Mark Zuckerberg gifted noise-canceling headphones to his Palo Alto neighbors because of the non-stop construction around his 11 homes
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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.
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.
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.
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Ah yes the Zuckerverse
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
Wtf did I just read. It’s scary how much of that stuff is in Project 2025 and has been executed on.
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?
Conquerors putting on technology colored lipstick
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
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.
Bunkers need airholes and i have an anus that can shit.
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.
He could gift the planet by leaving Earth, possibly on one of his peer's rockets.
Anytime there's a movie about a robot being sent to space, it doesn't go well. I'm told molten metal works better.
the android this time, is zuckeberg.
Him and Mrbeast have that soulless stare. I want a vault tec style experiment where we put these guys in a bunker with a bunch of dangerous items that aren't weapons and just observe what happens. Musk can join too. I'm talking tools and stuff that these guys have absolutely no idea how to use. Basically manhunt without experience on how to use the tools or guidance on what to do. Allow them more than enough food to survive, but only basic ingredients like raw flour, no frozen pizzas or anything.
Theres a small piece of lead that could do the trick a whole lot cheaper
1 trick doctors don't want you to know!
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.
Complete lack of empathy displayed when trying to perform "empathy".
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.
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.
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.
It's probably not even like what 30-60 is to us... more like a 5.
Techno-Utopia means dehumanizing the mass of humanity.
"My compound is worth more than all of your weak biological ears."
Palo Alto has finally started to crack down on this nonsense. It's been a wealthy area for decades, but the behavior of these ultra rich freaks is hard for anyone to tolerate.
It is telling that Zuckerberg hasn't sent them all the glasses that record everything.
The message there is clear.
or ones that probes thier mind, what he wants is the thoughts.
Disgusting.
Extraordinarily Wasteful. Selfish. Parasitic.
Move fast, break things. Do whatever the fuck you want. No one can stop your money.
Outright evil.
Those are bunkers. All the techbro billionaires are into bunkers.
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This is important to understand. They don't care about the fall of society or the planet, as long as the financial system stays intact and their lines go up. They have long prepared themselves for the end they themselves are pushing.
They’re idiots. They’ll be kings of a shithole if things implode and they actually need a bunker. Yay, you lived! Now enjoy a horrible land.
I agree. Hubris pure and simple. Seems a lot of that around these days.
If I had that money, I would have a doomsday bunker too, probably not 11 of them though.
Be Mr. House and set up a missile defense system, not bunkers.
If the US's military industrial complex hasn't been able to figure that out, I seriously wonder if the Zuck is able to figure it out with his wealth
Well trump wants a "golden dome" which will never happen. First of all, our country is far too large to make that even remotely feasible. And second, if anyone attacks us, it'll be with weapons far more advanced than the iron dome is capable of dealing with. Their enemies use old tech that can be mostly defeated with a system like that in a small enough area. That just doesn't work for a country as big as the US. Especially when talking of drone swarms and (real) hypersonic missiles.
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.
Skate parks? You mean HIPPIE HANGOUTS?
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I'm so hungry for billionaires.
I long for the day 🥰
Destroy their oxygen intakes. Job done.
Fart into it. Make them suffer.
Maybe a more potent gas could do the trick.
Like this ?
What I would give for a movie prop tube of green pearl VX to leave around my workshop...
If the Hitman games taught me anything, is that a single bottle of poison (the type that you can comfortably fit in your pocket) is sufficient to kill an entire building of people if you get it into the ventilation system.
Thing is, they need to bring their help and the help won't be happy if their families are left high and dry. These people are just too fucking stupid
I suspect they have some sort of plan how to solve that conundrum. We should ask Curtis Yarvin.
Oh I am sure they planned and maybe even got the Saudis to consult. But I still think they are too stupid to realize the flaws of those plans. Even if they were as smart as they think they are, it's difficult to predict how things will work after the civilization they depend on for their power collapses. Hell, it probably doesn't matter how smart you are, such a scenario is inherently unpredictable.
Blinkered I'd say. Self-obsessed. Neverending greed is a mental condition. Either way, it has very little to do with intelligence imo.
Someone last year was talking about plans being discussed involving "obedience collars" which I assume are just shock collars that have the ability to kill.
You can come into safety as a slave or die outside.
They probably have a small group of people whom they treat very well specifically so they won't shoot them in the back once they're the only ones with the guns in post-apocalyptic world.
I always wonder about that because you need a lot of people to function in an "end of the world scenario". It just feels like the ones that are doing the real work are the ones with the power in that case.
This is weirdly similar in many ways to Dungeon Crawler Carl. Dwindling numbers of people, digging ever deeper... Different in most other ways, but I'm a little obsessed right now.
They made interconnected ones during covid, fallout irl. They have private islands with stem cell clinics. Adam devine talks about how he goes to one on the workaholics podcast since they give way more than the dose you can get in the US.
I legit think that is their game plan, to enact wealth based population control. Millionaires become the new working poor and billionaires become bunker lords. Everyone else just dies
If they want to go hide in a hole, that's fine by me. It'll presumably be simple enough to just seal it up completely.
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.
He'll just move. It won't be a big deal for him.
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.
so why is the world not over run with this one plant?
Its japanese and they were stopped in WW2
Because it's illegal as fuck to take it over state lines. If you research the conservation material or whatever, they often have a map of exactly where someone has found it so they can keep an eye on it.
so how do that stop it?
I think they can treat the spot for several years and get it under control. It's considered ecologically harmful and controlled waste in some areas. Apparently it takes knowledge and skill to deal with and only professionals should attempt it.
Is it worse than running bamboo?
Wow just looked up knotweed and its edible and actually contains a shit load of reservatrol.
All those neighbors will be fucked over too.
Not if they sell which is what he wants.
A real man does not need a compound or a palace. And a castle will never make up for that face.
Maybe that's why he's trying to build a life underground.
That's where he came from, that's the life he knows best.
lol just wants a place for his fellow lizard-people to live in comfort.
11 homes?
It’s crazier than you think
This is in top of however much land he has in Hawaii and elsewhere
It’s not crazy. I too would buy up my neighbors properties for what equates to a few hundred dollars.
I would too, but then I would let those in need move in.
And that's why we'll never be billionaires.
Your empathy is the barrier.
Yup!
That's why there's no good billionaires.
Psychopathy can only be adaptive and advantageous if the majority of the population has no barriers. If they kill everyone but them, they'll just die or work themselves.
Yeah I don’t think I’d be a a very successful fiefdom.
2 properties there who can easily wait for 50 or even 100 million.
Eleven, my dear Watson.
Go go gadget guillotine
We don't need to build guillotines this time. They're digging their own graves. Bury them and starve them in their tombs.
Great idea. Modern problems require modern solutions
"For the love of God, Montresor!"
Yes...
for the love of god
Guys a fucking joke. Has no insight to the tech industry at all. It’s astounding he still has any money.
A lot of that comes from willingly allowing scam ads on his platforms that contribute more than 1 billion to his annual profits.
The secret is that being evil makes life pretty easy, compared to actually trying to contribute to the world. Being 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
He's obviously not a fucking joke as you say. He had enough insight to create unlimited wealth, and your jealousy of it is abundant by your comment.
What would have been better to say is that he had lost sight of anything on a normal level of thinking. His wealth has removed him from normal society and created a psychopath that is looking for any loophole to exploit to get him to his goal.
Putin also has "unlimited" wealth.
This cuckerberg stole ideas, bought competition/politicians to create a market for privacy invading industry without users ever knowing what they're signing up for. He kept this evil go on through genocide and lots and lots of shit takes.
He was a psychopath before the "wealth".
"People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks."
He's refering to people like you.
Uh huh.
We don't dickride billionaires here, they're all evil.
Not dicking dick riding anyone idiot.
LOL Yeah, you got me. 🤣🤣
I heard that he has dummy homes between his real home in order to prevent anyone with telescopes or binoculars from ever actually being able to see into his real residence. I also heard that he deliberately camouflages it in order to cover it up from satellite and aerial views.
This is the guy who absolutely wants to demolish everyone's privacy except for his own. He guards his own like his life and soul depend on it.
Well you see, there are 11 days in a faceweek
If you read the article, it gets into it a little bit. Demolishing the homes, building smaller homes, and primarily creating some kind of enormous underground bunker-type network.
One to mix the kool aid, one to serve the kool aid, nine for the kool aid servers to sleep in while preparing for the crowds coming to drink the kool aid...
Totally on brand. Feels like the way he treats FB's fuckups.
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.
Did you mean 2200? I had a 1200sqft apartment before and that definitely couldn't fit a family
We don't need to fight over little figures like this. Let's just multiply op's figures by 5. And then we can tax a lot after that, multiply that by 10 and tax more than what it's worth after that.
Problem isn't someone living in 2 bedroom per person, it's when they have multiple mansions. Or multiple "investment properties", and some of them are just empty because it's still profitable
Let them go as big as they want, but they're heavily taxed on any residence they control (it can't be "owned" because there are ways around that word) but don't live in for at least six months plus one day out of the year. Make this true for everyone. We're not telling anyone they can't have a second "vacation" house, just that it won't be cheap and certainly not profitable. Doesn't apply to multifamily rental properties of four or more units. Single family home rentals are destroyed, suddenly the market is flooded with cheap homes.
Also, we need to make it international, in that they'll be taxed at home for any residences controlled overseas. Of course, they'll hide them behind shell businesses owned through Nevis, but that's a different problem that should also be addressed.
Oh no, someone is being reasonable on the internet!? ;) that's a good idea though. Also, rent seeking properties should be taxed higher.
They'll probably just forward that down to the renters. We need the renters to have an option to buy instead of rent if they want. So that some people can't buy up all properties and then jack up prices of both renting and buying houses.
Again, I think it's ok if you have 1 more house or maybe 2 houses you rent out, but anything more than that taxed heavily. Or a non-personal entity owning multiple properties should be taxed so high they can't keep it up. But it is worrying that even the slightly well-off people with 1 property start increasing rent. But having enough available and not having someone hord all of them means they can't keep some empty and still make profits, so many of those houses will be available for rent for cheaper.
Like, if we have 100 people with 100 properties they rent out, means all of them want their property occupied. But 5 people with 20 property each can double the rent and have 40% property unoccupied and still make profits.
Good points. Maybe that last could be part of the equation. Like a logarithmicly escalating rate for unoccupied rentals.
Not trying to fight, just confused. My wife and I were in a 1800sqft townhome later on and that was like the minimum in our minds.
Sorry, I just said it in general. Most of the limits, in my opinion, should allow some wiggle room for the normal people, maybe even slightly well-off people. So that people at the bottom are not fighting with each other about the policies that are actually made for people at the top
My 1200 square foot home has 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, laundry, pantries, and an open kitchen, dining, and living room area. The bedrooms aren't large, but they're adequate for a family of four.
bruh 1200 sq ft of carpet area is considered as a luxurious apartment in India. you can easily fit a family of 4 people in there and a guest or 2 for a couple of days. We live in 2 bedroom 850 sqft carpet apartment which now is getting congested with 5 people.
The Romanovs fit in a room a little over 200 sqft so it can be done, just not very cozy.
What fuck talking about? My home is 1100sf and we fit a family of four just fine. You were lied to on that square footage you apparently had.
I think they meant 12000 sq ft. Roomy but still cozy.
I think people shouldn't have any sq ft, just square meters
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.
Big deal. Some tech company slipped him a bunch of earbuds to kiss his ass. One of those houses is probably full of all the free shit that corporations send him.
He could have given each neighbor a new SUV, but instead he gave them some old promotional earbuds from some Facebook managers' meeting.
Were I a neighbor (with a lot of money) in this situation, I think I'd be waiting until Zuck tries to use those properties, then registering my neighboring properties via overseas shell corporations and starting a Cuban Embassy infra-sound attack regime, right up to the limits of what's legally "acceptable" for construction noise limits - shutting it off as the cops approach the neighborhood, then restarting it at random times every day for as long as this construction is taking. When a formal complaint is filed, document return of the noise cancelling headphones as "obvious adequate relief."
I bet he just wanted to slip a listening device into their homes to hear what they say about him.
Breaking zoning codes to build bunkers? WTF. Are the Russian Oligarchs, Chinese CCP and PLA involved in his business activities?
Is he the new Sarah Winchester?
She was more sane than he is
Well my neighbors do construction since fucking 8 in the morning and don't buy me anything so at least it's something
I rented a house with some friends while at University... come to find out, the reason the owner rented it to us was because the neighbor was doing extensive renovations for 16 months... at 12 months the landlord "let us" switch to a month to month lease, then when the renovations completed she served us notice to vacate within 3 weeks.
And they say empathy was dead.
Why all the construction? Is he building 11 ballrooms?
Here is the thing. Mark Zuckerberg wants to know what everyone thinks and how they think and every detail about our lives no matter how small.
On the other hand, he is ultra paranoid about his own privacy. His compound where he lives is difficult to see on satellite and many of the buildings around him are dummies so people can't see by any means His actual home or what he does there. He probably has a fully offline/air gapped computer system for his own use that has never been connected to the internet.
I bet he's a big pedo. Maybe a guy torturing immigrants. The ones who disappeared from ICE facilities are probably in his "fake" buildings and in chains with bull heads on.
At this point in time I am willing to believe that even if Zuckerberg has zero interest in children, these billionaires all probably have orgies where they fuck children as a bonding exercise and to 'seal' themselves in the deal.
Kinda like how in the Mafia you had to murder someone to 'make your bones' and be a made man or someone important in the gang. It's one of those things you can't walk back from.
I'll just stay common.
In all honesty the more I look at it the more hopeless I get. The times of social progress we had as humans were brief blips in a sea of purposeful and enforced inequality.
All the billionaires want their own private Epstein Ballroom.
No balls to be seen there.
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
It also hides the sound when they dematerialize back into their native form
So this is how protesting works? /s
Let's not throw in autistics with this cunt. Autism does not excuse such breathtaking evil and neurodivergents in general have enough shit going on without the association.