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latexr02/19/20251 replyview on HN

> it's all a sideshow to me, aside from the crazy tariffs and nuclear threat parts, etc.

So it’s all a sideshow to you, apart from the threats to your life and way of living? Those seem kind of important to wave off.

I’m also not American, but I have no illusions that what happens there won’t have consequences for the rest of the world.


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defrost02/19/2025

> the threats to your life and way of living?

minor at best given my age, location, and general setup.

I was probably in more danger in Rajasthan on 11 May 1998 when India suprise detonated three nukes within our visual horizon and impounded our aircraft on landing.

Risk is relative.

My father is down the hall watching TV ATM, he was born in 1935 and caught rabbits and such to feed his younger borothers and sisters when his father went off to WWII, Singapore fell amd trade in and out of the state ceased for a few years.

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