She seems awesome! How badly is she going to lose to the gun wielding psychopath? 60-40?
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Yeah itās problem. Making music is still probably my best escape from it because it requires 100% attention at all times. Drawing / painting fill that gap too but is more relaxing and doesnāt require my brain to be fully on. Even things like working out I start to get bored and will wander off to check my phone or something. Weāre not far off from all living generations being in that mode.
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I grew up reading and doing all the good stuff as a kid. But then cable TV fried my brain starting around age 13. Iād spend hours just flipping channels every few seconds, land on something interesting, watch till commercial, start flipping again.
I always said you could tell the kids who grew up with vs. without cable in college. The non-cable kids could focus a lot better, but were bad at multi-tasking.
Dude I look at my phone and check this site and shit when I walk around the warehouse. Itās all bad.
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Message boards and social media have replaced churches and religion. (Iām not saying we all need to go to church but the people who do provide balance)
I long for the days when reading was the single most fun thing you could do. I still remember the smell of erasers being a fetish. A book fair would make it hard for me to sleep.
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I think this is why I think so much more clearly on walks. When the weather is nice I take the dog for a walk on the trail by my house before work for about 45 minutes, and by the time Iām back Iāve got about 3 good ideas for work and I rush to get them acted on before Iām back to clicking around the dozens of stimuli Iāve got going at my workstation. I probably get 80% of my productivity achieved daily on that 45 minutes of thinking plus an hour of work.
I flyfish for the same reason. Itās one of the few things I do that requires most of my physical focus when Iām out there, though it does allow for a lot of ābrainā time for thinking and reflecting.
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I donāt think Iāve had an original thought outside of my shower in 10 years
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you can still go to book fairs. those are still a thing
Sometimes I bring a stool into my shower with a beer and just sit and think. Weird? Probably. Donāt care itās relaxing.
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Friday morning after Billy night 1 I stumbled into the basement shower at my friendsā house hungover af and it had a seat. Exactly what I needed!
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Yeah same here. I walk 20-30 miles/week. But I do spend a lot of that listening to Chiefs podcasts, which doesnāt exactly stimulate my brain.
But I can tell my brain just craves getting out of the house and off the internet. I have to do it once a day, even if itās just a short walk on the beach.
Counterpoint : The world is shit because nice people pander far too much to loonies.
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Dems finally get a win, but of course it has nothing to do with anything they actually did
He didnāt get ratioed. So heāll probably win.
JD is such a piece of shit. So glad Chapo excoriated his ass.
The Ohio deplorables have fully turned on Lebron. That tweet will help him in the primary, or atleast wonāt hurt him.
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Iām seeing constant Mandel ads that are just clips of JD Vance telling everyone heās an anti-Trumper. This seems like it ought to be a blowout.
Vance is going nowhere.
Sure, heād win a general election, but he aināt getting that far. Mandel is a much more authentic deplorable.
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