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Author Topic: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?  (Read 1685 times)

Not A Serious Person

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Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« on: September 04, 2023, 08:53:24 PM »
I've never understood the appeal of Burning Man. It seems like an event for self-entitled tech bros to get high for a week and act all-important.

Am I wrong?

Hedge Fund Billionaire Ray Dalio last year





Burning Man is underway. Here are the famous CEOs and billionaires who have attended tech bros' favorite party, from Elon Musk to Ray Dalio.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-ceos-founders-attended-burning-man

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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2023, 07:47:16 AM »
Guess desert and rain don't go together.

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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2023, 08:54:08 AM »
A well intentioned gathering that has lost its way a bit over time.

Jockey

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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2023, 09:14:54 AM »
This is what happens when rich white guys want to be part of the ‘cool kids’.

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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2023, 11:33:47 AM »
Guess desert and rain don't go together.
I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain.

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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2023, 12:12:39 PM »
This is what happens when rich white guys want to be part of the ‘cool kids’.

Must be a lot of Scoopers that partake then, heyna?
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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2023, 12:37:25 PM »
Must be a lot of Scoopers that partake then, heyna?

Scoopers can ruin anything.

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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2023, 02:18:26 PM »
I've never understood the appeal of Burning Man. It seems like an event for self-entitled tech bros to get high for a week and act all-important.

Am I wrong?

Hedge Fund Billionaire Ray Dalio last year





Burning Man is underway. Here are the famous CEOs and billionaires who have attended tech bros' favorite party, from Elon Musk to Ray Dalio.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-ceos-founders-attended-burning-man



Coachella also hasn't been cool for years.  The corpos and dorks trying to look cool show up, and the cool kids move on.

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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #8 on: September 06, 2023, 03:07:17 PM »
I've never understood the appeal of Burning Man. It seems like an event for self-entitled tech bros to get high for a week and act all-important.

Am I wrong?



You’re not wrong for the last 10 years or so.

Used to be a hippie gathering - until the rich, white bros destroyed it the way they destroy everything that is good.

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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2023, 05:43:23 AM »
You’re not wrong for the last 10 years or so.

Used to be a hippie gathering - until the rich, white bros destroyed it the way they destroy everything that is good.


  so much for a color blind society...why jock breath always sees things thru a prism is what is wrong with society and his ilk
don't...don't don't don't don't

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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #10 on: September 07, 2023, 06:24:12 AM »

  so much for a color blind society...why jock breath always sees things thru a prism is what is wrong with society and his ilk

Color blind society?  Could you please elaborate?

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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #11 on: September 07, 2023, 07:15:18 AM »

  so much for a color blind society...why jock breath always sees things thru a prism is what is wrong with society and his ilk

7.5 out of 10
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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2023, 08:35:53 AM »
Color blind society?  Could you please elaborate?

go back and listen to MLK a little bit
don't...don't don't don't don't

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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #13 on: September 07, 2023, 08:41:02 AM »
go back and listen to MLK a little bit

1 out of 10
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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #14 on: September 07, 2023, 08:53:31 AM »
You’re not wrong for the last 10 years or so.

Used to be a hippie gathering - until the rich, white bros destroyed it the way they destroy everything that is good.
I bet you also miss the 'good old' days of no women or people of color in positions of power in public corporations.

Sorry America is moving on without you.

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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #15 on: September 07, 2023, 08:59:21 AM »
I bet you also miss the 'good old' days of no women or people of color in positions of power in public corporations.

Sorry America is moving on without you.

Has any group historically suffered as much as white American males have since Obama got elected?
Ramsey head thoroughly up his ass.

Hards Alumni

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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #16 on: September 07, 2023, 09:17:39 AM »
go back and listen to MLK a little bit

Oh lord.  You're so stupid I can't even handle it. 

Didn't you fire an employee for her hair?
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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #17 on: September 07, 2023, 09:34:34 AM »
IBTL

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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #18 on: September 07, 2023, 09:43:55 AM »
Oh lord.  You're so stupid I can't even handle it. 

Didn't you fire an employee for her hair?

Threatened to.  Strongly suggested that she should rethink how she chose to support her friend going through cancer.
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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #19 on: September 07, 2023, 10:08:18 AM »
Threatened to.  Strongly suggested that she should rethink how she chose to support her friend going through cancer.

Bald women don't make it twitch for rocket.

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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #20 on: September 07, 2023, 10:58:26 AM »
I bet you also miss the 'good old' days of no women or people of color in positions of power in public corporations.

Sorry America is moving on without you.

You and roqquet must have some really deep conversations when you hang out.

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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #21 on: September 07, 2023, 03:09:32 PM »
go back and listen to MLK a little bit

Please do tell. Which speech are you referencing? And if you say "I have a Dream", did you listen to the entire thing are just the one clip that everyone knows?
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Re: Any (Current of Former) Burners Here?
« Reply #22 on: September 07, 2023, 03:22:00 PM »
Please do tell. Which speech are you referencing? And if you say "I have a Dream", did you listen to the entire thing are just the one clip that everyone knows?

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Ramsey head thoroughly up his ass.

 

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