Tens of thousands of people attending the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert are being told to conserve food, water and fuel as they shelter in place in the Black Rock Desert after a heavy rainstorm pummeled the area, festival organizers said.
Tens of thousands of people attending the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert are being told to conserve food, water and fuel as they shelter in place in the Black Rock Desert after a heavy rainstorm pummeled the area, festival organizers said.
The gate and airport into Black Rock City, a remote area in northwest Nevada, remain closed and no driving is allowed into or out of the city except for emergency vehicles, the organizers said on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
“Do not travel to Black Rock City! Access to the city is closed for the remainder of the event, and you will be turned around,” one statement read.
The city is expecting more showers and thunderstorms on Sunday before 5 p.m. local time, organizers said in a weather forecast update.
It feels like the most stupid rebrand ever. Since it isn’t a name but a random letter elon thinks is cool, it always requires some clarification in conversations, or even in text form because it might as well be a typo or something. If it ever takes root before the platform sinks into obscurity is a really open bet.
Rebranding to just a symbol always makes it difficult to actually get traction on. The artist formerly known as Prince experienced the same difficulty.
hang on, so Nature is trying to kill a bunch of people who went out in the desert to celebrate a Burning Man, and she's gonna do it with a rainstorm that might satirically cause them to die of thirst.. man somebody has a sense of humor or something..
...all of which was announced via social media, which implies that despite shortages of food and water the people there have constant access to the Internet. Cyberpunk is now. Unless a thunder from the thunderstorm fries a cell tower nearby of course.
I don’t need 80,000 people, weeks worth of planning, shit weather, a long boring drive, and 1000s of dollars in expenses to have fun doing drugs with my friends. The entire thing seems so inefficient and unpleasant in achieving its purpose.
And I’ve always found the art of burning man to be simply bad, no matter how impressive it is in scale.
That said, I want humans to celebrate and have fun; there’s worse things people can do.
I feel like burning man and other fests were not better, but at least cognitively different before they went corporate. /
Feels like the difference between clubs and raves (if the latter even still exist any longer)
I got stuck at a festival once the same way. We were stuck for 3 days. It was pretty fun. Everyone just piled all the food and booze in a pile and shared.