@neo @caekislove @Hoss @Dagnar

> How do you cope with the fact that an earthquake can happen at any time with almost no warning?

Sudden awful stuff can hit anywhere at any time with no warning. You could have an aneurysm. Phineas Gage shit. Lightning bolts. A drunk driver that is also senile plows through the front of the cafe where you are sipping tea. We have bobcats here, despite the proximity to downtown, and they don't attack people but anything can get rabies. Nukes could land, a nuclear dirty bomb could go off, I could have a heart attack, I could step on a snake's tail and get a couple of poisoned punctures as retaliation, some "WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY, KENNETH?!" motherfucker could jump me like they did with Dan Rather. None of these things require a coping mechanism: if you cannot do anything about something, if you cannot influence it one way or the other, what's the point worrying about it?

You know, there was that woman in the midwest, a meteor falls through her roof, lands on her, breaks her hip, then the government shows up, declares that they own the meteor, and refuse to pay for her medical bills or roof repairs. How does anyone cope with anything?

It helps that I cannot die, nor can I ever be killed, but you know, most people don't die suddenly without warning.