This is a plot point in The Accidental Time Machine: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21608.The_Accidental_Time_Machine; the main character
jumps forward into the future a bunch of times, longer jumps each time, and hits a time where the human population is almost gone, and they’re like “yeah, the fucking time travelers keep showing up and bringing old diseases”:::
We’re using them. The problem is they aren’t replacing fossil fuels. Instead of a polluting coal plant, you have a polluting coal plant and a bunch of solar panels and wind turbines that were manufactured, transported, built from mined substances. It’s better than building another coal plant, but it’s not solving climate change. Power demand grows to use the available supply.
Also canonically Oscar is orange, and he turned green from algae after visiting a damp swamp on vacation.
Yeah, in an article talking about how news stories about crime often show pictures of tents, they pointed out that the photo is of a crime scene, but the crime was not committed by those living in the tents.
Lingo was amazing! My husband and I played through it together; he’s better at 3d navigation so he navigated, and I’m better at word games, and we had a blast. We should try some of the custom maps!
What do you mean? It’s still the owners’ decision whether to sell.
Maybe the owners care more about running a sustainable company that makes good games than they do about getting a bunch of money.
Or unwrapped them at parties to see what was inside.
The words were in the text of a (real) headline shown in the video.