Note from the Editor:
Earning my first degrees wrapped up with a Master’s in I.T. after I’d chosen to live the life of a fugitive fleeing to the northernmost Rockies. As before, the uneducated losers gave me a little shit about it, trying to convince me I spent too much time in my room, and was ‘getting fat’ because of it, apparently unable to grasp simple concepts like 1) no I fucking wasn’t, and 2) earning a fucking college degree takes some fucking time. It’s amazing how outspoken the dumbest people are, and how little the wise ever say, knowing there is little point in speaking in a world that doesn’t know how to understand or even listen.
I now had degrees that I would try to use to get better jobs. I had a ton of knowledge and self-discipline that went with them. I had some semblance of a network of alumni who had attended the same universities and programs. …I had nothing.
Degrees lose a lot of their value when 1) you are forced to relocate to areas that don’t have many jobs at all in the field you just studied and mastered, 2) you don’t know anyone in the brand-new area you just planted yourself in, and 3) you happened to’ve attended a university that just got caught up in nationwide scam against all its students that multiple news organizations are now reporting on. Even if people hadn’t assumed all the students of that latest university I’d attended hadn’t been taught well enough to be considered for positions and fair pay, I was still reduced to accepting work nailing shingles and washing dishes. Ouch.
I still put what I learned in my degree programs to good use; it has helped me prepare the website and other techie things that make this magazine and all the rest of Inisfree possible. They also helped me type even faster than I could before, which has impressed more than a few coworkers, friends, and bosses. At times, they seemed to have helped get my foot a little more in the door for management and administrative positions, but I still haven’t managed to get a single computer-related or I.T.-only job with them.
Will I go back to school again, get another degree, or finally get those certifications to go with them? Sure, …but I’m taking a little (indefinite) break from all that. It was a serious kick in the balls. I should be making six figures by now, having studied that many things for that long, proving myself in a million different ways a million times over. I’m lucky if I make minimum wage. This is America.
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- Earthship: a type of house (style of architecture) in which recycled materials are used, the side facing the path of the Sun is a greenhouse, the other walls retain the collected heat, and all water and energy needs are met by the structure, needing no connection to traditional human city services
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Light Matrices Replacing Silicon Microchips: microchips replaced vacuum tubes and other aging technologies, and now photonics promise to usher in the end of electronics
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Poking Fun at Fake News:
Another fundamental that begins to become apparent when reviewing all this fake news, the fake fact-checking, and the logic explaining the motivations behind it, is that it reveals humanity, at its most basic core level, is nothing but a self-defeating attempt to undo, defeat, or kill all it encounters; everyone calls everyone else fake, while being fake themselves, and they end/kill all the plants around them to make their homes and food, and all the animals to make their clothes and more “food”, and themselves, even just by reproducing the way they do; NOTHING they do or ‘put out there’ is anything OTHER than fake,
so it seems they are inCApable of anything else, so we don’t even NEED to do any fact-checking, realizing this; if a human says it is news, it is fake from the start, even if they believe (or WANT to believe) it.
Want to hear/read that in a more objective way unrelated to any particular species or culture? Try this: Everything in nature keeps moving, keeps taking and changing things, and uses camouflage to lie about its location as often as possible, constantly if possible. Things do not all get along, thus they learn how to deceive each other, such as by misdirection. Humans, having developed more ways of existing and interacting, naturally developed more ways of faking others out. Perhaps it is in all our natures, …and perhaps those beings who are members of the most-advanced civilizations… make the most fake things, including the most fake news.
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