The Burning Man fiasco is the ultimate tech culture clash. Climate change, protests, tech, elitism, (untrue) Ebola rumors — everything converged when heavy rains left thousands of people stranded i…::Climate change, protests, tech, elitism, (untrue) Ebola rumors—everything converged when heavy rains left thousands of people stranded in the Nevada desert.
A bit off topic, but I appreciate the commentary within the title. More false claims need an (untrue) note in the title.
Just media making bigger deal out of things than they are for clicks
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From hearing various first hand accounts, it sounds like alot of hardcore burners embraced the rain & most others dipped out as soon as they could (many while the exit was technically closed).
I bet the energy was kinda fun and wild as long as you has the right gear and attitude
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I saw this whole thing as wannabe environmental cool kids panicked when water fell from the sky.
I’m wondering how many of them deny climate change.
From my experience (been to BM a few times, not recently though), most Burners are left of center and would likely accept anthropogenic climate change as real. Likely for political reasons rather than scientific reasons, though, as many of those same Burners would also happily accept that crystals/magnets/heavily diluted water can cure disease and that the positions of nearby planets relative to distant stars from the perspective of Earth combined with how many times the moon had orbited Earth since January 1st on your birthday can vaguely predict what’s going to happen to you in the next week or so.
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Ebola was always a fucking stupid ass red flag and made me question any data coming out of bm.
Remember when a nurse helping with ebola in Africa came back to the US when she was infected? It was a fucking national news story for weeks. Like wall to wall coverage. I feel like she had military escorts and all that.
Ebola just doesn’t show up in the middle of the Nevada desert.
There should be a website that collects all the false claims journalists publish and list it under their names/faces. Maybe if more of them were shamed for lying and poor journalism they would stop doing it.
They do. It’s run by Rupert Murdoch.
🎵 Beautiful disaster
🎵 Flyin’ down the street again
🎵 I tried to keep up
🎵 You wore me out and left me ate up
🎵 Now I wish you all the luck
🎵 You’re a butterfly in the wind without a care
🎵 A pretty train crash to me and I can’t care
🎵I do, I don’t, whatever
I feel bad but they should have not went in the first place.
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Glad to see this sub being as shitty and utterly irrelevant to tech the same as the OG. What a garbage and worthless article.
But hey, it’s just reddit that has a bot problem 🤷♂️
Lol based on your username and comments you just wanna be on Reddit. So go be on Reddit
Nah, I’d love for it to succeed. I just don’t think it will.
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Egh, I’d love for this place to be successful. I just already see it failing.
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It is a great example of liberal hypocrisy. They set up a city in the middle of a desert. Drive SUVs and trucks out to it. Create a bunch of trash, and burn some shit.
Just like how every rich liberal douche says they want homeless shelters/outreach and affordable housing, but it cant be anywhere near their property.
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“Burning Man is lib shit” is probably the most obviously wrong take since “I can do anything I want with classified documents”
Leave it to brain dead basement chuds to be totally unaware of the world around them, I guess
Love how you just assume I’m a right-winger and conflate me to Trump because I don’t like a wasteful desert party attended by bay area folks who are overwhelmingly liberal. But good job being the most toxic person in the brain dead pile on groupthink mob. Really original comment here.
Libertarian. Not liberal.
They are explicitly out in the middle of nowhere because of freedumb.
You’re conflating liberals with nimbys and capitalists.
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Lmao every liberal I know thinks burning man is a joke and did not feel sorry for them. You’re thinking of capitalists or general rich non political types
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Theyre closet racists too.
