11:59:59 December 31st 1949. Fuck the olden times.
this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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Yeah honestly. People don't realize that if you go too far back you'll likely cause a pandemic and even if you go back to 1949 medicine was still pretty fuckin whack.
Lobotomies for all!
New Zealand 800 years ago. The rest of the question doesn't matter because there were no other humans there.
I pick NZ, 801 years ago
Are you and @bstix forgetting that there were giant eagles that probably ate humans?
In that case, I also choose NZ 802 years ago.
There are now no humans there 799 years ago.
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That means you would doom yourself to die alone...
Or you have to spend your whole life building a boat, collecting food and being able to navigate, just to rejoin civilisation
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Dec 31st 1949.
I'm a queer woman, so these sort of time travel questions boil down to preserving as many rights as I can.
as a queer brown man; i don't want to be anywhere at all.
why 1949 and where?
You would have been just fine in, say, North or East Africa a few hundred years ago.
I think they picked 49 because it's as modern as they could get within OP's parameters.
Would fit in with the ancient Greeks
Maybe back to like ancient Greece or something?
Where, the U.S.? Seems like there's gotta be other times and places that were more woman- and queer-friendly, right?
You'd think places like San Francisco would be better, but 20 years later the Stone Wall riots happened. It was pretty rough all around to be gay in that time, though I'm sure some places were worse than others.
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Just kill me
Given that there were 2 world wars in the early 1900s and that I like tech in general I would also choose 12/31/1949. At least I might have a PC sometime in my lifetime and I'd probably live to use it and not be a corpse on some beach somewhere.
Just pick Switzerland.
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Lincolnβs booth in Fordβs theater on the night of the assassination right before it happens. Saving the president will immediately give me some credibility and influence, and it could improve reconstruction of the south to an extent that positively impacts modern America.
It may complicate your life though. You'd have no explanation of who you are or why you're there.
It's OK, just tell Abe you're there to kill vampires and he'll let you into his secret society.
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I mean, tune it just right and you can get the Industrial Revolution started a couple millenia early and maybe bypass the whole colonialism nonsense. Middle ages is too late, too much theocracy. Common knowledge gets you in grecorroman spaces, but maybe you can overshoot a touch and get some nice Phoenician traders to bankroll your plan to mass produce bycicles or Ikea-style furniture and ship it all over the Mediterranean.
Just... hope you stay healthy or that the rules let you pack a bunch of antibiotics. Or maybe learn a bunch of modern medicine before you go. Maybe prioritize the whole "discovering penicillin" thing when you get there.
Problem with that plan is you don't know if you will be a slave.
Not necessarily insurmountable, but still a good point.
You may still have an easier time getting things up and running as a slave in antiquity than as a serf in the Middle Ages, depending on where you end up. Pretty sure you'd have a better shot as a slave in antiquity than in the US or other colonial areas, both because colonialism reeeeally sucked and because you'd have relatively more valuable skills.
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The surgery that kept me alive at birth wasn't invented until the late '80s. So I guess I would just be fucked no matter what. So put me wherever they want, any time before 1950 is going to suck ass for me.
Now assuming that part of my time travel comes with being able to fix my heart stuff. I would like to be born in the early 1900s. I can't think of a single time where I'm not going to fight both war and awfulness in the general world. But at least then I could be around for some cool developments.
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About 4 to 6 million years ago. Choosing biological history of humans, see what I can mess up when humans first started
Having as much sex as possible with as many individuals as possible.
The location, geography and placement is randomly picked?
Then like the other guy said December 31, 1949 11:59 pm
To be born before this time randomly anywhere in the world means that there is a high chance you'd be dropped into an impoverished hell hole with nothing, no chance and no help .... God help you if you are female.
I have a whole rant on this topic, but the short version:
Itβs dentists.
The gnarliest mountain man, who hunts bears with his bear hands, can be brought to his knees with a toothache. The toothache never sleeps, canβt be fought, and always eventually wins. Even basic dentistry is life saving - even another human with a pair of pliers and some moonshine - but Iβd much rather have novocaine.
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Somewhere before the advent of mankind, really fuck with some historians
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1940, as there are crazy things that will be going on in the world of computer science (and science in general) over the course of the next few decades and that would be really cool to experience. Kind of sad though to not be alive once we achieve human-level artificial intelligence, would be interested in seeing how that will turn out. I would probably chose America, as I wouldnβt want to spend WW2 in Germany where I live in the present.
Alternatively I think I would very much enjoy visiting Ancient Greek, although Iβm not too sure when would be the best time for that; maybe at the peak of Athen.
1940s
The only correct answer, the past, was the worst. I like having antibiotics, not dying in childbirth, hot running water e.t.
Can always take the knowledge with you. Memorize how to do critical parts of plumbing. The antibiotics part yeah that would suck.
Memorize how to do critical parts of plumbing
Ok, we need to go to the store and buy some pipes.
What are pipes?
Oh. I think I fucked up.
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1600 India. I'm royalty and get to meet my ancestor and favorite historical figure Akbar. And yes the mughal empire is my roman empire
Social standing is random though based on OPβs rules. It would be terrible to end up as part of the lowest caste.
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Yikes. Uhh. 1950. Cause youβre really pushing your luck before that if your background is random.
1870s in the Southeastern United States. I'm gonna make goddamn sure Reconstruction doesn't just end and Jim Crow functionally re-invents slavery.
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'49?
Maybe ancient Athens? Just sit around eating grapes and talking about triangles and shit. And even if I get rng'd into slavery, I could draw the Pythagorean theorem in the dirt, and a passing scholar would be like "holy shit, come with me dude"
Caveman era. Give me a heavy rock and a cave and ill make do somehow.
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