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Mark Zuckerberg gifted noise-canceling headphones to his Palo Alto neighbors because of the non-stop construction around his 11 homes (fortune.com)

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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."