G: Burning Man attendees roadblocked by climate activists: ‘They have a privileged mindset’

[tshile]

For whatever reason a lot of people keep talking about an Ebola outbreak 😂 

 

my moneys in overly gross unsanitary conditions caused by intense flooding with tons of people camping and using outhouses 

[The 12th Commandment]

1 hour ago, Destino said:

...

 

I have spent no time in the desert, and I would never have even thought of this. Being ready for mud in the desert feels as incongruous to me as preparing for snow in the tropics. This serves as a good example of “you don’t know, what you don’t know.” 

 

 

Like just about every other bit of knowledge I have, it didn't come the easy way.  Over forty years I've gotten stuck (high centered) driving around in the desert probably 5 or 6 times. Only one time was in deep sand, and I was able to dig myself out of that one.  The rest mud after rains.  Once my old landcruiser was so badly stuck it took two trucks attached by chains to pop it out. Once, to my everlasting shame, I had to call a tow truck.

[CobraCommander]

7 minutes ago, The 12th Commandment said:

Like just about every other bit of knowledge I have, it didn't come the easy way.  Over forty years I've gotten stuck (high centered) driving around in the desert probably 5 or 6 times. Only one time was in deep sand, and I was able to dig myself out of that one.  The rest mud after rains.  Once my old landcruiser was so badly stuck it took two trucks attached by chains to pop it out. Once, to my everlasting shame, I had to call a tow truck.

This you? 
 

[The 12th Commandment]

6 minutes ago, CobraCommander said:

This you? 
 

...after some shrooms out there,  thinking I'm a pharaoh and ****.

Edited September 3, 2023 by The 12th Commandment

[Cooked Crack]

 

[China]

Comedian Chris Rock says toilets at Burning Man can’t be cleaned or emptied

 

With access in and out of Burning Man closed for the time being, a new dire problem has arisen: No one can clean or empty the portable toilets. Among others, comedian Chris Rock, who appeared to be at the festival, pointed out the problem. The issue will likely only get worse with upwards of 70,000 people currently sheltering-in-place. 

 

“From what I understand, because of the flooding, the port-o-potties reportedly can’t be emptied. And because the gates are closed, people can’t get in to fill generators or deliver supplies,” wrote Rock in an Instagram story that has since disappeared but was circulating around social media. 

 

The Guardian also noted the “weather-related disruptions have caused suspension of the cleaning and emptying of thousands of portable toilets.” 

 

A video post on TikTok showed user bryfreeman216’s experience treading through ankle deep mud to make it to a port-a-potty, only to find more mud on the inside. 

 

 

Click on the link for the full article

[China]

Burning Man crowd stuck in muddy venue, but there's 'no cause for panic,' CEO says

 

The CEO of Burning Man said Sunday that the situation at the venue in Nevada's Black Rock Desert was under control and far from alarming.

 

“There is no cause for panic," Marian Goodell told NBC News.

 

Burning Man’s estimated 70,000-plus attendees were isolated at the venue known as Black Rock City as rain returned Sunday and as closed roads, muddy campgrounds and one reported death darkened the day.

 

Goodell, the CEO of the nonprofit Burning Man Project, which organizes the annual event, suggested the intense attention on the event during the holiday weekend was needless, characterizing it as "such a fuss."

 

Organizers have so far turned down help from the Nevada National Guard, Goodell said.

 

“We’ve made it really clear that we do not see this as an evacuation situation,” she said. “The water is drying up.”

 

Even with more rain falling, Goodell said she expected the annual burning of a 40-foot wooden man, which usually takes place on the last Saturday night of the party, would most likely happen at 9:30 p.m. Sunday.

 

Click on the link for the full article

 

[skinsmarydu]

I just clicked on this thread for the first time. 

I had no idea what the **** Burning Man was, thought it was a guy on fire.  (Seriously, I'm at home on a holiday weekend watching US Open tennis, Law&Order, and Blue Bloods marathons.) 

 

 

[Cooked Crack]

 

[China]

Sen. Mike Lee says Burning Man flooding is ‘God’s judgment’

 

Sen. Mike Lee suggested the flooding that has trapped thousands of Burning Man attendees in the Nevada desert was “God’s judgment” for engaging in lewd and sexually charged events at the festival.

 

Burning Man attendees were told to shelter in place Saturday evening because heavy rain, lasting for several hours, made it virtually impossible for vehicles to travel in and out. Some attendees, including celebrity DJ Diplo and comedian Chris Rock, walked to safety despite warnings. Thousands of people remained stranded as of Monday. At least one person has died.

In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Lee linked to a provocative story headlined, “Wildest Burning Man events - orgasm hypnosis, whippings and naked oil wrestling.”

 

 

Click on the link for more

 

 

[balki1867]

On 9/2/2023 at 8:35 PM, TradeTheBeal! said:

<Burning man versus Michigan>

 

Whoever made this meme clearly hasn't watched Michigan football for the past 50 years.  A supposedly "easy" win out west is ripe for a Michigan letdown.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Climate activists are ****ing insufferable.  While I don't dismiss their message (I'm aware of global warming, hail storms, whatever the **** else), how they go about it is obnoxious as ****.

 

On 9/3/2023 at 9:57 AM, The 12th Commandment said:

People wonder why I have mud tires on my truck when I live in the desert.   

 

I've always wondered this about you, too.  Thanks for taking the time to clear it up  

 

What a time we're in when Chris Rock is a defacto correspondent for the 2020s version of a ****ty overheated Woodstock.

[The 12th Commandment]

47 minutes ago, Spaceman Spiff said:

...

 

 

I've always wondered this about you, too.  Thanks for taking the time to clear it up  

 

...

  here's to mud in your eye!

 

Edited September 5, 2023 by The 12th Commandment

[TradeTheBeal!]

Doofus.

 

 

[Die Hard]

I remember 20 years ago I had a regular massage therapist that I would see from time to time. She was a bit of a hippie… liked to talk about Burning Man and highly recommended I go. I had no idea what she was talking about so I looked it up. 
 

And then I wondered what would make her think I would’ve enjoyed it. Sure, I went to a dozen raves in university… but this is a whole other level.

 

I think it’s fascinating, for sure. But it’s insanity…. 

[Cooked Crack]

 

[TradeTheBeal!]

[Koolblue13]

 

[Dr. Do Itch Big]

The older I get the more idgaf about stuff like this. 

[DCSaints_fan]

On 9/4/2023 at 1:14 PM, skinsmarydu said:

I just clicked on this thread for the first time. 

I had no idea what the **** Burning Man was, thought it was a guy on fire.  (Seriously, I'm at home on a holiday weekend watching US Open tennis, Law&Order, and Blue Bloods marathons.) 

 

 

I didn't know what it was until I moved west.   

 

People in the Bay Area loved it.  Because everyone either went to the festival, or freed up the area from the crazies

[Jabbyrwock]

7 minutes ago, DCSaints_fan said:

 

I didn't know what it was until I moved west.   

 

People in the Bay Area loved it.  Because everyone either went to the festival, or freed up the area from the crazies

 

In the past I would have said Burning Man was a festival for "artists", where artist was loosely defined as a group of people that think shoving a crystal up ur ass is an acceptable alternative to "western medicine" and/or bathing.

 

Now days its basically a rich socialite/influencer/wanabee/hasbeen draw.  Think Fyre Festival with more ass crystals.

[EmirOfShmo]

How the ultra-wealthy infiltrated anti-capitalist Burning Man

 

Burning Man, the desert confab that descended into chaos over the weekend, isn’t quite the scrappy, free-spirited revelry that it once was.

For many watching the disarray of Burning Man from afar, the rain and mud that left 70,000 people stranded quickly became a symbol of the festival’s departure from its roots.

Or, more simply: how the billionaires ruined Burning Man.

The festival began as a small gathering in 1986 on a San Francisco beach, and eventually grew into a gritty countercultural community of “Burners” who eschew commercialism within their makeshift city, erected annually in a desiccated lake bed known as the playa.

There’s no money trading hands on the playa — that’s core to to the community’s “decommodification” ethos. But there is, increasingly, a lot of money on the playa.

Going to Burning Man is, in some elite circles, akin to having climbed Everest or taken ayahuasca on a meditation retreat — a spiritually transformative experience, undertaken with a considerable safety net of privilege.

Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person, has been a regular at Burning Man, telling Recode in 2014 that “if you haven’t been, you just don’t get it.” Mark Zuckerberg flew in for a day in 2012 to serve up grilled cheese sandwiches and even set up his own tent, according to his friend and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. In 2018, shortly after she was indicted on federal fraud charges, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes retreated to the desert and burned an effigy for her failed startup, she told the New York Times.

One of the 10 pillars of Burning Man is “radical self-reliance,” and in that spirit most revelers haul their own water and shelf-stable food in for the week, and “rely on their inner resources” for survival, according to the organization’s website.

For the one-percenters in attendance, however, self-reliance can be outsourced.

The ultra-wealthy have been known to fly in personal chefs for the week, and pay as much as $50,000 to camp in luxurious tents, as the New York Post reported in 2019. A Business Insider reporter, similarly, wrote about so-called fancy camps around the playa that came with chandeliers, party rooms and outdoor showers.

“Burning Man is the perfect example of how many rich White people recreationally manufacture hardship because they are immune from it systematically,” wrote one user on X, formerly Twitter, this weekend.

 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ultra-wealthy-infiltrated-anti-capitalist-190205735.html

 

[Captain Wiggles]

[Spaceman Spiff]

1 hour ago, EmirOfShmo said:

 

The ultra-wealthy have been known to fly in personal chefs for the week, and pay as much as $50,000 to camp in luxurious tents, as the New York Post reported in 2019. A Business Insider reporter, similarly, wrote about so-called fancy camps around the playa that came with chandeliers, party rooms and outdoor showers.

“Burning Man is the perfect example of how many rich White people recreationally manufacture hardship because they are immune from it systematically,” wrote one user on X, formerly Twitter, this weekend.

 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ultra-wealthy-infiltrated-anti-capitalist-190205735.html

 

 

Jealousy is a stinky cologne.  

[tshile]

The idea of a festival starting out as being about one thing, becoming popular, and changing over time as it grows, is pretty normal/typical