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300 million lbs of fireworks and 2.7 billion dollars gone in a cloud of smoke.

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[–] gearheart@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's like asking a texan to get rid of their monster truck. Sure they live with their parents and never use the truck for work. But it's just not gonna happen buddy.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I live in a city that has criminalized all fireworks, including pop-its. We're talking arrest and jail time are on the table just for transporting them in your car through city limits (I'm sure this violates the Commerce Clause).

However, drugs are legal. I love their priorities.

Oh, and cutting down or trimming trees on your property is illegal without a permit. My neighbor was hit by a $10,000 fine because the street tree died and they didn't pull a permit for it.

[–] gearheart@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Talk about taking it to an extreme. It's almost like the whole city is managed by an HOA.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

we got rid of smoking and arguably that was sexy and cool

[–] gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Who got rid of it, and when??

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

In the US it's down from 45% of the population, to 15%, and then it used to be that 60% of those smokers smoked a pack or more a day, now 68% smoke less than a pack a day, with only 1% smoking more than a single pack (smoking exactly an entire pack in 1 day remains around 30% of smokers)