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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.

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[–] miraclerandy@lemmy.world 62 points 2 years ago (3 children)

lol at, "the organizers said on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter." I love how this is journalism is handling this switch.

[–] AnonTwo@kbin.social 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Even Twitter can't avoid it. Anytime an email comes to my mailbox it's "X, Formally known as twitter"

[–] bookmeat@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

Heavy vibes from Ƭ̵̬̊, the artist formerly known as Prince.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Wonder if they're just casually owning it with pride.

[–] astraeus@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

They’ve all been doing this. Probably because they anticipate it will revert back to Twitter at some point.

[–] theodewere@kbin.social 57 points 2 years ago

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..

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 47 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I used to experience mild FOMO reading about burning man and now it just feels like I’ve passed an annual intelligence test with apathy.

[–] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago

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)

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It was cool 25 years ago when I first went, but it was lame 10 years ago, when I last went. Hollywood, tech bros and instagram posers ruined it.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

uhhhh, seems bad

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've always wondered who, this bunch of rich yuppie fucks, think the man being burnt is supposed to represent?

[–] theodewere@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

i think it might be their dignity

[–] tym@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

hunger games in 3...2....1....

[–] Swim@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The regular folk bring their own water in.. this is only for the rich fucks taking a vacation there.

[–] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

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.