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applegrove

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20. Yeah. I think it was Thiel who had plans to evacuate to New Zealand

Reply to Kid Berwyn (Reply #18)

Fri Dec 12, 2025, 07:02 PM

Dec 2025

after the event and it occurred to him his pilot might not want to fly there if his family was not invited to escape too on the same plane. How to keep your staff staffing basically. So it was a conundrum.

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