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[–] sonofearth@lemmy.world 5 points 42 minutes ago

There should be a limit on how many sq.ft of home a human can own. If not, tax the hell out of the additional sq.ft. A Family of 4 doesn't need more than 1200sq.ft of carpet area (approx 3 bedrooms, 1 kitchen and 1 living room house) and that can be done in 2 floors.

[–] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 hour ago

Read it as "grifted", I think my subconscious is trying to say something... Anyway, trying to solve with money a problem you do not understand nor care about seems on brand.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago
[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

The best idea is to get some Japanese knotweed. Have every neighbor plant it and then put their properties up for sale. People have committed suicide over that being so destructive to property. Once discovered, no insurance company will touch him. By the the time he figures it out, that hell of a nightmare plant will have begun to grow up his soul. Honestly, people could do that with all investor properties, or those of other bad citizens. War is upon us.

Also, arsenic, lead, radioactive material, poison ivy, poison sumac, ragweed, poison oak, hornet, bees, bajillions of mice. There are an infinite amount of things that can be done to fight the bigger pest.

They could also use ultrasonic pulses through compression drivers pointed at his house constantly and see if he goes nuts. I'd have more fun from the headphone threat than if he just left me alone personally. Hell, I'd trade houses with one of these folks just for that entertainment.

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

He'll just move. It won't be a big deal for him.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 hours ago

To another neighborhood with 11 homes? Didn't those take 14 years? That weed is a slow growing catastrophe. He'll put lots of work in before it's discovered as a problem. And then when he finally leaves, fuck him. Who cares? He as a whole neighborhood that's fucking worthless.

[–] RonnyZittledong@lemmy.world 45 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

This is clearly just a big "fuck you" to his neighbors since they are probably filthy rich too if they are living next to him and would not have a problem buying noise cancelling headphones.

[–] Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago

I don't think it is. I've rubbed shoulders with the 1% on a few occasions and they tend to give shit like this the way we give out candy. I've heard of little gift baggies worth over 1k distributed in large numbers, and me being impressed by that was surprising to the person talking about it. He acted like it was $30-$60 when he was talking. It's spending on a completely different scale. Headphones are not a statement. They're an afterthought.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 32 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'm so hungry for billionaires.

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 hours ago

I long for the day 🥰

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 44 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

Zuckerberg has spent more than $110 million purchasing at least 11 homes on Edgewood Drive and Hamilton Avenue over the past 14 years,

Disgusting.

Underneath the compound, Zuckerberg added 7,000 square feet of space described as “basements,” which to area residents are more akin to “bunkers” or a “billionaire’s bat cave.” Zuckerberg similarly added a 5,000-square-foot underground structure to his compound in Hawaii, which he insists is not a “doomsday bunker.”

Extraordinarily Wasteful. Selfish. Parasitic.

In 2016, Palo Alto officials rejected a proposal to demolish four homes and replace them with smaller houses and large basements as part of a wider compound. While the city denied the specific application, Zuckerberg ultimately proceeded gradually, undertaking similar work in a piecemeal fashion to avoid further regulatory hurdles. The Palo Alto City Council and some residents have since criticized what they describe as the exploitation of zoning loopholes and the city’s regulatory inaction.

Move fast, break things. Do whatever the fuck you want. No one can stop your money.

Some of these properties that were recently purchased sit unoccupied, despite being in a region known for its acute housing shortage

Outright evil.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)
[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

If I had that money, I would have a doomsday bunker too, probably not 11 of them though.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Be Mr. House and set up a missile defense system, not bunkers.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

I've had nch for a couple years now and while they do dim it a bit they increase the tinny sound of my music

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Complete lack of empathy displayed when trying to perform "empathy".

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Yea it is like a litmus paper for psychopathy. "Here have some donuts to excuse the fact that I have been fucking up your peace for the last decade or so". Guy probably saw some parents handing candies in an airplane because their kid cried a lot and thought it applied to his case.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 158 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

The headphones are the least insane thing about this construction project. Homie is buying up a residential neighborhood to turn it into a compound with its own private school inside of it.

But who hasn’t done that.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

hes hoping ride of the "purge" when people starts lopping the oligarchs heads off, all of them are building one of these some form or another.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 51 minutes ago

Bunkers need airholes and i have an anus that can shit.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

All this does is prolong the terror. We know where it is. No bunker known to man is safe. That's why governments don't tell the public where theirs are. You remove all hope from my life and I'll show up to palo alto with a jack hammer and shovel and be inside his bunker within a week.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 18 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

He’s just building his little kingdom to set up for

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

Like all the billionaire tech bros want

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 49 minutes ago

The irony of the dark enlightenment is you have to be such a fucking monumental ignoramous to think the architects will not become its first targets

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 16 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Wtf did I just read. It’s scary how much of that stuff is in Project 2025 and has been executed on.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago

Ah yes, the minds of Curtis Yarvin and Peter Theil. The traitors who want monarchy and transhumanism.They are too psychopathic to realize that if they undergo transhumanism and become one with AI, it will probably remove all the emotional aspect of the creature. When that happens, there is no community, no collaboration, and no desire to reproduce. With this desire to evolve, they will turn themselves into a creature that is incapable of forming the very desire that led them to destroy humanity in the first place. They'll just be a bunch of brain dead, bad logic. Why do such awful and careless people run the world?

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 65 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

And the people he's buying headphones for, he probably wants to move out so he can buy their properties. I suspect their might be a tad of malicious gift giving here.

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I hope they are wealthy enough to just move and leave a nice spite house right in the middle of his Xavier's school for psychopathic children.

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 32 points 13 hours ago

Ah yes the Zuckerverse

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[–] arsCynic@piefed.social 49 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

That's it. From now on I dedicate my life to siphoning as much money from these unethical soulless bastards as possible to divert it to society-beneficial non-profits. More Linux, more skateparks, better education, more affordable housing, universal healthcare, et cetera. Never have I ever loathed one person so much as Mark Zuckerberg.

🎅 “Yippee ki-yay, motherfucker.”


⚜︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

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[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 14 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

Guys a fucking joke. Has no insight to the tech industry at all. It’s astounding he still has any money.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

The secret is that being evil makes life pretty easy, compared to actually trying to contribute to the world. Being ruthless a ruthless and shameless thief, plus a lot of luck, has allowed him to gather absurd quantities of wealth. There's no talent needed in this screwed up system

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 28 points 9 hours ago

A lot of that comes from willingly allowing scam ads on his platforms that contribute more than 1 billion to his annual profits.

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[–] Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 122 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

He could gift the planet by leaving Earth, possibly on one of his peer's rockets.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 79 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Like Mitt Romney so correctly stated: "They feel they are entitled to it!"
Except he stated it about people wanting health care! But the true astounding entitlement is with the rich, and with the really rich, it's mind boggling! They truly believe they DESERVE to be that rich, that they are ENTITLED to every extreme privilege they have!! But an ordinary person working two jobs barely deserve a home, food and health care?!
Remember the people are allowing this, we could change it easily if a majority really wanted to change it.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 7 points 3 hours ago

Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 30 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

A real man does not need a compound or a palace. And a castle will never make up for that face.

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[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 points 5 hours ago

So this is how protesting works? /s

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