OT: The News Thread

[MindzEye]

Seems like something we should have outgrown after the age of 8

 

[axlsalinger]

 

[axlsalinger]

 

[manny]

Some great cop talk in that video

“Uh, as a result the officer, uh, performed a traffic stop and, uh, addressed some traffic violations that were, um, occurring with that, uh, particular vehicle.”

 

[MindzEye]

Weird, you would figure that a sticky situation like this would have created more of a buzz.

 

[MindzEye]

 

[manny]

Sounds like a good time for a war on woke

 

[MindzEye]

If we complain about liberals enough, the insurance companies will come back

 

[MindzEye]

 

[lecoqsportif]

In my dystopian nightmare scenario, frequent mega disasters and new realities (food/water scarcity, new pathogens ?) of an altered climate will result in a new feudal, oligarchic order of the super wealthy living in highly fortified gated “safe areas” where they and their families live, work and play. Protection will be provided by state of the art Wagner-like private militias.

Everyone else will live in a climate vulnerable, ravaged even, Thunderdome scenarios with authoritarian overlords, police states, no personal security, contingent well-being and random/uncertain violence and climate catastrophes. Investing in or planning for your family’s future will be a fool’s errand.

Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled

Flannery Associates, the California group behind the $800m effort, launched a website showcasing renderings

www.theguardian.com

 

[axlsalinger]

 

[hockeylover]

Kinda embarassing but I... really thought Burning Man was a music festival for some reason.

 

[JackBurton]

Kinda embarassing but I... really thought Burning Man was a music festival for some reason.

Same.

 

[LeafGm]

My (uninformed) understanding of Burning Man is that it was initially a festival for smelly hippies to get together, dress up in funny outfits (or nothing at all) and do copious amounts of drugs in the desert while looking at art installations.

And that in recent years it’s been increasingly taken over by rich kids, social media influencers and celebrities who roll in with massive air conditioned RV’s and/or set up opulent private camps.

If it was still just mostly the original smelly hippies in attendance this year, they probably would have put up with all the mud far better.

 

[mbow30]

My (uninformed) understanding of Burning Man is that it was initially a festival for smelly hippies to get together, dress up in funny outfits (or nothing at all) and do copious amounts of drugs in the desert while looking at art installations.

And that in recent years it’s been increasingly taken over by rich kids, social media influencers and celebrities who roll in with massive air conditioned RV’s and/or set up opulent private camps.

If it was still just mostly the original smelly hippies in attendance this year, they probably would have put up with all the mud far better.

Yep just the fucking worst.

also I guess they learned the hard way that teslas aren’t designed for off roading.

 

[manny]

So maybe it is God judging them, in a way.

 

[CH1]

My (uninformed) understanding of Burning Man is that it was initially a festival for smelly hippies to get together, dress up in funny outfits (or nothing at all) and do copious amounts of drugs in the desert while looking at art installations.

And that in recent years it’s been increasingly taken over by rich kids, social media influencers and celebrities who roll in with massive air conditioned RV’s and/or set up opulent private camps.

If it was still just mostly the original smelly hippies in attendance this year, they probably would have put up with all the mud far better.

It was still kind of cool 15 years ago when I first heard of it via a good friend who attended....but since then it slowly got invaded by tech bros and girls trying to reclaim their street cred/artistic side with the promise of lots of drugs and sex

 

[zeke]

If it was still just mostly the original smelly hippies in attendance this year, they probably would have put up with all the mud far better.

would have turned it into one of the most epic burning mans ever.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

Murica. The Trump base.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

My (uninformed) understanding of Burning Man is that it was initially a festival for smelly hippies to get together, dress up in funny outfits (or nothing at all) and do copious amounts of drugs in the desert while looking at art installations.

And that in recent years it’s been increasingly taken over by rich kids, social media influencers and celebrities who roll in with massive air conditioned RV’s and/or set up opulent private camps.

If it was still just mostly the original smelly hippies in attendance this year, they probably would have put up with all the mud far better.

All such festivals inevitably become this. Look at the two Woodstock reboots, especially the last one which devolved into Lord of the Flies by the end of the first day. And these reboots are also inevitably just corporate wank-fests. It's just an opportunity for grifters to make money. I doubt that the people who went to the original Woodstock would have wanted to go if it was The Woodstock Festival, brought to you by Mercedes-Benz. But someone who was a hippie at the original is probably the same boomer scumbag who now drives a Benz and would totally be promoting Woodstock 2023 if they thought there was money to be made off it.