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I grew up with fireworks being one of the highlights of the year at Diwali but I’m guessing the age of fireworks is coming to a close. It’s pretty but definitely not worth the social costs in 2021.
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I think I’ve personally gone mildly apocalyptic-eyed since the pandemic, but people watching fireworks on tv seem to be getting an old-fashioned enjoyment out of them that I’m now incapable of
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I’m tempted to read this as doomsday dark euphoria, but that would just be projection. But definitely some obliviousness to state of world.
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I’d totally trade fireworks technology for telescope-dark urban skies. Kinda feasible… sodium vapor low light. Infrared vision for driverless cars…
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Normal indoors is under 10. Currently with a filter and fan going it’s still bad indoors. My cat has also not been happy all evening. I guess this is an issue on which I’ve done a proper 180 as an adult. As recently as a decade ago, I happily went to fireworks shows.
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I’m currently doing the Zoe continuous glucose monitoring thing and getting really sensitized to measures that make hidden externalities visible. Blood glucose, air quality. What gets measured does get managed.
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It’s been shocking to see for myself how refined flour and added sugar are basically glucose firework bombs in blood. It’s given me anti-junk-food religion.
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No need to preach these things. Just put glucose and air quality sensors on every phone. Magically changes minds like it did mine.
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One of the best ways to pwn free market forces is to make a new measure of a hitherto unpriced externality ubiquitous. If you dislike evil capitalists the best revenge is to use the power of the market against them.
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Morning after. Indoor pm2.5 4. Outdoor: 34 (~= burning food a bit in kitchen but not too much) AQI from AirNow (last 2h average I think): 165. Visibility: poor.
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