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by dymk 2731 days ago
Why do we enjoy fireworks? Party poppers? Potato canons? Streamers? Tinsel on Christmas trees?

It's fun and pretty, and sanitation apparently has no problems cleaning it all up afterwards.

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This would come off as meaningful if you didn’t dismiss the environmental impact without even acknowledging its existence. I am not against celebrations like these so long as you can acknowledge their impact.... sanitation workers are not responsible for our actions, regardless of how content they are to clean the visible impacts from the streets.