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This makes me want to go to an auction for things abandoned in storage lockers. That is, after all, how Vivian Maier's photographs were discovered.

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Nicely done, Wessie, as usual, even expected! Yeah, there is no finish line. Something that struck me: you talk about declining real estate. This seems to me very British, or at least, not the US. Outside of a few obvious centers, one builds bigger and bigger. So we are our own storage centers, and I personally feel somewhat oppressed by the amount of things I own, not least the few thousand books, loosely organized. So yeah, we rent storage centers because (i) we have EVEN MORE stuf, and (ii) death, divorce, etc. But at least among the affluent classes, the issue is not real estate.

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I've heard it said that whatever size of bag you choose to travel with, you will fill it. Maybe the same now applies to houses. Also, I know someone who has rented storage space for a deceased relative's belongings that he doesn't know what to do with. Another case where people hang on to things because just getting rid of them doesn't feel right.

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The data centers are not only to store the cattle's life (myself included). They will soon be part of the world's supermax according to Stravousla Pabst

https://stavroulapabst.substack.com/p/techxgeopolitics-13-oracles-intelligence

With all that being developed it will be possible to suffer instant punishment administered by AI, if you cross the line, which will not be hard (for the coward it will be easy) given how draconian it's all becoming.

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