Chapotraphouse

burning billions of crackers

you know damn well how I read this initially

I wanted context and now I want you to have it too

Hearing that they're burning crackers but not in a good way

And this is how it is after a mild crackdown. I remember about five or so years ago I was on the rooftop with a friend on a late Diwali night and the air was so thick with smoke we couldn't see 10 metres ahead. This was entirely because of firecrackers.

We got some fuljharis (sparkles) for our toddler nephew this year. The quantity of smoke just one of them emits is baffling. Of course you first need to know to look for it.

Hinduism is easily the most destructive religion on Earth right now

idk not to get theological and not my area but I think the first two main Abrahamic religions are doing worse atm, not to downplay the BJP/RSS weaponization of it tho

Are all fireworks called "firecrackers" in India?

My local community has a lot of Indian immigrants, and let me tell you, Diwali celebrations get crazy outside of India too. And the city won't do anything about it here, either. Oh, sure, unsanctioned fireworks are illegal, and the cultural center are allowed to set them off on their property but it's not allowed in private backyards or city parks, but none of these people care. They light them up anyway, and the city won't do anything about it. They post signs all autumn reminding people that fireworks are illegal without proper permits, and then do zero enforcement when there's inevitably fireworks all over the neighborhood.

I don't have a problem with people practicing their religion and celebrating a holiday. What I have a problem with, is polluting the air and causing fire hazards. Not to mention loud noise late into the evening, which is just plain disruptive to the public peace and disrespectful to your neighbours.

A million hands must explode, it's the only way

(I saw a video detailing the post Diwali surgeons work in India, apparently they have some of the best hand reconstruction surgeons in the world thanks to Diwali and bootleg fireworks)

If they fix it they'll just get blamed for global warming the same way China was when they fixed their smog

Here in Germany we also have every idiot doing their own fireworks at New Year's. Granted there's some regulations as to what fireworks are allowed and we don't have anywhere near the population density of India, but it's still obnoxious pollution for extremely mediocre fireworks. Luckily more and more people here are in favor of banning this practice. Extremely rare case of Germans learning.

I already hate fireworks because they terrify my little cat like i don't know what I would do if this shit were going on here. I would probably be fighting my fucking neighbors

as a resident of the imperial core, is this the kind of cracker you mean? i think they're more of a thing in bri*ain than the states, just wanted to confirm i have the correct mental picture here.

That's awful. I remember when forest fires were rampant and my city was in the red (for the AQI index), it was difficult to breathe without a KN95/KF94 mask. At that point I'm pretty sure it'll be difficult to breathe even with a mask.

it’s 8pm and I haven’t heard anything near me thank god. Last year the Diwali celebrations were madness, shit sounded like bombs going off just over the hill. Multiple dogs had seizures and I think at least one died. A few of the explosions shook my house.

I don’t want this to be a Diwali hate comment, July 4 also sucks, but July 4 doesn’t sound like someone’s firebombing the next neighborhood over and the explosions are much closer. No idea on the dog fatality rate.

Edit: just talked to my mom, supposedly Diwali celebrations were held over the weekend. I didn’t hear anything so they must’ve used like regular fireworks. Not sure what the hell they were using last year but it really did sound like my neighbors were being firebombed

Hinduism is easily the most destructive religion on Earth right now

Really? I mean Christianity merged with economics to give rise to the protestant ethic And Islam has been used as an effective tool by the imperial powers to sow discord in oil rich Arab regions as well as justify the mass murder of Muslims (seems ironic but the biggest victims of any religious beliefs are the religious people themselves) including the Palestinians. Isis bad therefore all Muslims bad therefore Zionist entity can do genocide. Literally how it works in the minds of white liberals although that seems to be changing with the next generation

I want to add this in. But I don't know where Judaism fits in, as a religion. Because Zionism is an utterly deranged and disgusting ideology and elements of it do have religious origins. Easily the most intensely evil ideology in the world. But also it's destruction is restricted to the Arab world and by the fact that there just aren't that many Jewish Zionists in the world. Id lump the damage caused by Christian Zionists under Christianity.

Fireworks were also quite nonstop in where I live, a more suburb-ish part of the city, but this is par for the course for the 3 major public holidays celebrated here, Eid Al-Fitr, Chinese New Year and Diwali.

The noise is the most obvious and annoying part.

Usually the fireworks aren’t in such intensity that the pollution will carpet larger than the local house, and it clears up relatively fast. AQI never really goes above 200 from what I know, so reaching 1000 is a bit insane.

burning billions of crackers in a single night.

Yet people won't stop burning crackers.

waow

That seems good

4th century BCE: "I asked not for caste, but for water"

21st century CE: "I asked not for caste, but for breathable air"