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[–] 103 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

Maybe time travel is real but we're still living at an age where something else is so terrible that nobody from the future wants to travel to our time.

I bet it's because we haven't invented those three seashells yet.

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  • [–] 59 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    "they still capitalist then? Eww. I'll wait"

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    As much as capitalism is a truly shit system to actually live in, I don’t think it would dissuade time travellers much because it’d make it trivially easy to live like a king with only a little knowledge of the future

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I guess people from a post capitalist society might have issues with exploiting others for their own gain.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago*

    One would hope, but unless greed and the obsession with power is not in our genes there would always be people that try to exploit others. Just like there will always be others trying to end the exploitation.

    Imo, better systems and fair work agreements are how we put a stop to most exploitation being acted upon.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Time Travel to the past

    Cough due to allergies to future extinct flowers

    Accidentally spready COVID 2089

    90% of the world population dies from futuristic killer super flu

    You fade from existence because you killed all your ancestors

    The paradox causes space time to collapse

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Timelines merged together to "mend and fix" these paradoxes, that’s why we ended in the Mirror-Universe equivalent. Mandela effects are just glitches from the other timeline remnants.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Maybe they didn't come to Stephen Hawkins' party because they found out that he was a pedo.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Even without that (or if he wasn't, was it clear from what came out that he participated and wasn't just another famous science guy Epstein pulled into his orbit without any kids being involved?), I can't think of a single good reason for an actual time traveler to want to go to that party and plenty reasons to stay away from it, like it being the one party most likely to lead to someone else figuring out time travel sooner and taking control of it before you can.

    Though if time travel is possible, I bet it's the branching miltiverse scenario and we're just in a branch where no time travelers have revealed themselves yet. In that reality, there's no reason to avoid his party, other than not wanting to be stuck in a Q&A session with primitive humans. Like I bet any of us would get frustrated going back to the middle ages and how people interested in health won't shut up about fucking humours, muccous, evil spirits, and shit.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    Like I bet any of us would get frustrated going back to the middle ages and how people interested in health won’t shut up about fucking humours, muccous, evil spirits, and shit.

    For real. If we wanted to listen to that, we could just look up whatever RFK Jr's talking about. No time machine necessary.

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