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I recently moved to the St. Louis area for a software job at Boeing. I'm actually in a nice quiet neighborhood in St. Charles right under the flight path for planes landing at Lambert Field. The fireworks last night were insane. All around me folks were setting off commercial grade fireworks bursting hundreds of feet in the air. The house was shaking, my dogs were freaking out, one of them had a seizure. The air was…
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Can you cite that please? Theres more going on with a lot pf the Gaza/Israel stuff (that im not unsympathetic to) that can blur the lines somewhat
https://www.the-berliner.com/oyoun-cultural-centre-to-close-...
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> Going so far to regulate what you ought to say or to watch. Native born German. Calling BS on that crap. I recommend reading up on "freedom from" vs. "freedom to". Explains quite a lot of differences between the European tradition of ensuring people are "free from" an potentially oppressive state vs. the US tradition of "freedom to". In each "freedom of speech" index I know, Germany fares better than the US, or Bri…
In Germany you will get arrested if you publicly talk about Gaza and Israel
https://theintercept.com/2026/05/11/real-estate-expo-israel-...
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Can you cite that please? Theres more going on with a lot pf the Gaza/Israel stuff (that im not unsympathetic to) that can blur the lines somewhat
https://www.the-berliner.com/oyoun-cultural-centre-to-close-...
Am I the only one who thinks the risks are worth the reward? People are celebrating, kids are having fun. Yes a few people blow their hands off, but are we going to remove everything, one by one, in the name of safety?
"Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make" was supposed to be a comically evil statement in Shrek
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Not just dogs; more than a few humans don’t cope with loud noises of various kinds.
Good thing we didn’t have too many of those people during the revolution or we would still be part of Great Britain.
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https://www.the-berliner.com/oyoun-cultural-centre-to-close-...
This article does not say someone was arrested because of a public talk about Gaza and Israel. A local government has cut funding to a local org because of a disagreement. Nobody was arrested.
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"Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make" was supposed to be a comically evil statement in Shrek
I hope the writer that penned that is fantastically rich!
Flying into London on November 5 a decade or so ago I was struck by how similar things looked to WW2 bombing run photographs, except it was in colour. A moment of pause. (The Australian War memorial has a museum with the nose of a Lancaster bomber, and they run footage inside it (or a mock up, they have a lot of stuff) projected onto the floor and forward view taken by bombing observation film crews during the raids…
Times have changed in UK. We all grew up doing our own bonfires and fireworks, but now it's mostly organised large displays at public parks and other venues.
Sadly after a conversation with the school's insurance company, we haven't been able to run one since due to the cost of cover.
Given the incident widely reported incident here in the UK, some years ago, I think people are more aware of the risk that running one of these events entails: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_M5_motorway_crash#:~:text...