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Posted by speckx 1 day ago

The map that keeps Burning Man honest(www.not-ship.com)
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jh00ker 16 hours ago|
Kind of crazy this is so successful, considering it's hosted in a country where it's the norm for (so many, but not all) people to leave their bags of popcorn and cups of soda at their seats when they leave the movie theatre or ball game, under the assumption, "someone else will take care of it."
giarc 16 hours ago|
But that's all based on societal norms. It's kind of understood (whether it's right or not) to leave popcorn etc under your seat at a theatre or a stadium. At Burning Man, it's obviously not acceptable.
m463 18 hours ago||
People do high-speed driving on the smooth lakebed. Encountering a lag bolt might be quite dangerous.
nikanj 17 hours ago||
The real moop map is the absolute mountain of unsorted garbage that gets dumped at the first rest stop / dumpster / trash can.

Yeah cool you did not leave your plastic trinkets in the desert, but you did leave all of it next to the trash can on your first gas break

reubenlavin 14 hours ago||
Hearing all the issues with lug bolts in the ground I'm curious whether metal detectors were used during cleanup.
gorfian_robot 23 hours ago||
the moop map used to be a analog creation with pics of it uploaded every day of the resto(ration) process. some years ago they switched to digital tools and now they don't release it for several months after the event. huh.
stonegray 21 hours ago||
The analog version still exists, and gets hand updated every day (though we don’t upload photos). You can visit it the following year at the appropriately named camp, Moop Map.
actionfromafar 22 hours ago|||
I want to know more about this analog upload! :-)
dekdrop 22 hours ago||
what sort of tool they use?
arian_ 17 hours ago||
An event built on radical self-reliance now needs a public shame map to keep people honest. Every community that scales past the point where trust works eventually reinvents compliance.
andrewflnr 16 hours ago||
Sort of. The "compliance" here is just transmitting pressure applied by the regular, boring, government. But certainly the cleanup would not happen without serious pressure from somewhere.
Daishiman 16 hours ago||
The process of setting up a camp for the first few times and attempting new art installations is positively gargantuan. There are a lot of considerations happening and MOOP is just one of them. Unless you expect people to get camps and installations right the first time, you need this.
HoldOnAMinute 20 hours ago||
I wish I had gone before the billionaires discovered it
dpc050505 17 hours ago|
The small regionals don't attract billionaires, some even unaffiliated from the BMorg over certain billionaires being involved with it.
bogometer 20 hours ago||
Thank you for not "mooping" around.
pocksuppet 4 hours ago||
I'm not going to be Gell-Mann Amnesiated. At least not without calling it out.

> Marblelous music. Wintergatan is a quirky instrument that relies heavily on marbles to make music. It's beautiful to watch, and doesn't sound anything like you expect.

No. Wintergatan is the artist name of the guy who made and played the instrument.

> The infinite buffalo sentence. It's a grammatically correct sentence, using just the word buffalo. The video explanation benefits from some useful visuals, but you'll still probably hate this. Or absolutely love it. There's definitely no middle ground here.

The visual below this point is completely useless and does not explain how to make an infinite sentence.

Worf 23 hours ago|
Is "plant matter" weed?
mrWiz 23 hours ago||
Mostly no. Dead leaves that were just lying on a trailer without getting cleaned in advance and bits of decorative plants that broke off are probably the worst offenders.
quux 22 hours ago||
Worth noting: Plants, living or dead, are banned from Burning Man because they turn into moop really easily, but some always end up there anyway
ceejayoz 23 hours ago|||
You think they’re leaving any of that behind?
Jarwain 22 hours ago||
If it was that'd be an absurd amount of weed being left behind to make a mark on the map.
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