4/8/2024
While things are getting better a lot of things are still a trainwreck on my end.
While my cat has responded to the thyroid medication, she can’t take it as a pill which is the prime reason for all of her side effects (including being vomity as all hell)
So the mighty 15 year old furball is going to be getting a topical gel in her ears, and is on anti-nausea medication and a reduced dose of the pills until she can get on the gel.
That’s one thing that’s getting better…on the other hand, the day after I posted my message about things going on pause, an elderly family member banged themselves up in a fall and is still recovering.
So we are still in wait and see mode over here. When we know more, you’ll know more. š
Educational General Academic Research Unit aka āEdgarā is part of the first production line of non-limited Artificial Intelligenceās. He is currently one of the House Tindal researchers, and is Professor Gageās second-in-command. Also one of the members of the Crystal One development team.
House Tindal. Physicist, Head of the Crystal One development team and all around curious man. A late term cancer patient, Dr. Gage heads out to Bellisarius Territory to settle his own curiosity about some flaws in the eyewitness reports. He now finds himself spending the last days of his life with his reformed team of Crystal One scientists in an attempt to prevent the literal end of the world.
I’d been wondering about the apparent lack of xenophobia in this world’s human culture. It makes sense, what with regular contact with the Threllichok and the Tareg. I would imagine xenophobes still exist, but as a small minority who are mostly laughed at or pitied if they make their views known. Something like Fred Phelps and his ilk in our world, only more so.
Still, considering how deeply tribalism has marked human history, I have to wonder how the early history of Requiem might have really gone. Perhaps Clarence is going by the “official” account of how first contact with the Threllichok went down, and there were “incidents” that never made it into the records. Our regrettable treatment of our own kind makes me pessimistic that we’d do that much better on meeting non-humans.
Official account indeed. There have been a few accidents. Especially in the days leading up to the Threllichock and humans first meeting “officially”. Heck, the first notice the Threllichock had of House humans was when the Threllichock ate one who got too close to a northern hive.
Still, considering how deeply tribalism has marked human history, I have to wonder how the early history of Requiem might have really gone. Perhaps Clarence is going by the “official” account of how first contact with the Threllichok went down, and there were “incidents” that never made it into the records. Our regrettable treatment of our own kind makes me pessimistic that we’d do that much better on meeting non-humans.