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Now I try to let it go. In a Zen/stoic way, knowing that nothing will happen if I don't read something.

Wha?!

I download every movie and book I can. The more rare the better. I know, deep in my heart, they must be saved from dead torrent links.

Even deeper nestled in the depths of my endlessly deep heart, I know that if there is a disaster, that government agency which tracks all, knows this, and I am on a list.

A list to be saved!

"Grab that guy and his raids", and so on. If nuclear war happens, save the leaders, the scientists, and that damned geek.

Sure, they could break that triple ciphered encryption, even with the custom callback to a helmet + a reading of my tranquil brainwaves, but why risk a bazillion hours of video, text, and OSS source code on that?

Instead, snag me and my stuff they will, plague, zombies, war, etc.

But if I stop collecting, if I stop organizing!? I hear the conversation.

"Who's on the media snag list", but as my name is to be spoken, "Oh.. he stopped downloading" and No!, I am left to burn and die.

How do you stand it?



Ah a fellow archiver - don't listen to them! We must preserve at all costs!

I wish you abundant storage redundancy.


Keep fighting the good fight my man!




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