I bought a safe. wtf do I need a safe for?

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      I love worldbuilding and lore, even for franchises I’m not otherwise invested in. In 2018 I devoured every wiki article and YT video I could on 40K. I thought the AdMech was a really cool faction (still do, actually ⚙️💀) and looked into the models. Nope. I’m not paying that much for a sprew full of plastic that I’ll inevitably mess up.

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    11 days ago

    I got an entire cake decorating kit. Guess how many times I’ve made cake and icing after the first time.

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    I went over to my old boss’s house one time and saw a car under a cover. He explained that it was a custom ultralight racer built off the chassis to a 1967 Lotus Europa. I was blown away and said that I hadn’t realized he was a car guy.

    He laughed and said “I’m not. Don’t go on ebay drunk.”

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    I got drunk and bought a t-shirt on eBay.

    It featured a rainbow unicorn with the text “HAIL SATAN”.

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    Not from my own experience but something most of us witnessed was Musk‘s proposal to buy Twitter. It will never not be funny how drastically he overspent there, then tried to walk back from it but was ultimately ordered to buy it for his offer.

    Some people with bad memory or a broken moral compass will claim he destroyed the platform or turned it into something evil but as we know that wasn‘t the case. Because it was already awful long before that. Remember the never ending headlines of „Trump tweeted“ between 2015 and 2021? Well now you do.

    Xitter was always shit but at least more and more people are talking about it now. And that purchase was definitely the most batshit insane impulse buy I have ever witnessed.

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      I was on Twitter somewhere in 2009 I think, and I agree, it was shit then.

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    A high quality love doll. I believe I paid 1600 bucks for it. Used it for about six months while my depression was at its worst. That was a year ago. How the f does one discard a love doll?!

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    A rubber egg. Sold at an odds-and-ends booth at a teaching fair, this egg looks like a real, brown-shelled chicken egg. More than once I’ve dropped this “egg” in front of people while cooking.

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      Also have one. I keep placing it among the réal eggs. it got boiled once . wife ans kids triéd to crack it a few times. Latest win was placing it in my daughter’s makeup kit. It looks a lot l’îke one of her spongy thingy.

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    I bought a really nice 4k high 200hz gaming monitor right when I started falling out of love with gaming. I don’t want to sell it because I still hop on to game with the buds about once a week.

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    Buddy living on a friends couch dropped $8k on a Hayabusa despite having no idea how to ride a bike at all and the town this took place in having no paved roads. Financed the thing too. Kinda wonder where he ended up sometimes

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    Depends on the type of safe. There are safes that protect primarily against theft, and those, that are better against fire. Use the latter to store your documents. Or your backups.

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      Make sure the ones that protect against fire also protect against water. The 2 features are not always guaranteed to come together.

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        All while the threats come together when the firefighters drown your house, indeed. Watertight sillicon bags for harddrives come to your rescue.

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        Even that isn’t guaranteed. House fires can get hot enough to burn the paper inside a safe even if the safe itself is “fine”.

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        That’s something to keep in mind but I think that’s changing a bit. Lots of commercial grade safes now say they’re good for electronics.

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    I bought ten of these. Somewhat out of impulse, but I also needed a few more dollars in my order for free shipping. My older son and me love hiding these around the house.

    Edit: I don’t endorse the message on the site I linked, part of the fun is that everybody knows I’m not religious at all.