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Burning Man, tech bros' favorite party, is in jeopardy because of Tropical Storm Hilary

https://www.businessinsider.com/burning-man-festival-flooding-closure-challenges-tropical-storm-hilary-2023-8

Tech bros and influencers may have wait to set up camp after Burning Man's grounds flood from tropical storm Hilary.

Burning Man, tech bros' favorite party, is in jeopardy because of Tropical Storm Hilary

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.

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roguetrick

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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.

Ageroth

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You practically need tech bro money to afford a ticket though don't you? The article says tickets are up to $2750, and while I know they go for less if you get lucky in the lottery or something like that they're still like 800-1000$ just to get in. Who can afford that just as the entry fee, let alone what ever you need to survive the desert for a week?

roguetrick

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Burners I know pretty much live to go to burns. Every week they get together to build stuff for the burn. 3k isn't much really if that's what your yearly vacation is and you're a paper pusher.

GhostlyPixel

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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.

roguetrick

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Of that I have no doubt, there will always be assholes.

fleece

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As a burner, I find calling it a "tech bro party" pretty reductive.

I do my regional burn every year for like $600 including ticket costs which basically go straight to paying for a venue. Ticket costs for the big burn can range massively, but it's based on a pay-what-you-can structure, with tickets going to theme camps first and the rest being lottery-ed off. Please don't let salty media trick you into hating these people.

Most people have no idea how much work is put into building things just for other people. We erect an entire city by hand for free so people can come enjoy it and have wild experiences. Everyone always talks big game about wanting more art and less corpo shit, yet will absolutely dogpile burning man, one of the largest art festivals with no corpo shit and no ads or anyone trying to sell you something.

Kolanaki

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I always just call it a hippy festival.

There are many kinds of hippies in my mind; not just the stereotypical "flower children" from the 60's. The people at Burning Man are the modern hippies. And I love them.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever

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None of that argues it is not a party that is predominantly attended by tech bros and company.

newthrowaway20

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Climate change rains on rich people's parade.

Anticorp

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It's not all rich people. I have a friend who has been several times and he's just a middle class ironworker.

Fredselfish

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Thoughts and prays who gives a fuck if a bunch of docuhebags can't get together.

kmkz_ninja

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I, too, arbitrarily hate things.

DLSchichtl

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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.

autotldr

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This is the best summary I could come up with:

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.

Burning Man Project, the nonprofit organization that runs the gathering, has requested that both event staff and attendees hold off from entering the festival grounds until at least Wednesday at noon.

"We have 1,500 staff onsite waiting for the surface to dry, and we are asking all early arrival workers and campers to delay their travel," the organization said in a statement to Insider.

Burners, as attendees are called, shared photos of the flooded grounds on Monday morning, and the Burning Man traffic account posted travel warnings.

While the festival doesn't kick off until Sunday August 27, attendees typically travel to the desert venue a week prior to begin building their camps, but weather conditions have left encampments water-logged, as seen in images on Reddit.

The event, for which tickets cost up to $2,750, has attracted the likes of Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg.

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TimeSquirrel

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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?

ripcord

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That sounds kind of...neat.

Also, how could it be "stolen" if they pulled it from somewhere explicitly intended for sharing? License restrictions, or...?

Anticorp

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Burning Man is an amazing event if you're into that sort of thing. Some people spend years building stuff for the celebration. I know a guy who spent over a year modifying a golf cart to look like the time machine from the HG Wells book. All of his work was done in wrought iron. Then he spent the week driving around in his time machine, while smoking the biggest attached bong you've ever seen.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever

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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.

TimeSquirrel

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It's just a joke, I'm just ragging on the "maker" type people that go to these.

Voyajer

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Why

Ubermeisters

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Lmao @ stolen github