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Palantir CEO gives $180,000 to New Hampshire river hermit whose home burned down
CNBC ^ | 20 Aug 2021 | Samantha Subin

Posted on 08/20/2021 9:56:32 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Palantir CEO Alexander Karp has donated $180,000 to a New Hampshire hermit who has garnered media attention in recent weeks after the cabin he was living in burned down.

The money was a personal donation from Karp

“How can I express myself and my gratitude towards something like that? I start to tear up whenever I think about it,” Lidstone told the Concord Monitor of Karp’s donation. “For an old logger who always had to work, for anyone to give you that type of money, it’s incredibly difficult for me to get my head around.”

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1 posted on 08/20/2021 9:56:32 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

What the Karp?

What’s an 80 year old want with $180,000


2 posted on 08/20/2021 10:10:13 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
What’s an 80 year old want with $180,000

To pay his income taxes ?
3 posted on 08/20/2021 10:12:21 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: Responsibility2nd
What’s an 80 year old want with $180,000?

One hell of weekend in Vegas?

4 posted on 08/20/2021 10:13:59 AM PDT by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The vultures are already circling.


5 posted on 08/20/2021 10:16:24 AM PDT by Track9 (Liberalism is a far worse virus. )
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To: Covenantor

Hi.

“What’s an 80 year old want with $180,000?

One hell of weekend in Vegas?”

These days, I couldn’t spend half of that, and if I did, you would probably find me at the morgue on Monday.

5.56mm


6 posted on 08/20/2021 10:18:29 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

there waas an article abotu a ‘hermit’ a week or so ago- but i don’t think his ‘home’ burned down? He was just being kicked off because there was no access road and no plumbing/septic, and because the owner wanted him off the land


7 posted on 08/20/2021 10:40:37 AM PDT by Bob434
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sorry- meant ot ask- is this the same fella?


8 posted on 08/20/2021 10:40:59 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

Same guy. His cabin “mysteriously” burned down while he was in jail.


9 posted on 08/20/2021 10:43:07 AM PDT by fidelis (Defeatism and despair are like poison to men's souls. If you can't be positive, at least be quiet.)
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To: fidelis

DANG! Do you know if they have any suspects? I am betting that noone will ever be charged-


10 posted on 08/20/2021 10:47:57 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

Last I heard there were no suspects.


11 posted on 08/20/2021 10:49:01 AM PDT by fidelis (Defeatism and despair are like poison to men's souls. If you can't be positive, at least be quiet.)
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He was just being kicked off because there was no access road and no plumbing/septic, and because the owner wanted him off the land.

The owner did not even know he was there, until a zoning officer from the town informed him of the hermit's existence, and said it might be trouble for the owner because of zoning violations.

Zoning is how local elites exert tyrannical control.

12 posted on 08/20/2021 10:50:53 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: Responsibility2nd
What’s an 80 year old want with $180,000

Buy his own property in the woods or rebuild at one of the 20 locations that have been offered to him?

13 posted on 08/20/2021 10:52:15 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Being an old dirt bag pays off!


14 posted on 08/20/2021 11:11:05 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE )
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To: fidelis

Ya think maybe the owner decided to do some land clearing on his own property? Seems to me he’d be within the law.


15 posted on 08/20/2021 11:13:54 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE )
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Could be, although he’d also risk burning up a bunch of his timber in what is supposed to be a scenic area. As far as I know, he’s not a suspect so far.


16 posted on 08/20/2021 11:43:15 AM PDT by fidelis (Defeatism and despair are like poison to men's souls. If you can't be positive, at least be quiet.)
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To: Bob434

Yes, it burned down while he was in jail. I don’t think I have seen a cause named yet.


17 posted on 08/20/2021 11:59:49 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Responsibility2nd

“What’s an 80 year old want with $180,000”

The same thing a 73 year old (me) or you would want with $180K

Exchange it for various other things more useful than bits of paper.


18 posted on 08/20/2021 11:59:51 AM PDT by BwanaNdege (-)
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To: BwanaNdege

The same thing a 73 year old (me) or you would want with $180K

Exchange it for toilet paper? lol (because of the ‘pandemic’ toilet paper shortage )


19 posted on 08/20/2021 12:06:09 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Maybe with his free handout he won’t go around mooching off others all the time.


20 posted on 08/20/2021 12:08:45 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say )
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