i would guess a lot of them make connections over the networks that trade in that kind of material.

Biden trips on stairs, everyone laughs, ”haha old man old." Trump can’t make it up an escalator, “this cannot stand! let’s gas NYC.” these aren’t jokes, it’s their desires that make them feel good.

not to mention all the ai bullshit is offloading it’s power costs into the people connected to the grid. literal leches

caches are never really a concern to me they will regen after the fact, from your description i would worry more about db, this is dependent though in what you’re using and what you are storing. if the concern is having the same system intact then my primary concern would be backing up any config file you have. in cases of failure you mainly want to protect against data loss, if it takes time to regenerate cache/db that’s time well spent for simplicity of actively maintaining your system

my prediction of the dumbest timeline is we just nuke them next year

every time we had a D president, the concern goes away it’s an R in office and then spending goes through the roof.