Note from the Editor:
Down-periscope near Canada is what came next; while I was settling in near the border of that nation to the north, I had to keep a low profile, lest I get noticed and sent back to the corrupt southern states for more abusive ‘processing’. ‘Down periscope’ is when the pipe-like looking-glass of a submarine is lowered, thereby making it easier to sneak around, nothing up above the surface of the water betraying it. You can’t see what’s out there when your periscope is down and locked inside your ship, but you learn to work with other forms of sensing, detection, and inference.
I probably stayed down-periscope for months this first round, and would surely be down-periscope for many more in the years ahead. I hadn’t really or fully been able to as a youth, except those times I’d had to run away from home to avoid violent abuse and alcohol poisoning, so I didn’t really know how to do it very well, but I was trying, and I would learn. It turned out to be easier than it sounds; you just take a normal job and get paid in cash, you rent a room instead of an apartment with a lease, you don’t register or re-register your vehicle, and you don’t tell anyone the parts of your story that could result in them contacting any more corrupt authorities.
To those who knew me during this time, I seemed like any other guy just working a shit job and doing his best to hang out and enjoy the mountains. I was chill, I helped people out, I tried bars and restaurants, and I dressed like those I saw. If only they knew how much pressure I was under, and that my thoughts were plagued by wondering if I’d be able to pull off having stood up for myself against a gigantic monster of an organization that had people just about everywhere. …Maybe the rest of them were going through that, too, though, and one day… we’ll all be able to talk to each other about it, laughing at how we’d all thought we were fucked and alone.
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- 39 Kings: the 39 human men selected by the Governor of Inisfree to rule the cleaned-up Earth from 2013 until the time of the mega-cities (of the Judge Dredd comics); ~2100-2300 A.D.
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Light-based Propulsion: using lasers and other light sources to push new spacecraft has become possible, and may mean both 1) an end to propulsion/combustion-based Space launches, and 2) the necessity for reactors and void-energy harvesters
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A little relief comes from this post. More young people are wisening up to the fact that most journalism is absolutely fake. Most who claim to be professionals… aren’t… at all.
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