Our local politicians, like local politicians in many places, despite claiming to be all progressive, seem to be open to AI data centers all over our town. Just as long as they pretend to be nice about quadrupling our electric bills and sucking up all our water. The thing is, I very much like where I live. I do not want these monstrosities across the street and I feel like the people who are making the decisions are just trying to make weak regulations and be like, “Well you know, it’s jobs, what can you do.” I fucking can’t stand it.

I also do not want anything to do with being any kind of public persona. I have zero interest in my face being anywhere, I do not have social media, unless you count this, which I don’t because it has nothing to do with my life or identity in any way. So that would be the downside. I guess the upside would be that it’s a very local election and only a couple of thousand people vote in the primary for this position. But if I’m going to do it, then obviously I have to run an actual campaign which is an extremely unpredictable thing, and if something weird happens, I could lose control of the carefully cultivated life of virtual hermitdom that I presently enjoy.

What do you say, fellow Gen X voters. What would you do??