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Re:Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote w... by KennyBlanken on Monday August 15, 2022 @03:10PM (#32473914)
The "benforbars" site has all the hallmarks of a free-energy nutjob complete with comic sans font and MSpaint images.

Between that and the tweet whining about how hard email is to set up (!) this dude isn't qualified to run a Subway franchise, certainly not multiple internet companies.

Re:Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote w... by ryanmercer on Monday August 15, 2022 @04:10PM (#32474745)
I went through 6 months of his tweets and, yeah, he either doesn't have a grip on reality, has some sort of mental health issue, or is just constantly trying to run some angle.

- Yup, the free energy fonts and conspiratorial claims about video of his fusion reactor being suppressed

- It looks like he bought a bunch of people's property for pennies on the dollar, then raised funds from those same people to return their goods to them, then had them trucked across the country in shipping containers to be dropped at this derelict 'warehouse'.

- He claims to be solo creating a viable fusion reactor, which appears to be one of the umpteen intended uses of this warehouse

- Wonders why the town council isn't trying to help him, when in one of his own tweets admits that he didn't even bother to attend the meeting that was going to hear his issue.

- Thinks snipers are stealing from him.

- Apparently held a man at gunpoint

- Alleges, openly on the internet, that he's storing all sorts of valuable equipment and music media at this warehouse while admitting he isn't even in the state a good chunk of the time

- Tried to run for mayor of Provo, UT (population 117k) so he could "disincorporate the city"

- the whole benforbars thing

- Complaining about the inability to install minecraft on anything other than a linux machine (?)

- Various email/server complaints

Yeahhhh

Re:Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote w... by pontifier on Monday August 15, 2022 @05:39PM (#32475755)
It's very interesting to see how the things I've put out there are interpreted.

It feels like looking at myself in a fun-house mirror. There are probably huge pieces of these events that I'm not communicating well, or at all.

Thank you for your comment. I'll try to be better at communicating the meanings I intend.

Re:Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote w... by matt-attack on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @01:59AM (#32479633)
FWIW you don't seem that unhinged to me. Best of luck in that town.
Re:Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote w... by myhumbleopinion on Monday August 15, 2022 @07:35PM (#32477089)
You still don’t see it?! Stop with the defensive attitude and just listen. There is value in listening to what is going on around you. Put your ego aside and realize that at least some of what is occurring is not just someone else’s fault.
Re:Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote w... by phpnode on Monday August 15, 2022 @06:08PM (#32476099)
I don't think you're being particularly charitable in this thread - at the very least you're misrepresenting what he's said publicly.