• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    To date, I think non-minority American boomers have had it the best. The past sucks pretty fast if you go back further than that, and we’re in interesting times now. I could be born a straight cis white man in New York state, 1940 and die in 2019.

    This is assuming history is unchangeable. If not, maybe it’s better to arrive after the Cuban missile crisis, which I’m guessing ended badly in most parallel universes.

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    Oslo. Yesterday. Norway is playing life on easy mode. Massive oil & lithium reserves. NATO. Far North in a hot World.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Since the empty set of time is considered to be a valid subset of all time, I chose the empty set, e.g. “never”. For similar reasons, I chose “nowhere.” It would have been a whole lot easier to never have been born.

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      The thing is, that could be awesome, or it could be a fucked up dystopia. There’s no way to know until you’re there.

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      I would too, maybe 200 years forward. I’m hoping by then most natural causes of death would be mostly figured out and poverty hopefully being a thing of the past.

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      You can’t go back tho. Except if someone there asked you the same question again. Need to make friends, dig through history books and find my question. Tell them they should ask you. If they want to come with you, you ask them also

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    I always figured people in a stone-age tribe in a subtropic region, in a period with no wars, natural disasters and plagues (these conditions must have existed somewhere right?), would have had the best lives.

    Just hanging around making some basic tools, pots and bows and arrows, hunting a bit, foraging some fruits and mushrooms, be amazed by nature. Not too bad.

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    If I’m retaining knowledge I’ll go early 60s in Japan. Have fun and get rich in the miracle economy and protect myself from the bubble bursting in the early 90s. Then I’m loaded and living in a great place.

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    I wouldn’t want to change the time, really. As for the location - mostly anywhere in the current EU, preferably - Germany/Austria/Finland/Netherlands in no particular order?

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    Right here, right now! I’d raise myself as my own baby. This would force time travel to be invented, no matter how improbable. We’d be unstoppable.

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    How far in the future can I go before pathogen microbes evolve too significantly for me to survive? Whatever the answer is, this, but only after making a few minor investments first. Then I’ll go. Place? Switzerland. Why? Hopefully, - stability.