So last night I fucked up. I was in my terminal in ~/.ssh when suddenly I noticed two certificates called "~" and "~.pub". I tried deleting "~" using rm. It said that it was a directory. I thought I symlinked my home folder to the .ssh directory and decided to execute "rm -rf ~". The lesson is that if you need to delete a file named "~" you need to refer to the file in quotes or refer to it as an absolute path such as "~/.ssh/~", or just use the finder. Luckily I have backblaze. The downside is that it takes forever to download over 125 gb of backups from a shitty Comcast connection.