mysoulishome @ mysoulishome @lemmy.world

Reddit refugee, RIP Apollo 7/1/2023. I laugh at comedy and love love.

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If you thoroughly understand the situation and feel that way I respect it.

Yes… I guess I am used to finding places on the internet that value nuance. There is no nuance to that perception. I guess there isn’t much when it comes to burning man. Hippies are dumb, rich hippies are dumber, so bad things happening to them is hilarious.

Are burning man people rich? Not being a smartass, I’m just trying to understand the perception.

Ok and people rebuild their homes in flood zones, it’s not the criticism that bothers me but when people take joy in it. The posts I’ve seen are just cheap.

Yeah I guess hipsters are still fine to laugh at, even when they drown, because driving to the desert to blow of some steam is frivolous. I’m disappointed.

Yes

That’s a good connection. Vegans are also popularly perceived as being condescending douchebags but I think most of them are probably humble, chill people who are doing their thing. I don’t have any evidence of this. People laugh like idiots when studies come out that vegan diets are bad for babies or proven to cause ______ deficiency…ok. I know a Native American guy who owns a bbq place and sells tshirts with a cartoon of Indians sitting around a campfire saying “vegan is ____ tribe’s word for village idiot.” Seems like cheap larry the cable guy laughs and anyone who uses this as an excuse to laugh at suffering is a piece of shit…but you do you, folks.

Yep, exactly my confusion…this makes it ok to take joy at what happened? I think the perception is wrong but even if not…it’s fucked up.

I appreciate your honesty but this sort of boggles my mind…like well they were asking for it. Ok then.

So strange to me. I have never been but the people I have met who have gone multiple times and loved it have made me think it’s a force for good.

My first exposure was a wedding I DJ’d, most of the people there were friends of the bride and groom from burning man and they are burned (ha) in my memory as the type of people who go. Even the “pastor” who performed the ceremony. Bride is a travel writer, husband is a doctor. All of the bridal party. Extremely intelligent, kind, funny humble humans all. I played EDM music. Best wedding I ever did.

Wow.

This was put on display with the campaign to pass proposition 8 in California in the 2000’s which outlawed gay marriage. It was a conservative brainchild but Mormons were largely behind its promotion and success. It was made public what businesses donated to the campaign to support it, those businesses were boycotted for many years after… I remember seeing my Mormon chiropractor on this list and learned that the church called on all members to personally/financially support the passing. How that happened in such a heavily liberal state is a testament to their power.

Thankfully (ironically?) prop 8 later became instrumental in legalizing gay marriage when it was taken to the Supreme Court. If you don’t know the story I highly recommend learning about it. There are plays and movies about it that are very moving and entertaining.

Not unpopular IMO but a good point to be considerate. I think a lot of people would be happy to bless something like this IF asked for permission. Could probably incorporate it into the bouquet or garter toss…would be cute. I was a wedding DJ but also remember my wedding clearly because we did a lot of unique things and had fun with the format. The best weddings have some creative, unique things includes…

I guess maybe I thought we were past this…or at least most social media has enough sensible people that things like this are properly shouted down…

Official subreddit? Loljk

Ugh…I feel this. Recently have been struggling with tennis elbow and without Reddit all I would have had was shitty google web results…blogs, bullshit articles full of clickbait and ads with the same 5 tips. Including reddit I was able to figured out what the actual best information was…without the influence of big media bullshit.

I did check mastodon and Lemmy…nothing really.

The shitty thing is the biggest value reddit has at this point is the years of valuable information WE put into it. Facts and opinions ranked and critiqued and crowdsourced. Our best stories, photos, resources. Despite what people tell themselves, we don’t own any of it. It sucks.

No one else is going to acknowledge that my dude is kind of dreamy?

I agree. I guess I understand the argument that if someone says “hey I’m going to come up here and I want everyone to hurt me, physically and sexually” then people do…it isn’t wrong. But I just can’t stomach it. Maybe I’m a prude. I guess it’s legal for consenting adults. And I guess it should be legal…

Wow. Awesome of you to do this…

I agree she was prepared for it and expected it but still fucked. She didn’t tell them to be cruel…she just said they were allowed to. Reminds me of the Stanford prison experiment where you kind of give people a tacit permission to be evil…so they do and then we are confronted with the aftermath. I just can’t imagine I could cause someone’s skin to bleed purposefully and not feel awful…

Not the same but related…this guy was shot as an art piece

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot_(Burden)