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

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      20 days ago

      Exactly. Movies, the Internet, traveling.

      As a life form, the 4 key aspects of life are:

      1). Eat 2). Sleep 3). Defecate 4). Reproduce

      Literally everything else you do is irrelevant or secondary to the core mission of life.

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        20 days ago

        This is sort of where I get confused about people pissed at Taylor Swift for having a private jet. Like I totally understand that some of the trips have been shown to be unnecessary and I agree. But how many sports teams and equipment do we transport for greater carbon emissions to bring joy to a fraction as many people? Like think about an American football game, world cup game, Olympics, F1 race, Golf tournament… hell even Burning Man? I feel like it’s just low hanging fruit for her critics to stir up shit.