And How Was Your Day?

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From the comments: “Burning Man was founded on principles of self-reliance, self-expression and decommodification. Money largely isn’t exchanged during the event, and organizers rely on participants to build and deconstruct the city each year in an effort to leave no lasting effect on the ecologically sensitive area.”

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  2. Swampy salt marsh smell might be better than the smell of 100,000 dirty fake hippies.

    How much rain did they get? 1cm?

  3. I believe they call it Burning Man due to the number of Doctors visits where the Dr. asks. What is your problem. Patient replies. My p*nis Dr, it’s burning man.

    2. Yeah … but those hippies were YOUNG and FREE!!! These hippies are ollllld … and overweight … not photo worthy

      1. Not all of them. There is a lot of upper-middle-class nekkidness at Burning Man.Wouldn’t surprise me if one or both of Obama’s (alleged) kids are lost out there in the mud.

  5. These were the silly idiots who got blockaded in by a gang of climate change freaks just a few days ago. I suppose they are grateful that the Native Police broke the blockade up by driving a truck through it. Too bad they didn’t turn a few of the blockading protesters into roadkill.

    But then, this is the cult of the Wicker Man. They should be used to the supposed salubrious effects of human sacrifice by now.

  6. Wow we have become fragile. A minor rain storm yields a state of emergency.

    Could it be that states of emergency means money flows? Nah, don’t be rediculous.

    1. It is in fact a catastrophe. Since it rained, the silt of the lake bed has turned to what is essentially pottery clay. You can’t walk on it, you can’t drive on it. Nothing with wheels or tracks can drive in it. I wouldn’t want to bet even a hovercraft could cross it.

      Because clay is sticky. It builds up. If it started sticking to the skirt of a hovercraft it could easily end up mired.

      This is the remote desert. Roughly 5k to the nearest paved road. About 20k to the nearest “town”. No vehicles. No water to drink. 75,000 people. Most of them dumb kids who came for a party.

      I’ve been sorely tempted to say something snide, but this has the potential to be a true humanitarian disaster. Hope it stops raining.

      4. Sounds like EXTREME weather, eh? Those road-blocking Stop Oil Now freakazoids were right? Doncha think? If only all those campers weren’t towed by carbon spewing diesel trucks … there’d have never been a tropical storm hit CA

  7. Wait… what?!? A National Emergency for a highly localized event involving 73,000 people?

    Does the Transportation Secretary know about this?

    I didn’t see where there were any deaths. If they are delayed getting out after the 3-day run of the festival. I’m sure some water and grub can be delivered by either helicopter or Door Dash. They can wait it out until it’s dry enough to skedaddle.

    It is a bit of a mess to deal with, though. Everyone will make it out OK, I’m sure. Just some of them will miss their return flights.

    1. I’m sure that they have PLENTY of pills to survive …

      The green organizers (who apparently can not read weather forecasts), and taxpayers, will have a big clean-up. Summer rain is not new to that part of the country.

  8. “National Emergency!” My, my, they sure think they themselves are really important.

    “Burning Man was founded on principles of self-reliance, self-expression and decommodification. Money largely isn’t exchanged during the event, and organizers rely on participants to build and deconstruct the city each year in an effort to leave no lasting effect on the ecologically sensitive area.”

    Sounds like their vaunted self reliance leaves something to be desired. More rain is expected Sunday too. Will those self reliant individualists ask the Governor and the National Guard to rescue them tomorrow?

    1. Spent many a May24 weekend in cold wet tent. Fortunately we usually had a keg of beer to keep us occupied. Good times, bad times.

    1. In the valley of hippie cannibals I can’t see vegan population lasting long gnawing the scant mineral depleted meat off of other vegans.

  13. Is it like stepping over the dead bodies on Everest yet?
    These people have chainsaw motor blenders, tons of money and drugs for a week of pretending they’re Hunter S Thompson at the Superbowl without a deadline.
    Good luck to them.

    My guess is they’ll be fine but there will be a lot of muddy weird stuff abandoned.

  15. “…leave no lasting effect on the ecologically sensitive area.”

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    Hilarious!!! The littering is so bad at this event that they have resorted to placing dumpsters along the highway heading back to Reno because so many people were bagging up their garbage and tossing it in the desert on the way home (most don’t even bother to bag it). Additionally, Reno and Lake Tahoe ultimately end up with the accumulated filth and are forced to add it to their landfill.

    You can pull up all sorts of photos from the event that shows, as usual, the lefty earth worshipers are some of the most disgusting, careless, and filthy people on the planet when it comes to picking up their own trash.

  16. Sanitation questionable, or maybe I’m thinking personal hygiene.

    Regardless, shitty, watery quagmires means dysentery, hepatitis, if anyone has cholera…

    Gonna be a rush on hospitals when the pocket sized emergency is over.

  17. Some People’s Kids.
    How exactly does anyone at Burning Man have standing to declare a “National Emergency?”

    “Mom, Dad, come get me!”

  18. “decommodification”

    They don’t use proper bathroom facilities?………..Commode = toilet……

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