No I hear you, but I’m guessing you’re imagining taking your current recreational focus and intensity toward politics and adding a political job on top of it. Whereas if politics were your job, you’d probably spend more of your time here in Sundry Chitchat. Assuming you didn’t stop posting here entirely.
I get the fear that you might not be able to turn it off when you go home, but consider this. There really is a huge difference in scratching that political itch and feeling FULFILLED vs posting here dozens of times a day. A lot of us here are compulsive posters precisely because our political outrage feels useful but affects next to nothing at all outside of the people on this message board. It’s the difference in eating candy and being hungrier than you started vs eating a satisfying meal. Or, as skydiver so recently referenced in a book recommendation, it’s the difference in being a political hobbyist and a political activist.
You’ve demonstrated healthy limits when it comes to poker, money management, and your health. I have to think you’d exercise the same self-care in a political occupation.
That sounds like the perfect job for me. I considered getting in to coding several years ago after it being suggested by multiple people. My problem is a poor work ethic on anything I’m not passionate about, but I think I could be successful in coding if it was something I enjoyed. Hmm…
I took programming classes all through high school. It started with basic and we were doing c++ by the end. Maybe I was just dumb at that point and it would be easier now but it seemed like a ton of work to get a computer to do the most menial tasks.
Are programming languages that much easier 25 years later?
I’m finding the cuse discussion on living expenses interesting and figured it’d be interesting enough to have a separate thread and see what others are paying:
What could you say that even matters? Like let’s say you had 5 mins to tweet some stuff out to try to ruin his re-election chances?
I’d @ someone on his campaign as if it was supposed to be a DM and say something like “Can you believe all these idiots and losers in flyover country actually think I care about them? Sad! Like I’d ever spend a minute in Iowa! And don’t get me started on these dumb evangelicals! Jesus Christ did I grab them by the pussy and make them my bitch!”
I tried to do some basic on my C64 in high school. Got so frustrated with unhelpful syntax errors that I didn’t pick up programming again until I was 29. True story.
It’s a coming-of-age story about a thirty-something accountant named Chris Moneygenerator who luckboxes his way into the WSOP and ultimately wins the title.
“There is something we can do regarding the state of our planet right now. We can hold a collective healing presence for the Coronavirus or covid19. By bringing to mind all the healing power within us to surround every seed and cell of the earth we can send healing energy to the pandemic. When we feel overwhelmed with the state of our earth, we do not have to suffer the feelings of being alone and vulnerable. We can hold the healing presence of light for our earth. Right now.”
Wow. The healing light within me might save the world from this gruesome pandemic, and it only takes ten minutes. I might try it, after I’m done browsing porn.
I think I found it on Craigslist. It wasn’t easy to convince the landlord to overlook my lack of references but some extra upfront cash smoothed things over.
My wife thinks the world will never be the same after all this, that we won’t be going to concerts or movie theaters safely even 10 years from now. Wild times. Glad I don’t own a gym or concert venue.