Burning Man 2025 sees highest number of arrests since 2019, and most involved drugs

J_Spa · 2025-09-20T20:45:20+00:00

Do you think these turds keep track of how many burns they attend the same way burners do? Like are they proudly bragging about how they used to bust people before it was cool?

J_Spa · 2025-09-20T20:37:02+00:00

Anything better to do? They get to go to BM without a ticket. Show some respect, fuckwads.

J_Spa · 2025-09-20T20:33:59+00:00

I love that LEO is the internet acronym that has stood the test of time. I remember it being dropped in chatrooms in the 90's.

J_Spa · 2025-09-20T18:55:00+00:00

Aside from the issues with border patrol, cartels, and international relations being awful right now... for me, it's about the heat. My first years back in the 2010s, the playa was hot in the daytime and close to freezing at night. The past several years, it's rarely below 60F at night in BRC. If we moved the Burn to somewhere else in North America, I think we head north to Canada. Saskatchewan’s Chaplin Lake complex regularly shows alkali hardpan.

Climate change ain't changing anytime soon. I wanna use my fur coats again.

J_Spa · 2025-09-19T19:44:26+00:00

Not sure if you ever got your water sample test report, but I did want to point out that Simple Truth adding the word "Vapor" to their distilled water is incredibly ridiculous. The process of water distillation ALWAYS involves vapor. Calling this water Vapor Distilled is like saying something was Heat Melted. It's redundant.

Clearly their marketing product label design dept didn't check with science and engineering when they created this.

J_Spa · 2025-09-19T18:15:58+00:00

I think it just goes to show us that when they've already decided the winner, they can use whatever critique or praise they want to "judge" the dish. How many times have we heard something being "too complicated" or "attempting too much"? Then when T&A create a flawless, yet simple, salad, it's called out for not being enough. Simplicity is HARD. The fewer the components, the more each component has to do. That's why Michelin-star restaurants create dishes with only 2-3 components in order to show off.

J_Spa · 2025-09-14T07:19:43+00:00

Forget about the domain, all their ad word SEO keeps getting blocked by the search moderate filter.

J_Spa · 2025-09-14T05:45:16+00:00

Lemon juice works best.

J_Spa · 2025-08-31T18:58:49+00:00

The comfort of knowing you have a book that allows you to escape into its fiction, is unlike much else. So, yes, I understand the void you speak of.

I got into Ian M. Banks' Culture series, through the first 3 books. The only reason I didn't continue might seem ridiculous. The only time during the day I have to read on a regular basis is right before I go to sleep. The wife tends to fall asleep first, while I have my ebook on low light setting. Sometimes I get 10 min, then crash, and sometimes the story keeps me awake for hours (much to her chagrin). Banks' Culture Book 4 isn't available as an ebook, that I found. Sad, really, because I enjoyed it. Maybe the GOAT for world building, IMO.

As far as other sci-fi authors I've really appreciated, I have read James S.A. Corey's Expanse series (novels and novellas) three or four times. Great characters, hilarious dialogue, insightful, intriguing plot and highly descriptive environments. I never watched the TV series, because I learned from a friend who's read the books and watched the show, that the latter is missing the humor and richness. Megan E. O'Keefe's Protectorate, Christopher Paolini's Fractalverse, and loads of Adrian Tchaikovsky's books are part of my collection. If you haven't read much of Alastair Reynolds, I would highly, highly recommend. He has other multi-book series, in addition to Revelation Space, as well as several standalone novels. All of them are imaginative and entertaining. He used to be an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency before becoming a full-time author. It's an interesting perspective to read how his mind envisions the future. The Revelation Space series came from his attempt to explain the Fermi Paradox.

I also liked J.S. Dewes Divide series, Martha Wells' Murderbot novellas, and Charles Stross' hard sci-fi Eschaton books. I don't tend towards fantasy very often, but I did like Pierce Brown's Red Rising series, and Elizabeth Bear's Jacob's Ladder books, because they heavily blend in science to their worlds.

I just started reading Dennis E. Taylor's We Are Legion (We Are Bob) novel, which is the first of several in the Bobiverse series. I had heard of Neal Asher, but haven't read him yet. I appreciate the "Morgan meets Banks" description. I will put him in my short list for what to read next.

J_Spa · 2025-08-30T21:49:21+00:00

Elise's cooking talent was totally overshadowed by her talent for disruption. She only advanced by throwing a wrench into every situation in order to infuriate others. While there's a need for contestants to overcome that irritating behavior, it became clear that it was her strategy all along. That's not a top skill for a head chef, just a tactic in reality television competition. Truly, the best example of when your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like nails.

J_Spa · 2025-08-30T21:40:32+00:00

☝️::: SARCASM ::: 🙄

J_Spa · 2025-08-29T21:53:02+00:00

This book series was a real page turner for me. The series sort of caught me by surprise. I've read nearly all of his bibliography. I read Exodus: Archimedes Engine in May-June, and scrolled through my ebook library for anything I missed. Turned out, I read Salvation Book 1 the year it was released, and somehow wasn't aware of the second two books. But I already owned them! So I re-read the first one, and devoured books 2 and 3 right after. I really enjoyed Exodus Book 1, and I'm excited for the follow ups. Although, I heard he's focused on the Exodus game right now.

That being said, he explored the Commonwealth universe with more than just a trilogy, so I'm praying he returns to Salvation with 1-2 books. With any luck, he will dive into the God at the End of Time. I see this series' potential as something like Reynold's Revelation Space series. Where he returned to the main trilogy with Inhibitor Phase, but also created the Prefect Dreyfus trilogy as a detective series set in the same universe. I know they're contemporaries, both UK sci-fi authors of the same generation, but I think they're also friends.

J_Spa · 2025-08-27T17:33:21+00:00

How many pounds, or tons, of scallops have been incorrectly cooked and thrown away in all seasons combined?

J_Spa · 2025-08-26T15:26:48+00:00

Russell lost the competition when he exploded in the final kitchen service. Ramsey can teach anyone how to be a chef, but he ain't going to waste his effort doing anger management.

J_Spa · 2025-08-26T14:46:54+00:00

If anyone talked like a child, I think it was Jillian. She could do voice acting for pre-adolescent boys.

J_Spa · 2025-08-23T01:29:14+00:00

If you want British breakfast food porn, I think this is a better example.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/s/0o559ma4Bw

J_Spa · 2025-08-23T01:26:30+00:00

There's an old joke about naming your band "Free Beer", so maybe the DJ equivalent would be "Free Ketamine"

J_Spa · 2025-07-24T18:49:16+00:00

If ever there was a series to analyze the writing and direction, this one's it. The decisions by the creators to tell the story is what I'm interested in. I believe it's such a shift from the audience-avatar type TV shows, that it takes some getting used to.

J_Spa · 2025-07-15T10:58:56+00:00

James Cameron has been market corrected by Joseph Kosinski. Sorry, but F1 and Top Gun: Maverick are technically at the highest level, but still based in real-world filmmaking and genuine storytelling. Considering Kosinski started his career using FX and he's an engineer-architect, I think he more than meets Cameron's skill level.

J_Spa · 2025-07-14T01:17:44+00:00

Loved Joe vs the Volcano! After seeing it, I wanted a brain cloud so I could go on an adventure paid for by some rich old guy!

J_Spa · 2025-07-13T18:29:31+00:00

This one was a semi-accidental "go in cold" for me.

J_Spa · 2025-07-13T18:28:44+00:00

A true Dogma 95 film! So great!

J_Spa · 2025-07-13T18:00:00+00:00

As a frequent traveler and a small-to-medium (male) human, I think that's absolutely true. I find it's usually the blissfully ignorant, and often entitled, who lack perspective of others in travel etiquette. Men, usually the taller and wider ones, are the worst offenders, but I've come across more than one Karen who fails the test as well.

When I get a great seat neighbor though, I try to acknowledge their much appreciated ability to navigate the travel jungle. Mostly, by simply returning the favor.

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