It’s amazing how many people who are assholes because “that’s just how they are” manage to not be assholes to people with power over them.  

Here’s the thing: It’s true that this sort of toxic behaviour is par for the course in many industries. I’ve been working in one for almost two decades. And yet, I’ve always been treated respectfully when being given negative feedback.

The Lightsaber is a cool weapon, but they are played out. They should be looking to old samurai movies for inspiration like Lucas did with the originals. The duels are short and sweet. Not every duel needs to be “Epic”.

“You empty your bladder in public, and we’ll empty a mag in you"

I think they are busy trying to take back Lollapalooza over my dead Gen X body 

Hold on.

The same reason why Elon Musk wants to go to Mars and why those rich dicks built that stupid submarine.

This is gonna be hot take, but even beyond the obvious bullshit of arresting a 10 year old for this, maybe this shouldn’t be illegal at all?

I’m confused. The officer was going to let him off with a warning, but the lieutenant encouraged him to arrest the kid?

Somewhere out there, some Gen Zers have already started the next version of Burning Man and none of us will be hip enough to know it exists until it’s already jumped the shark.

I think what sours it for me is that even if you aren’t a rich tech bro, affording a ticket, travel, and supplies is still prohibitive and requires massive privilege. And then all my friends who can afford to go come back and tell me how refreshing it is that people are so generous and spontaneous and giving. And the…

For the conditions, he pushed through and got out of that stretch of playa. Now the ruts and deep tracks he just put in that exit lane is a hazard for a good portion of the 70,000 people that might have to use that section of ‘road’ that he just treated as his personal mud boggin’/tractor pull course. Self-reliance…

Oh a communist, huh? 

On the list of things Burning Man is about, environmental causes don’t even crack the top 10. This is because the top 10 things are all drugs, Instagram clout, sex, different drugs, and the various combination and permutations thereof.

Burning Man is pretty much the ultimate in douche-bro gatherings, based on the couple people I know who are devotees.

We love to take our 700+ horsepower $100k trucks to festivals about self-reliance and being kind to our earth mother or some such, don’t we folks. 

Especially the “However, many households sell their vehicle before they get there” line is dumb, because the vehicle doesn’t stop being environmentally friendly when it moves to its second or third owner. Who cares if it takes until the 2nd owner until it becomes a net positive for the environment if the first owner…

In the U.S., the typical non-luxury EV needs to log between 28,069 and 68,160 miles before netting any emissions benefits.

(despite Billet Labs providing the GPU on which the cooling block prototype was meant to work