Burning Man

are there self-driving cars there? Honestly, that would be hilarious.

Basically, a friend of mine had a handful of free tickets and a free vehicle pass ... he gave away/sold the tickets but still had the vehicle pass ... someone joked that he could give it to one of those self-driving cars and it could have a fun vacation!

I have a couple friends who have been trying to have their wedding in this amazing outdoor location, and rain washed the road out so they had to cancel .... for the third time.

So they decided last minute to go to Burning Man instead

i guess compared to weddings, Burning Man is fairly inexpensive

lol

rumours are that there’s an Ebola outbreak but what we do know is that a fan helped Diplo and Chris Rock leave quarantine

When you go to Burning Man for fun in the desert but it rains six inches and floods and you think you're just going to drive out of the mud because you have a Jeep Wrangler.#BurningMan #BurningMan2023 pic.twitter.com/8MJ12wUYjF

— 🌈 Tess T. Eccles-Brown, PhD (@TTEcclesBrown) September 3, 2023

Incredible way to find out my therapist is at Burning Man pic.twitter.com/69ann50Ni9

— Catie Stewart (@catrionastew) September 3, 2023

cool pic.twitter.com/1sXpKmvVXJ

— andrew (@intellegint) September 2, 2023

All vehicle traffic within the encampment has been halted, including servicing for the thousands of portable toilets that make the event possible.

I feel like this gives them all the opportunity for some real Mad Max action, like the hardcore burners fantasize about.

They can set up an alternative society and never leave (until the food runs out anyway)

If things go far enough they won't run out of food until they run out of people, if you see what I mean.

I feel like this gives them all the opportunity for some real Mad Max action, like the hardcore burners fantasize about.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, September 3, 2023 7:08 AM (two hours ago)

you know that's how it used to be back in the 90s right?

like they have an actual Thunderdome

But this time it's for real — water scarcity, dwindling supplies. Time for Immortan Joe!

twitter joke re an ebola breakout has broken out into the conspiracy sphere and theyre lovin it

IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT FEMA HAS BEEN SENT IN TO SHUT DOWN BURNING MAN FESTIVAL! 🚨🚨🚨

There are rumors that people are getting SUPER SICK from some mysterious virus that is spreading “boils, vomiting, coughing up coagulated blood” 😳

FEMA has supposedly now locked down the… pic.twitter.com/WP6nR2Ouyf

— The Patriot Voice (@TPV_John) September 3, 2023

that wrangler upthread is cooked lol rip

rip electric sun 20

Wrangler upthread is not actually a recent pic unfortunately

it’s all fun and games until your conspiracy theorist mother calls you to make sure you’re not at Burning Man because of the ebola lockdown 😭 😂

— 621 (@meat) September 3, 2023

i think that it's still all fun and games tbh

pretty wild to witness conspiracists taking a lil joke amongst a handful of people and run with it

all the replies like "figured something like this would happen" lol

rebranding it as eBola and looking for some VC sweetness

lol

Isn't Ebola a kind of fever? You're not supposed to take the event name this literally.

oh people have taken it literally to try and self-immolate so ...

I simply would not pay money to get a burning arsehole in a de facto concentration camp - already got plenty of that!

I feel like this gives them all the opportunity for some real Mad Max action, like the hardcore burners fantasize about.

lol now is the time when I start to see all the hardcore burners post "actually we had backup sanitation/food/water, and we weren't gonna leave until Tuesday anyway"

portapotties were serviced today apparently, which was the main concern

W.H. official: President Biden has been briefed on the situation at the Burning Man festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) September 3, 2023

nice of them to let him know

potentially very funny conversation with an old man who is the president

Biden thinks “burning, man” is a punchline of a joke about a stag party

"Is this like Woodstock or one of those 'Crazy Clown Gang' festivals?"

"No sir. Woodstock had Jimi Hendrix while Juggalos bring their own shovels."

Joe Biden has sent 100 billion dollars to Ukraine and NOTHING to Burning Man.

— James (@GravitysRa1nbow) September 3, 2023

He sent Hunter... probably.

you know that's how it used to be back in the 90s right?

I went in 1992. Population 600 and it was free. I had been mixed up with LA Cacophony for several years, still had my pickup truck and most importantly: experience with desert camping since I was a kid. Burning Man then was mostly SF Cacophony folks, their cabaret acts, a couple dozen from LA Cacophony and about a half-dozen "art cars" from somewhere that roamed the playa at any given time. I brought my telescope, a boombox with all my Spacemen 3 tapes, and my own drugs. Good night for the Andromeda Galaxy and Saturn - I hung out on the tailgate of my truck while random weirdos came by to look through the scope. I tossed some of my remaining college undergrad notes into the Man and split as soon as it went up. That was the only time I went. I couldn't deal with the non-stop 24 hour a day drum circle.

Neal Katyal, a law professor at Georgetown University and former acting solicitor general in the Obama administration, said that he and several others hiked six miles to Gerlach, the nearest town.

Mr. Katyal and his group filled their backpacks with the essentials: “flashlights, water, extra socks — some of us like me had to bring our computers,” he said. They put plastic bags on their bare feet, socks over the top of them, and then put their boots or shoes on to “avoid being soaked,” he said.

“The hike was quite hard,” Mr. Katyal said, adding that the mud was“extremely sticky and heavy” and some people in the group almost fell. He expressed concern for those still looking to depart. “I think it is going to be very hard for people to leave for some days, but I think so many of the folks there have such a good spirit, dancing and making the most of it,” he said.

some people in the group almost fell

Article idea: “It used to be art weirdos and now it’s tech lords and Beltway creatures—Is Burning Man the new Bohemian Grove?”

I have a friend who is a law professor at Georgetown, I have to ask him if he knows this guy

katyal is infamous for successfully defending nestles use of child slavery before the supreme court

frequent MSNBC talking head, pretty full of himself

I went in 1992. Population 600

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, September 4, 2023 12:47 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

thats crazy it was so small i remember hearing about it around then in massachusetts

Mr Veg saw one of the early ones on Baker Beach SF in the late 80’s - he and his friends had gone to the beach to drop acid & there was a bunch of art weirdos burning a huge effigy on the beach so they hung out and watched

they’re all going to be fine, and the lesson they’ll learn is how great they are.

i'm a bit worried. the extra time in the desert with drugs might make these geniuses too disruptive next year.