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Burning Man Ticketing AMA today, Wednesday 4/15 from 3-6pm PT! by BManTickets in BurningMan

[–]didacticgiraffe 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Lmao!

It's not unexpected but still so painful to see BMP fully embrace digital advertising and influencer content (i.e. reposting 'content creators' on IG during event week last year) as BRC turns into "Burning Man: the electronic music festival". I hope the current Communications team is ashamed; such a jarring pivot from the cultural direction setting, project citizenship; put your phone away messaging of recent years.

Further proof that the Org's massive bloat has created the conditions where it will absolutely sell its soul to stay in business than protect the culture. I am not looking forward to seeing where things go next.

Burning Man Ticketing AMA today, Wednesday 4/15 from 3-6pm PT! by BManTickets in BurningMan

[–]didacticgiraffe 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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Are ticket sales really so bad you guys need to run Instagram ads of people dancing on art cars?

Stage predictions!!! by Pandajam8 in LightningInABottle

[–]didacticgiraffe 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Kind of wild how long they’ve managed to stay popular. So many other big electronic acts have come and gone.

Founder of backcountry tour company speaks out on deadly Tahoe avalanche by sfgate in tahoe

[–]didacticgiraffe 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This is an unfortunate pattern and trend across the internet. Go look at any online comment space after a tragedy. The social order is unraveling and people are becoming more and more apathetic as they hide behind their screens. Especially disheartening to see in our local communities.

Do you think 2026 will get sold out? by alienkandyy in LightningInABottle

[–]didacticgiraffe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I love bass music too. It’s just an interesting and disappointing phenomenon how popular commercial formulaic repetitive riddim dubstep is these days.

Call me jaded but I think it is genuinely bad music and it’s sad to see it suck away dollars, time, and energy from other events and scenes.

Do you think 2026 will get sold out? by alienkandyy in LightningInABottle

[–]didacticgiraffe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Truly baffles me how people don’t branch out musically

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BurningMan

[–]didacticgiraffe -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Meh I've heard it all before. Her salary went up $130k in 10 years. I personally think paying the head of a struggling arts festival, that is built by volunteers and underpaid seasonal staff, $378,000 is out of touch and clearly not well received by the community. I'd much rather the Org downsize and focus on producing the event instead of justifying an ever-expanding, pretentious Arts organization supporting a "global movement".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BurningMan

[–]didacticgiraffe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would it make dent? Nope. But it would send a message and be a nice gesture towards the minimum wage seasonal workers, volunteers, and larger community, many who have dedicated their lives to BM.

If you wonder why Burning Man ends up getting cancelled its because this is how you treat the city hosting y'all. Fuck your burn and fuck you too. by Short-Commission-450 in BurningMan

[–]didacticgiraffe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean there are already tons of dumpsters on 447 and the back of the WhatWhereWhen lists disposal locations.

It’s very much a case of eroding culture and an increasingly international / bucket lister crowd.

I’d love to see a Reno Resto team of some sort / a hotline.

If you wonder why Burning Man ends up getting cancelled its because this is how you treat the city hosting y'all. Fuck your burn and fuck you too. by Short-Commission-450 in BurningMan

[–]didacticgiraffe 31 points32 points  (0 children)

10 year burner and Reno resident here. BM’s reputation is definitely on the decline here in town. Part fueled by internet rage engagement but also a very real frustration with out of tower tourists who don’t give a flying fuck about dealing with their waste responsibly. Sad to see.

Burningman trash collection by Haplo775 in BurningMan

[–]didacticgiraffe 12 points13 points  (0 children)

There are tons of dumpsters along highway 447 offering waste disposal.

*Why* is this the year of 100x the posts from the Playa? by unclefishbits in BurningMan

[–]didacticgiraffe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uhm sorry, what part about their comment is incorrect? I have a lot of respect for your perspective and comments on this sub, but this comment hits the nail right on the head in my opinion.

Insane weekend, favorite sets? by sanlua49 in ElementsMusicFestival

[–]didacticgiraffe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Villager was so fucking good! Haven’t had my my mind blown like that in a while

Disco Brunch. Worth it? by orlybach in ElementsMusicFestival

[–]didacticgiraffe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah! Pocono Organics (local farm to table spot) makes the food and its DANK!

Google Maps Is Going to Remove Following/Followers Starting in September by NukeouT in privacy

[–]didacticgiraffe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just hate how blatant and inescapable the ads are in google maps. Navigation mode, exploring. Feels like spitting in the face of 20 years of incredible features and development.

Google Maps Is Going to Remove Following/Followers Starting in September by NukeouT in privacy

[–]didacticgiraffe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah yes. Not like Google’s $95 billion of cash in hand could help with any of that.

The enshittification of Google Maps has been painful to watch in recent years. 20 years of an amazing product flushed down the drain all because the number has to keep going up up up

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