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Lawyer, friends/family, cloud storage, or safety deposit box all seem like viable normal options.

To be extra safe. 6 hard drives (each with a copy of the files, and four stacks of Blu-ray disks (each with a copy of the files). Divide these into at least two yeti coolers (include a large silica gel pack just in case), and bury the coolers as deep as possible in the woods.

Scenario I've been playing with:

Suppose you are kidnapped by two people. They tell you that one of them will shoot you and then let you go, but you get to decide who shoots. Person A says he will shoot you in the head. Person B says he will shoot you in the shoulder. Which do you choose?

The more think about this the more I like it. Both persons are clearly awful and contributed to the situation. Both could offer better choices but refuse. Both are rather similar in outcomes. But one is clearly worse.

Is it rational to choose to be shot at all? Is it rational to not choose the better of two alternatives?

The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if the plan is to run up a massive debt now and then push the responsibility for dealing with that debt onto democrats if they win control after midterms.

What if the cause is a chronic disease or just old age?

Might be funny to get within 50 meters of an execution and bring the person back.

Could probably use this to start a cult.

Worst case is get caught by a billionare who starts mass killing people for me to heal to maximize the odds his life is extended.

This happened with the shift from manual to automatic transmissions. I used to frequently hear/read people complaining that no one knows how to drive a stick anymore.

Cue music: "It's the circle of life"

Put it on the shelf with the other one

Only Cybertrucks, since vandalizing those can only improve the vehicle.

According to Yale's website their operating budget is about 6 billion of which 2 billion comes from the endowment. That seems a bit low, but they are probably putting some money back into the endowment to grow it further.

I'm not saying they couldn't afford to keep this one class (surely they could) but funding the whole operation with just the endowment would fail in the long term.

Something about this feels different and maybe "fresher" than the last several marvel movies. The styling, color composition, music, etc. I'm more interested than I expected.

I used to think the Anne Frank quote was inspiring. Now I just see it as bitterly ironic.

A third term implies the constitution is still in place and don't see them passing an amendment without doing something ridiculous like creating a bunch of extra states.

Far easier to just never end the second term. Claim a national emergency and suspend elections/the constitution.

Why don't they compromise and only count them as 3/5

I'm old enough to realize most everything will either need to be replaced or given up as lifestyles change, but young enough not to count random stuff I happen to have.

Some really precious things I'll keep forever, but don't really use.

Just looking around the house and thinking, will I have any of this in my last years is sobering.

That said there are a few knickknacks I'm likely to keep since they are small and easy to keep up with. Maybe my collection of old Christmas albums. A few ornaments. A few Keychain. Deploymas....

Sadly, I worry the US needs to suffer badly if there is to be any hope of embracing real progress in the future.

I was curious and checked while shopping today. There weren't any, just a bare shelf.

Ah, but there would be another where someone anticipated this and figured out how to stop it.

Of course that then suggests a universe where a madman figured out how to destroy the multiverse and keep it from being stopped, and one where a dogooder anticipated that...

Such a multiverse could end up existing in a state of indeterminate existance. Like a certain cat...