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On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 09:46:49 -0700,  Alan says...  

> 
> On 2025-08-18 17:06, AlleyCat wrote:
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> > On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 08:47:15 -0700,  Alan says...
> > 
> >>> Joby is a California-based company building quiet, all-electric
> >>> aircraft to connect people like never before. With up to 100 miles
> >>> of range and the ability to take off and land vertically, the Joby
> >>> aircraft will change the way we move while reducing the acoustic and
> >>> CLIMATE FOOTPRINT OF FLIGHT.
> > 
> >> Marketing. Plain and simple.
> > 
> > So... the Earth does NOT need saving!
> 
> I didn't say that.

LOL... po wittle lakehouse rich boy... hates when it's done to him, but keeps on doing it to others.
 
> Joby Aviation trying to appeal to people doesn't mean the earth doesn't 
> need saving.

The Earth does NOT need saving.

The planet is fine. Compared to the people, the planet is doing great. 
Been here four and a half billion years. Did you ever think about the 
arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We've 
been here, what, a hundred thousand? Maybe two hundred thousand? And we've 
only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. 

Two hundred years versus four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT 
to think that somehow we're a threat? That somehow we're gonna put in 
jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that's just a-floatin' 
around the sun?

The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, 
volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, 
magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles... hundreds of 
thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, 
worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, 
recurring ice ages... And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum 
cans are going to make a difference? The planet... the planet... the 
planet isn't going anywhere. We are!

Pack your shit, folks. We're going away. And we won't leave much of a 
trace, either. Thank God for that. Maybe a little Styrofoam. Maybe. A 
little Styrofoam. The planet'll be here and we'll be long gone. Just 
another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An 
evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet'll shake us off like a bad case of 
fleas. A surface nuisance.

You wanna know how the planet's doing? Ask those people at Pompeii, who 
are frozen into position from volcanic ash, how the planet's doing. You 
wanna know if the planet's all right, ask those people in Mexico City or 
Armenia or a hundred other places buried under thousands of tons of 
earthquake rubble, if they feel like a threat to the planet this week. Or 
how about those people in Kilowaia, Hawaii, who built their homes right 
next to an active volcano, and then wonder why they have lava in the 
living room.

The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we're gone, and 
it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, 'cause that's what it does. 
It's a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover

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Are YOU going to lobby to have your precious go-kart series ended, because they burn fossil fuels?

Hypocrite.

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All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike 
of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into 
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The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a 
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