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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"they still capitalist then? Eww. I'll wait"
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
I guess people from a post capitalist society might have issues with exploiting others for their own gain.
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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
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.
Dragon breaks confirmed, earth is TES canon
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"Eww... I don't want to go to the microplastics era and be contaminated! We spent forever cleaning that shit up."
Maybe they didn't come to Stephen Hawkins' party because they found out that he was a pedo.
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.
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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Or maybe in the 1930s an ad agency invented feeding on people's fears by overstating extremely rare or even nonexistent problems.
My brand of cereal is the only one with that rat poison free guarantee.
Excuse me, do you serve gluten free milk?
WANTED: Someone to go back in time with me. This is not a joke...You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own ~~weapons~~ toilet paper. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before.
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Just take your own toilet roll with you. If you get separated from your supply, you probably have bigger problems.
Growing up in the Soviet Union we had almost pieces of bark in the toilet paper. Never got a splinter I promise.
What was your expirience in the soviet union? Was it as bad as western media says or it was fine/good/not bad?
I can only speak to my own country, Bulgaria. Some things were worse, some things not as bad. Like we had to wait in line for bread every day but most people in my orbit never went without bread, at least that I knew of. I was a little kid so I'm sure they hid that kind of stuff from me. I got bullied a lot, my mom had ADHD and wouldn't pick me up from school on time so the teachers beat me in retaliation. That kind of shit. I remember people coming in from overseas and sneaking me in a coke for Christmas. They'd sneak in western music and religious stuff. Some of my relatives were sent to camps as political prisoners, most came back eventually. It felt like there was much more solidarity between the people than there is now. Much of that remains.
Romanian here, born in '94, but parents were in their 20s when communism ended. Your experience sounds very similar to theirs
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The first bidets came about around 1700 and were manually filled. Indoor plumbing meant recognizable non-poo filled ones in the 1800s, but the modern toilet seat one was 1964, so keep that in mind wrt time travel.
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In days of old when knights were bold and toilet paper wasn't invented, they'd wipe their ass with a piece of grass and walk away contented.
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Tip 1. Cleaning your hands is easier than cleaning your ass.
Tip 2. You can wipe with wet hands.
Soap is a luxury though. It is borderline free now, it's so cheap. Back then, not so much.
We learned toilet paper from the Chinese, they had it for a long time before that.
If you are able to grab any type of small bucket, bowl, cup, glass, etc. and have access to water, you can just wash. Sure it doesn’t have the same water pressure of a bidet, but that’s still cleaner than even the most modern toilet paper. You’ll need soap though.
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If I'm time traveling, I'm bringing my bidet.
Asbestos-free baby powder
Can I have one that's also free of powdered babies?
The powdered babies are included for free 👍
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You didn't really, just bring the 3 ply with you. Enough to last the trip
OP doesn't know how to use the 3 plies
The Asshole Splinters
This will be the name of my band
They used whatever they had handy before then because they used outhouses. Corncobs, Sears catalog, etc. Small town people, if you've been in contact with the super old people, still talk about it.
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