Argentina probably. Generally the southern hemisphere is pretty safe. Nobody's wasting nukes on brown people, except maybe Israel.
Every time Russia suffers a big military loss, they start doing massive attacks on civilians to distract from that. FTFY
How are you copying them? It could potentially be faster to use rsync. You can try mounting with noatime as a flag as well.
Climate changeBuilding a city in the desertBuilding houses in fire prone areas from wood and oil productsProbably some asshole flicking a cigarette out their car window
Drone us all down and live happily ever after with their army of robot servants. Asimov wrote a book about the outcome. The Naked Sun.
Bishops take off diagonally to the new world to find other boards to civilize.