear the fireworks, but it seemed to take the edge off.

Current pup has gone deaf in his old age. Before then, he'd growl and bark at both thunder and fireworks. Now he just sleeps through it.

This is actually happening in my community and we're trying to get the guy to leave. He's a part of a PMC and they are doing drills and testing. The howitzer is very loud and disruptive. I could probably find the New York Times article on if if people are interested

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.

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?

I love how often they're being replaced by drone shows! If they fail, all the do is drop to the ground, not explode peoples hands off. I was at a fireworks show where the tube stand holding some fireworks fell flat and launched fireworks at the crowd, luckily they were on water, on a barge far enough away and it dropped downwards enough to just go into the water. I was in the trajectory with two small kids. I don't think I've been to another show since then.

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 🤷

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.

Y'all are why the right thinks the left is full of whining pussies.

The one thing that it's ok to blame China for.

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.

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.