The Burning Man Fiasco Is the Ultimate Tech Culture Clash
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Climate change, protests, tech, elitism, (untrue) Ebola rumors—everything converged when heavy rains left thousands of people stranded in the Nevada desert.

The Burning Man fiasco is the ultimate tech culture clash. Climate change, protests, tech, elitism, (untrue) Ebola rumors — everything converged when heavy rains left thousands of people stranded i…::Climate change, protests, tech, elitism, (untrue) Ebola rumors—everything converged when heavy rains left thousands of people stranded in the Nevada desert.

  • MNByChoice@midwest.socialEnglish
    446·
    1 year ago

    A bit off topic, but I appreciate the commentary within the title. More false claims need an (untrue) note in the title.

  • MrNesser@lemmy.worldEnglish
    196·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Null User Object@programming.devEnglish
      183·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • books@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • alienanimals@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    🎵 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

  • ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1833·
    1 year ago

    Glad to see this sub being as shitty and utterly irrelevant to tech the same as the OG. What a garbage and worthless article.

    But hey, it’s just reddit that has a bot problem 🤷‍♂️

  • Astroturfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1757·
    1 year ago

    It is a great example of liberal hypocrisy. They set up a city in the middle of a desert. Drive SUVs and trucks out to it. Create a bunch of trash, and burn some shit.

    Just like how every rich liberal douche says they want homeless shelters/outreach and affordable housing, but it cant be anywhere near their property.