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Have you noticed that these days when time travellers grab you by the shoulders and ask what year it is, when you reply "2024" they no longer say "Thank God. I'm not too late"?

Court Cantrell will not comply

@rgarner What's worse is when you say 2024 and they break down in tears of joy, saying, "Oh, it worked! It worked! It's all so much better now!"

@courtcan ah, the absolute worst: libertarian timelords

@rgarner Half a tick, looking for the nearest Dumpster... 😆🖖

@rgarner @courtcan

So which timeline did they come from...?

One of the timelines where the planet was destroyed in a nuclear war? :D

@courtcan @rgarner
This was basically the plot of "Timescape" by Gregory Benford, with the future being 1998.

@dec23k @rgarner Okay, I thought for sure I'd seen a movie of that, but apparently there isn't one. So I really need to read this novel. Thanks for the (inadvertent?) recommendation! 😄

@dec23k @courtcan "Remember to smile a lot, John Renfrew thought moodily. People seemed to like that. They never wondered why you kept on smiling, no matter what was said. It was a kind of general sign of good will, he supposed, one of the tricks he could never master."

Oh fuck they've got *my* number

@courtcan @rgarner
Don't go near the Wikipedia page if you want to enjoy reading the book (especially if you haven't read it before).

Not only does it spoiler most of the plot, it explains a lot of elements that the reader is supposed to work out the hard way.