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Posted by cutoff 17 hours ago

Playa Phone(playaphone.com)
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1attice 15 hours ago|
An old injury, but I'm always devastated to see BRC stuff on HN. It's like watching Elon snap a Nazi salute at inauguration: an unwelcome but undeniable admission that something (or someone) admirable can shift smoothly to moral horror without losing (or perhaps even burnishing) its reputation.

BRC was an artistic rebellion, and now it's where people like me go to network.

I can't take me anywhere.

tobin1994 4 hours ago||
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Helldez 14 hours ago||
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readthenotes1 16 hours ago||
Did the original founders intend burning Man to be a parody on the trash heap that is 21st century human civilization?
criddell 16 hours ago||
No.

If you are genuinely curious, here are the original ten principles of Burning Man that were established when the event was still in San Francisco:

https://burningman.org/about-us/10-principles/

kart23 2 hours ago|||
leave no trace is insane.

look at the overflowing dumpsters and abandoned bikes in reno. even some people just dumping trash at random peoples homes. think of the amount of diesel burned in generators, trucks hauling tons of steel, shipping containers for camps, just so people can party in the middle of nowhere.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Reno/comments/1n5z9kc/burning_man_t...

DonHopkins 16 hours ago|||
And don't forget to donate to this important campaign!

Build A 300-Mile Wall Around SF During Burning Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO_r6ndZRZY

>A community effort to construct a 300-mile wall in one week and prevent Burning Man attendees from returning to the Bay Area.

>"I'm asking for your help crowdfunding the most ambitious Burning Man project ever a wall that's built around the entire bay area during the week of Burning Man."

ElijahLynn 15 hours ago||
That is fantastic! Dude should be on The Onion team!
radley 12 hours ago||
No. But some of it was certainly a parody of the trash heap that was 20th century human civilization. Those groups are still around.
charcircuit 15 hours ago||
I bet the dataset of who is calling who is pretty valuable. It's people related to others who were willing to drop a bunch of money to go to the desert, so you know they likely have some disposable income. If this operator isn't collecting this, it may be a good business opportunity for a competitor.
jspaetzel 15 hours ago||
Slow your roll, not everything is a startup, some things are just for fun
charcircuit 14 hours ago||
The best kind of things are both fun and profitable enough to make them financial viable to keep doing.
Klonoar 6 hours ago||
It’s an art piece, numbskull.
charcircuit 52 minutes ago||
What are you trying to imply? Beautiful things should not be allowed to make money?
aaron42net 14 hours ago||
The only data I collect is my phone bill, and the only thing I do with it show hourly stats on the site and a summary of calls at the end of the event.
languagehacker 16 hours ago|
So happy to see that the comments so far are just Burning Man hate. I appreciate SomaFM's impact on my appreciation for electronic music and alternative music streaming services back in the '90s, but outside of that I'm pretty sure it's mostly been a net negative from a cultural standpoint in total.
blululu 15 hours ago||
I have the DroneZone playing on a dedicated SomaFM web radio in my living room right now. This makes up for a lot of negatives in the world. As a genuine question are the specific net negatives of Burningman? (The classic burner who is better than you because he goes to burning man sucks and all but I'm pretty sure that guy would suck just as much if he made his whole personality about anything else).
lukan 15 hours ago|||
Can you give reasons?

I never was there, but it seems a place where people do creative things, with bringing people together - like this simple project here.

brcmthrowaway 16 hours ago||
Love to see Burning Man hate.