Thankfully, my other dog doesnāt mind them. Sheāll sometimes jump in shock when they happen, but it never stops her enjoyment of a walk or anything. My boy, on the other hand, just canāt handle it at all. It really sucks because it either means having to walk at crazy times or leaving him at home to walk just her. Thatās not fair to him.
Weāve tried everything. The only thing that really works is medication which we give him the week around New Years Eve, but the vets donāt recommend it long-term.
Officially, itās just a general tax that can go towards anything, but it was originally to pay municipal workers to pick up the poop that irresponsible dog owners didnāt pick up.
Our municipality provides play pens and free poop bags, so thereās actually some value there, but if I canāt take my dogs out, theyāre not using the services or pooping where a worker has to clean it up. And theyāre sure not using it to pay enforcement officers to stop the illegal fireworks from happening, so I donāt think itās worth paying anymore.
Editing to add that I pick up their poop with my own poop bags because I just realised how that paragraph sounded. Hahaha.
im mixed on fireworks i absolutely hate the exploding kind, the ones people throw during holidays (thankfully here only dec and jan are firework months)
but i do love the ones that launch into the sky at night. theyāre pretty and i like thoseā¦
I want to do more links roundups (I only have the one at the beginning).
Iāll try a tagging system in my notes app for #links for a week and check in with what collected under the tag through through the festivities this week.
I had heard of the cursed wood, but forgot about it. Iām glad the story is getting its way around.
Native broadband is something Iāve been following, as [was it On The Media?] ran that story about people buying up fm radio for internet and cell towers and that eating into Indigeous bandwitch treaties.
Power and Light Press, a food truck retrofitted for letterprint, came through our town and showed the kids how to make little prints. (Chunky metal pieces!)
I havenāt read much of 404 mediaās stuff, but I loved their coverage of Lavender and have wanted to dove in more.
I made a fun little rant! I donāt do enough of these. Have some anger!
It fizzles out pretty quick. Iām usually a quiet fire, so springing to life like this was fun for me.
/!\ Heads! /!\ I call people out on taking shot, without watching where theyāre aiming. The post pooh-poos kicking people who self-medicate their loneliness with generative text, equates the behavior to incarcerating drug users.
sixword version: āyou fail to show, every dayā
Why do people play with fireworks for 4 months of the year over there???
Also side question, are you referring to actual fireworks orā¦ I dunno how theyāre called in english, Napatzim? Those small thumb-sized packets that you throw at the floor and make a loud POP sound?
The Dutch are WEIRD about fireworks. They will literally be so frugal that they use a single teabag for 2+ cups of tea for most of the year only to spend thousands on fireworks for New Years Eve. And because that much is being spent, some people hoard them and start letting them off in October instead of waiting for the seven hours theyāve legally been given to do it.
And yep, actual fireworks! The problematic ones are illegal ones bought in from neighbouring countries, mostly. Essentially designed to only be noisy rather than pretty. They sound like actual bombs being dropped. Not just cute little snaps and pops.
They also have another ātraditionā here called carbidschieten (carbide shooting), where they light calcium carbide in a milk can and use it to shoot footballs into the air. The point seems to be to make the loudest boom.
I will absolutely never understand it. Especially as the Netherlands was heavily bombed during WWII.
(Edit: I donāt think anyone can really understand how bad it is without living here or visiting during the winter months. I feel like everyone thinks Iām exaggerating, but it really is that bad!)
Power and Light is so cool! Itās such a weird niche and Iām excited youāve heard of them! I do like 404 Mediaās coverage of most things - theyāre all former Vice/Motherboard journalists who went out on their own.
I hate fireworks too, especially for how they affect animals.