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Post by kstrauser »

block_dagger wrote: post #624
kstrauser wrote: post #120

One big change is that they got better and much more organized. I go to an annual event with a few hundred of my friends and family. We rent a lodge in a national forest, set up an enormous sound system, and dance for 3 days around some very confused deer. There are food trucks and coffee bars and dozens of portapotties scattered around, plus daytime poolside sets while we swim around and listen to 100dB house. We gr…

I imagine it's more than just the deer who are affected by 100dB sound pollution and "confused" is probably quite an understatement.

What sound pollution? There are permits and everything, and woodlands are really, really big. A couple hills over you wouldn't be able to hear a thing.

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Post by vips7L »

devrob wrote: post #574

I think there's a lot of nuance here. I teach DJing (house/techno mostly) and there's never been more interest in electronic music & DJing. Folks who thought I was a bit out there in high school for liking electronic & dance music, have recently all now become more interested in DJing and raving. The DJ today is continuing to grow into the modern rock-star (albeit, in terms of real $ of music money, it's no where clo…

Phoneless events are out there. This Never Happened bans phones from every event. I just went to Proper NYE which wasn’t a TNH event but had Lane 8 (label owner) on main stage and there was significantly less phones than other artists.

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Post by justinator »

kstrauser wrote: post #120

One big change is that they got better and much more organized. I go to an annual event with a few hundred of my friends and family. We rent a lodge in a national forest, set up an enormous sound system, and dance for 3 days around some very confused deer. There are food trucks and coffee bars and dozens of portapotties scattered around, plus daytime poolside sets while we swim around and listen to 100dB house. We gr…

I still remember the first one I was supposed to go to. They didn't tell you the location until the day of.

It was a high school gymnasium.

Didn't work out so well.

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Post by daedrdev »

cyberax wrote: post #497
mixmastamyk wrote: post #478

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All government interference—significantly restricting supply and then doling out free money/tax-breaks to pay for whats left. As if govt leaders never took an econ 101 class.

There is no supply restriction. We're close to the record-high number of housing units per capita, it's only a bit lower than in 2007, and we're likely to surpass it by 2026.

This is not the right calculation. Housing units per household makes more sense, as the number of people per housing unit has been shrinking since we started collecting data as peoples preferences change. From what I can tell it peaked in 2011 at 1.17 and has declined to 1.12 since, and considering that we expect some vacancy from moving, condemned units, and people prefer certain areas and dont like many others, the trend does not support that we have enough housing. Not to mention the prices clearly show demand is there

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Post by plasticchris »

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #594
leptons wrote: post #563

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Are you me? lol. I'm in SoCal though, and we still do our own family-style desert parties and we sometimes go to bigger desert parties (Moontribe still going strong), and sometimes go to the mountains in the central valley too. Slinky (which was near Fresno) was so much fun until it ended recently after 21 years :( My friend group doesn't have anything in the mountains quite like Slinky to replace it, but it sounds l…

California is a last bastion of sorts socially, because los Angeles is an extrovert magnet. Ironically to the north, an opposite social civilization has attracted all the introverted people. Entertainment must extrovert to gain eyeballs, but it uses the technology of the introverts to do so. But underlying this ironic alliance is a force that cares not for the social polarity, it simply will nihilistically predate on…

A much more plausible take was that the matrix used human brains as coprocessors, credit to (who else?) Neil Gaiman for the idea.

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Post by olyjohn »

kstrauser wrote: post #218
latchkey wrote: post #183

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> One big change is that they got better and much more organized. If I'm thinking of the same groups you're mentioning, they were already super organized. Mostly because they've been going for decades now.

If you’re thinking of groups, plural, then you probably know the ones I mean. And yeah, I wear the 20th anniversary tank top to the gym.

Why not just say what you're talking about? Are these some secret festivals or something?

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Post by inopinatus »

kstrauser wrote: post #120

One big change is that they got better and much more organized. I go to an annual event with a few hundred of my friends and family. We rent a lodge in a national forest, set up an enormous sound system, and dance for 3 days around some very confused deer. There are food trucks and coffee bars and dozens of portapotties scattered around, plus daytime poolside sets while we swim around and listen to 100dB house. We gr…

So, basically, everyone grew up.

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Post by bluGill »

deanCommie wrote: post #482
bluGill wrote: post #431

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Compromise is the key. You cannot have everything. There are times I wish I lived downtown. There are times I wished I lived in the mountains. There are times I wish I lived on the beach. If you live in the city that enables some lifestyles and makes some impossible. If you live on a rural area you get a different life, and suburbs again different. I know farmers who think nothing about hunting off their back porch -…

Sure, but overlap also exists. If you live in LA or San Diego, you can live close to the beach and go there all the time. Most people there don't, but if that's important to you, you can achieve it. If you live in Vancouver, BC or Seattle, you can ski in the winter and hike in mountains outside of cell phone reception in the summer AFTER WORK, never mind every weekend. I assume most american cities have gun clubs. If…

Some but I gake just a tiny list. You wilL have more than one thing from the complete list but no matter where you choose to live you can't have everything.

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Post by kbr- »

whattheheckheck wrote: post #629
kbr- wrote: post #518

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If this is sarcastic and you mean the opposite, then I think that you don't have empathy for women receiving unwanted attention because you yourself never received unwanted attention and that is sad and I empathize with that feeling of sadness and shame. I think you should reconsider some parts of your belief system if it prompts such a thought that breaks through to be written in a comment for others to consume.

I think most women are aware that if they go to a nightclub and wear their most attractive outfit, they will receive a lot of attention. And yes, if you receive a lot of attention, some of that will be unwanted. Adults realize that and deal with it.

Don't confuse empathy with treating people like idiots or children and putting them into positions of victims.

I have received unwanted attention in the past. I didn't cry about it because shit happens.

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Post by bossyTeacher »

15155 wrote: post #41
bossyTeacher wrote: post #15

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MDMA and Ecstasy are the same thing afaik

"Ecstasy" traditionally contains MDMA - and potentially a host of other substances - in pressed tablet form. MDMA is typically just that one substance in crystalline powder form. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA#Forms

That applies to most tablets too. Not sure why mdma tablets warrant a different when other drugs in tablet form that often come with other stuff don't.
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