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A bit off topic, but I appreciate the commentary within the title. More false claims need an (untrue) note in the title.
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.
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.
Alarmist title. Burners gunna burn. Media likes to make people think thousands of people were stranded, at risk, and that this is a major fiasco.
This was a bit of rain. BLM shut gate again.
The big deal will be the clean up. Watch for the moop map, and hope it’s not all red. If it’s red, BLM won’t grant a permit for next year.
MOOP is Matter Out Of Place. Each part of burning man is cleaned again and again, and the final report is the moop map. Green = good. red = bad.
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.
Don’t feel bad. They had a great time and have lots of stories to tell.
Going to burning man is never easy. You’re survival camping in the desert. Burners are ready for a lot of things.
this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2023
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