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Showing Original Post only (View all)Zuckerberg, the neighbor from hell [View all]
Mark Zuckerberg gifted noise-canceling headphones to his Palo Alto neighbors because of the nonstop construction around his 11 homesBillionaire Mark Zuckerberg has been rankling his neighbors in Palo Alto as he works on expanding and modifying the 11 homes that he has purchased in the area. To smooth over tensions, The New York Times says Zuckerberg gifted his next-door neighbors noise-canceling headphones as a peace offering.
Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire cofounder of Facebook and CEO of Meta, reportedly gave noise-canceling headphones to his neighbors in the Crescent Park neighborhood of Palo Alto in an effort to address years of frustration over ongoing construction and disruption surrounding his expanding residential compound, according to The New York Times.
Zuckerberg has spent more than $110 million purchasing at least 11 homes on Edgewood Drive and Hamilton Avenue over the past 14 years, transforming this once-idyllic neighborhood of lawyers, business executives, and Stanford University professors into a zone dominated by construction equipment, surveillance, and frequent lavish parties.
Some of these properties that were recently purchased sit unoccupied, despite being in a region known for its acute housing shortage, while others have been converted into guest homes, lush gardens, a pickleball court, a pool with a hydrofloor, andat least for a timea private school for Zuckerbergs children and several others (a use that appears not to comply with local zoning ordinances).
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/mark-zuckerberg-gifted-noise-canceling-132335870.html
Nothing like a little excess.
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That is obscene. That Zuckerberg has that when there are so many poor. n/t
PatrickforB
12 hrs ago
#25
Why don't these tech bros just go off and live on their own goddamned islands?
LudwigPastorius
23 hrs ago
#17