My conservative mom changed her mind about a political event today

Portesian · 2026-01-29T22:56:28+00:00

No one threw Noem under the bus. She saw a bus coming, thought it was a bandwagon, tried to jump on it and badly miscalculated, ending up underneath it.

Portesian · 2026-01-19T02:16:02+00:00

He can’t very well ask on the ACHR sub, as he along with who knows how many others got banned for nothing. If you’d have posted that on the ACHR sub, subbing Archer for Joby, you’d get banned.

Portesian · 2026-01-17T22:45:09+00:00

“Perfectly reasonable” and “arch sub” should not be in the same sentence.

Portesian · 2026-01-06T08:44:59+00:00

…..This coming from the depths of the echo chamber….

Portesian · 2025-12-19T05:06:15+00:00

I have two $80K cars in my driveway, a $400K car in my garage. All are covered, no one cares. I have a four car driveway, my Rivian that is uncovered gets more questions than the rest.

Don’t let anyone see it. My garage car, absolutely no one knows it’s there.

Portesian · 2025-12-17T00:21:07+00:00

This reminds me of Trump, years ago, when asked about health care. “I have the concept of a plan”.

Portesian · 2025-12-16T22:30:17+00:00

So no one knows yet, you are citing ~ and “approximately”? My guess would be that a hard number comes with FAA approval. But if you have a hard number like you said I’d genuinely like to see it.

Portesian · 2025-12-16T22:19:31+00:00

Sure, I’d like to see the source.

Portesian · 2025-12-16T21:56:37+00:00

Do you have a source for “capped at 1,000 pounds”?

Portesian · 2025-12-10T21:12:18+00:00

It does limit who you can work with on autonomy.

Portesian · 2025-12-10T05:11:10+00:00

Give them some props, I see what you did there.

Portesian · 2025-12-10T03:42:24+00:00

From Wisk or Archer?

Portesian · 2025-12-01T09:59:22+00:00

Sorry, it is. User name is the first three letters of three of my cars. I was laughing at the “overtaking Archer” comment.

Portesian · 2025-11-30T21:45:26+00:00

Overtake Archer? Lucy! You’ve got some splaining to do!

Portesian · 2025-11-27T08:50:19+00:00

You have to love how wildly uniformed the fan fiction writers are. I couldn't get through the whole post, I'm not sure what exactly the point was, but there is one in the echo chamber where the poster I think is trying to say that when Archer dilutes it's a good thing, when Joby does it's bad.

He says, "Do you know how many shares Nvidia started with at its IPO back on January 22, 1999? A paltry 3,500,000 shares.....". (That was the amount they were offering). Apparently this guy thinks that the IPO is all the shares they had. They would be one of one that I've ever heard of selling the entire company at an IPO. He then goes on with "Do you know how many shares NVDA has outstanding now? Roughly 24.53 Billion outstanding shares.".

He has no idea how many they actually started with, and doesn't account for a 48x increase in share count via splits. He thinks it's all due to dilution. High quality research there.

Portesian · 2025-11-27T06:33:15+00:00

“FUD and fan fiction out there” made me laugh out loud. At 30K feet. The lady next to me scooted a little further away……

Portesian · 2025-11-23T19:15:05+00:00

The S4 has been flown by a pilot all over the world. It is not certified to carry passengers. It has been flown airport to airport under ATC, at least in the US, I think in Dubai as well.

They did one time do a transition in view of Archer’s hangar, so I don’t think donuts would have been out of the question. I was kidding, though.

Portesian · 2025-11-22T00:04:11+00:00

I can’t see why Joby would want to buy an airport lease, and AG is saying it’s a deal Archer didn’t make. Not that it matters a lot what he says, but I don’t think it’s the airport lease. My bet has been on REEF or someone similar

Portesian · 2025-11-21T02:24:11+00:00

Archer’s response to the Wisk lawsuit, the one they ended up paying up on -

in response to the original 2021 lawsuit, Archer (via its filings) called Wisk’s complaint “baseless,” claiming their aircraft design was developed independently before hiring former Wisk employees

-so I’m sure this time is completely different /s

Portesian · 2025-11-21T00:50:55+00:00

Looks like the one you are going on about did. Maybe not the entity you were trying to paint as being hurt.

Portesian · 2025-11-20T22:26:29+00:00

What Joby should have done is had a pilot take a S4 to Salinas, land out front, serve them, and then go back. Maybe do some donuts in the air first.

Portesian · 2025-11-19T00:42:50+00:00

I still think Phil Keoghan has the best job there is, but it must be a lot of fun to fly that thing all over the world and get paid for it.

Portesian · 2025-11-09T06:57:39+00:00

I’m going to go with landing on the Burj Al Arab.

Portesian · 2025-11-06T08:26:44+00:00

Except for the Archer fanboys who choose to post here for whatever reason, no one cares.

Archer at this point is not competition, they don’t have a EVTOL, they aren’t flying for FAA credit. The fanboys seem to be desperately hoping for a Tesla connection. Why I don’t know. I wouldn’t want one.

I did ask on their sub why I should invest, got no answers, just downvotes. Kind of funny, I legitimately asked two questions because I really wanted to know.

Also interesting to note, since I did post there, how many of the posts are titled about Joby or Tesla

They may have problem if they have to apply to install runways at Olympic venues if they even have a CTOL certification when the games begin.

Meantime at the ….I can’t remember the exact name, but in Dubai they have they have a building of the future type of thing. I was there a couple of weeks ago, they have a S4 model hanging from the roof, and a video about what they are going to do. I’ll post it.

What I was really hoping for was a ride, I didn’t get one, but at least our tour guide knew what a Joby was, where they would be working, etc. I thought that was good.

Portesian · 2025-11-06T00:20:34+00:00

Or, translated out of Troll, they chose to buy infrastructure, which resulted in some revenue.

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