Burning Man takes on a whole new meaning...

[Paul Evans]

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/...ge-environment

[Barrygoss]

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/...ge-environment

And the merkin cops went all merkin on them - the video of the ranger ploughing through the protestors is available and is not comfortable viewing

"One officer told the protesters to disband within 30 seconds or risk arrest, commanding them to “get off the fucking road”. In those 30 seconds, a second ranger plowed through the blockade, his vehicle smashing the trailer and protest signs as activists still chained to it narrowly missed getting hit. “We’re non-violent, we have no weapons at all, we’re environmental protesters,” shouted Collins, as the officer pulled out what appeared to be a firearm and aimed it at the activists after threatening: “I am going to take all of you out."


B

[notdeadyet]

And the merkin cops went all merkin on them - the video of the ranger ploughing through the protestors is available and is not comfortable viewing

"One officer told the protesters to disband within 30 seconds or risk arrest, commanding them to “get off the fucking road”. In those 30 seconds, a second ranger plowed through the blockade, his vehicle smashing the trailer and protest signs as activists still chained to it narrowly missed getting hit. “We’re non-violent, we have no weapons at all, we’re environmental protesters,” shouted Collins, as the officer pulled out what appeared to be a firearm and aimed it at the activists after threatening: “I am going to take all of you out."


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If you've ever had a run in with a ranger then this is entirely believable. They make the average UK copper seem elite. They have to be one of the most incompetent, jumped-up, badly trained law enforcement agencies in America.

[Paul Evans]

If you've ever had a run in with a ranger then this is entirely believable. They make the average UK copper seem elite. They have to be one of the most incompetent, jumped-up, badly trained law enforcement agencies in America.

Meanwhile in the UK................

Ice cream van charging customers £7 for 99 flake stormed by police

https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/27/ice-c...r-99-19403337/

[Paul Evans]

And the merkin cops went all merkin on them - the video of the ranger ploughing through the protestors is available and is not comfortable viewing

"One officer told the protesters to disband within 30 seconds or risk arrest, commanding them to “get off the fucking road”. In those 30 seconds, a second ranger plowed through the blockade, his vehicle smashing the trailer and protest signs as activists still chained to it narrowly missed getting hit. “We’re non-violent, we have no weapons at all, we’re environmental protesters,” shouted Collins, as the officer pulled out what appeared to be a firearm and aimed it at the activists after threatening: “I am going to take all of you out."


B

meh, average day on the Americana highways......

you ain't keeping no Silicon Valley Bro from his ketamine.......

people in glasshouses etc...



and bang up to date;

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-in-six-months

[Barrygoss]

meh, average day on the Americana highways......

you ain't keeping no Silicon Valley Bro from his ketamine.......

people in glasshouses etc...



and bang up to date;

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-in-six-months

I did like how they arrested and drove through the climate protestors who were blocking the road into burning man, now they’re being told to conserve food and water while the climate catastrophe rages around them… karma much 🤷😂

It’s like some microcosm of what’s coming

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[Paul Evans]

I did like how they arrested and drove through the climate protestors who were blocking the road into burning man, now they’re being told to conserve food and water while the climate catastrophe rages around them… karma much ����

It’s like some microcosm of what’s coming

B

From Burning man to Bog Man, those Silicon Valley Bro all flew out in their helicopter's

[notdeadyet]

I did like how they arrested and drove through the climate protestors who were blocking the road into burning man, now they’re being told to conserve food and water while the climate catastrophe rages around them… karma much ����

It’s like some microcosm of what’s coming

B

It really is a little microcosm of the real world. A hundred thousand very affluent people travelling to a place they don't need to be to consume resources they don't need to consume, pretending that a holiday is some great achievement and that they are saving the planet while everything falls apart around them. And then realising they have neither the resources or ability to cope when the world turns to shit and they realise they've left every bit of their survival to someone else. It's the West distilled into a cringey festival. If someone hadn't died I would have absolutely zero sympathy for their "plight".

Doesn't look like the tech bros are doing a great job of "adapting". Need to up their microdosing and do a bit more Wim Hof breathing maybe.

[barnaby_s]

A lot of the people that go to Burning Man aren't "tech bros" and are are artists, engineers and counter culture people (these are the original people that attended Burning Man before the tech bros started attending and making it about spending lots of money to do it in some level of luxury etc.

[Paul Evans]

A lot of the people that go to Burning Man aren't "tech bros" and are are artists, engineers and counter culture people (these are the original people that attended Burning Man before the tech bros started attending and making it about spending lots of money to do it in some level of luxury etc.

When did you last rock up? 😃

https://www.wired.com/story/burning-...culture-clash/

Counter culture.... A lot could be done with that lot in no rules Scrabble......