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[-] gerikson@awful.systems 47 points 1 year ago

TIL Burning Man has a fucking airport. USA, man.

[-] m@blat.at 52 points 1 year ago

@gerikson It’s all about experiencing the beauty of nature and appreciating the fragility of our planet by driving thousands of miles in air-conditioned gas guzzlers before burning even more fossil fuels and a small rainforest of wood you get there. But it’s okay because you have to take your trash home with you.

[-] Blapoo@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

Shit, I spent 5 hours this morning experiencing the beauty of nature. It's right outside.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ah, but did you approach it with a startup mindset

[-] Blapoo@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago
[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

sorry reminds me of this particular billboard ad that ran in Sydney. Just couldn’t make my brain interpret the “how did I get here?” in the positive sense they intended. Even the look on the girls face… it’s like sadness in her eyes. Anyway, there you go gym billboard photo of girl at burning man with tagline “how did I get here?”

[-] acausal_masochist@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

Same as it ever was.

[-] Posadist_Paladin@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

bet they wish the protestors had made them turn around now lmao

[-] saucerwizard@awful.systems 18 points 1 year ago
[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

They probably want to have the toilets septic tanks drained once a day, so uh... good luck with the sewage trucks I guess

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

I guess we're going to find out just how committed they are to taking the trash when they leave.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

They don't at the best of times.

I think the main problem people will face is overflowing septic tanks and then 70k people looking for places to poop that aren't the increasingly threatening portapotties. Like, day one you're not going to be able tell if that's mud or poop on the floor, and there's definitely going to be urine mixed in even if it is mud. If you were storing your food or water on the ground, um... Good luck

Trash works a little differently, I think. Food trash people are comfortable with dealing with, mostly. I think a lot of the kitchy hippy crap that gets waterlogged will get discarded, as well as soiled clothing. People generally don't want to take plastic bags with poop in them in their cars.

But also some people take the trash thing way less seriously than others, and if you do take all your own trash how willing are you to take another camp's worth?

(Our local one has a clean up volunteer group that goes a few weeks after so that the land can be used as a barley field during other parts of the year, the fact that that's necessary says that there's a decent amount of clean up to do)

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 15 points 1 year ago

Hope the VCs are ready for a wave of survivalist tech product pitches

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Fyre Island II: The Enshittenning

[-] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Nothing makes my heart quiver quite like tech bros, mud and a sea of overflowing porta-potties.

[-] raktheundead@fedia.io 10 points 1 year ago
[-] saucerwizard@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

What if the shrimp in the playa are flesh eating?

[-] kuna@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago

It's become a prawnblem.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

They've been playing the long game. It's all been building up to this.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think this belongs over in TechTakes rather than SneerClub; it doesn't seem TREACLES-focused.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

D'oh you're right. I will do better in the future.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

advanced supermudtelligence

[-] Evinceo@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

brown goo scenario

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

Is it possible to move posts if you mod both?

[-] self@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

it seems like it isn’t possible, unfortunately. it looks like the lemmy devs are finally starting to work on more mod tooling, so we may see some improvement here soon; if not, it can go on my queue as I get back into modifying our version of lemmy

[-] maol@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

Pity bout ya! I hope your private plane sinks in the mud

[-] buh@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

the woodstock 99 sequel nobody expected

[-] Zrc@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago
[-] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

Apparently now "a death is being investigated", which is a form of passive voice I have not yet encountered.

Also, "shelter in place" is one of those examples of American English that I really don't get. I suppose it's something from school shootings? Or hurricanes?

[-] B_Whitewind@regenerate.social -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@gerikson Police state is coeming. Shelter in place citizen and await the civility drones.

[-] Shitgenstein1@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

In Texas, it certainly does not mean the police state is coming. If anything, maybe a come of hicks with badges to stand around for 15 minutes, but usually just means "stay were you are because we don't know wtf to do and aren't funded to do anything anyway."

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