Fenley’s story -- this chapter, at any rate -- begins in 2019. After separating from his wife, with whom he has two kids, Fenley had moved in with his father, a sculptor, and uncle in Los Angeles, working on a start-up he’d founded called Crossies, which stores and digitizes physical media collections and offers them for streaming on the cloud. Two weeks after his arrival, his uncle received an eviction notice, and Fenley and his father began to look for somewhere new.
Fenley had run a a makerspace workshop called “Provolt” in Utah until the landlord had raised the rent. “There was a 65,000 square foot jail that I'd wanted wanted to move the makerspace into in Provo, and that that whole thing hadn't worked out,” he told me on the phone. (The city only wanted to sell the asbestos-riddled jail, which it described as “grim,” to owners who would demolish it; Fenley had wanted to rehabilitate the building.) The jail’s size became his minimum lower bound.
“I didn't care where it was in the country. And I wanted to find the cheapest possible price,” he said.” So Fenley hopped on the commercial real-estate listing site Loopnet and searched, as he later described to The Capital Times of Madison, Wis., “for properties over 65,000 square feet and sorted by price.” At the top of the list was the former home of the steel company Varco Pruden -- a 17-acre property with a warehouse and office complex in Pine Bluff that had been vacant and decaying for 15 years. The property was listed at $375,000; Fenley initially assumed the price was a typo.
For most of the next year, Fenley, living on the property and subsisting on ramen, was engaged in battle on multiple fronts: Against the city of Pine Bluff, against the scrappers stealing from his property, and against angry Murfie customers who wanted to know where their CDs were. (Still packed into the shipping containers sitting outside the Varco Pruden warehouse, as it happened.) But in the summer of 2021, he came into a windfall: He was able to sell nearly $900,000 worth of stock in a company to whom he’d sold a patent. A certain kind of person might use that money to extricate themselves from what had become a clearly stressful and likely unsustainable real-estate situation in Pine Bluff. Fenley, instead, used it to buy more property.
What is it with freaks having too much money and deciding to buy entire towns lol.
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Levels of divorced dad energy once thought impossible, have now been reached
HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER :my-hero:
As out there as this guy seems, he's like a fraction as bloodthirsty as Musk lol.
I feel like if his bets won/end up winning by sheer random chance he'd end up the same as every other out-there stembro who won big. If somehow things reversed and all his land hoarding meant that he made a 10,000% profit over the next 20 years, he'd be a fucking demon too. And if that enabled him to bet on tech companies that randomly win big, then he'd be even worse.
He's like the larval stage of an oligarch, sort of squishy and harmless, just wriggling around tasting everything to see what gives the best return, and he's liable to end up dried up on the sidewalk or eaten by a bird, but like all larval oligarchs if they successfully feed enough to pupate they'll emerge as an elephant sized wasp, eager to feast on human flesh and be worshipped as gods by techbro dipshits everywhere.
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Agreed. He's a clown crashing a clown car, rather than a circus fire consuming the town.
Just hope he doesn't blow up the town with his nuclear reactor made of old MRI magnets
the three most important things about a property:
locationprice,locationprice, andlocationpriceit reminds me of that 4chan post about how buying a stock for a penny is always a good deal because the price can't go down any further
If you could be bothered for a moment, could you collect your not-alt totally-just-a-fan-out-of-the-aether or at least nicely ask them to go to bed? I already tucked them in but they got fussy.
i think you just gotta report em, idk what to tell you
Oh I have.
They were making your position on that one thread look pretty bad, yet at the same time you suddenly had no interest in it, and in fact bowed out with remarkably slick timing. Could just be coincidence, of course. Just like the weird pause that suddenly happened where I didn't get any additional rage replies to this specific message for a curiously long period compared to everything else I posted in the last while.
Hey man, just wanted you to know your loyal servant a_serbian_milf just got banned for his incoherent whining. Better watch your mouth if you'd like to continue posting.
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Ulysses, it's entirely possible that these people are independently pieces of shit. Whoever Organize is, you can see from their activity that they are terminally online to the point of it resembling like a manic episode or something. It is completely consistent for them to have overly-fast responses.
It's not the fast responses that got my attention. It was the timing of the slow responses, and especially a few loaded comments I made where the "not an alt" jumped unprompted and answered as someone either closely following a suspected main, or more likely reacting while falling "out of character" to the prompting I gave them.
One of the very first posts that account made was all-caps screaming "not an alt" when I asked a loaded question about the thread that obviously provoked the account's creation tonight. Mind, the "not an alt" started posting in a completely unrelated thread, but immediately and instantly reacted to the context of what I mentioned.
Either way, what a stupid petite bourgeoisie article for a "not an alt" to start going mask-off scratched liberal about in the first place.
https://hexbear.net/post/215315
I still think it's a pertinent detail that the writer seems more like a labor aristocrat than petite bourgeois, but anyway I do see what you're talking about.
Yeah, I'm convinced, they're labor aristocrats now that the term has been clarified to me. Still insufferable, paid :bootlicker:
Owned lmao. And they were just gloating over my looming ban a minute ago! Truly Shakespearean. Greater the pride etc. etc.
i feel like you've fixated on me as a nemesis since that last argument we had about something or other. if there's anything i can do to put you more at ease lemme know. i truly don't bear ill will toward you.
Not really. It could all be coincidence, but was that article really so good that it needed that much hostility toward so many users, from you or from them?
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No coincidence required, it really is that simple. I am a different person. Look at things that way and all your Agatha Christie mysteries and coincidences and double agents and international wreckers disappear.
i didn't intend hostility. i'm sometimes an abrasive person online, with an admitted contrarian streak, but i stand by the arguments i made and i don't wish to rehash them.
Jesus fucking christ man, you could complicate a rock. Maybe I took a shit. Maybe I pissed. Maybe I took a nap. Maybe I went for a walk. You think you're Sherlock Holmes but you're even dumber than the average twitter sleuth.