Burning Man, the festival beloved by Silicon Valley’s elite, is at risk of quenched by Tropical Storm Hilary.
Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, where the event takes place each year, closed its gate due to flooding caused by the rains of Tropical Storm Hilary, The San Francisco Standard reported.
I wouldn’t call burners overlap with techbros a circle enough to celebrate this. I don’t particularly feel any kinship with burners, but I find them mostly harmless and largely climate conscious.
I have lived in northern Nevada for eight years, the amount of trash left in Black Rock and what they dump around Reno the days after Burning Man is over makes them seem a whole lot less climate conscious. I’ve seen piles of playa dust covered junk just dumped in streets and parking lots and RVs dumping directly into street gutters. Many Renoites will tell you similar stories, unfortunately.
I know it isn’t all of them, but there are plenty of them unfortunately.
Of that I have no doubt, there will always be assholes.
Climate change rains on rich people’s parade.
Thoughts and prays who gives a fuck if a bunch of docuhebags can’t get together.
I, too, arbitrarily hate things.
A smaller regional burn in Georgia, Alchemy, got hit by a hurricane in 2015. The fallout of which got the festival grounds shut down and new laws passed to prevent the burn from coming back. It has since moved campgrounds.
Aww, no 3D printed blinky LED steampunk hats with an Arduino hanging off the side with code and schematic stolen from somebody’s Github while riding a penny farthing?
That sounds kind of…neat.
Also, how could it be “stolen” if they pulled it from somewhere explicitly intended for sharing? License restrictions, or…?
It doesn’t violate the license but there is definitely a tendency for people to present work as their own and not correct people when they assume they are talking to the designer instead of just a user.
It’s just a joke, I’m just ragging on the “maker” type people that go to these.
Why
