LemmyKnowsBest,

You wanna fuck up the timeline? Somehow mess something up so plastic was never, and never will be invented. That would change sooooo many things.

MrAlternateTape,

It would also stop much of the progress humanity made. Unfortunately, plastic is pretty much the cheapest and easiest solution for a lot of problems, specifically for packaging food and stuff like that.

You may very well travel back to a world that no longer can build that time machine.

ChemicalPilgrim,

When the fork I use for lunch and throw away will outlast my civilization, I’m very much ok with destroying that technology.

maniel,
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  • Kuori,
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    every day, i pray for god to do the bare minimum and give His people an internet without men

    maniel,
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    Yeah, I might’ve worded too dude like for your taste, I’m genuinely curious though, what part of my statement angered you to the point of calling for segregation? My potentially but unintentionally offensive language or the fact I mentioned the situation?

    Kuori,
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    it was mostly a joke. your comment was just phrased in a fairly gross way and i felt like hyperbolically expressing my distaste

    as for why it took that exact form…well, spend some time as a woman and see how long it takes before you want a break from men lol

    LemmyKnowsBest,

    You weren’t too shy to tittyfuck her, how’d you miss the BJ hint?

    maniel,
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    Guessing it’s because I was busy looking at them boobies, also tried to play inaccessible young man with strong moral backbone, who don’t want to rush things, we both were virgins back then

    hrimfaxi_work,
    @hrimfaxi_work@midwest.social avatar

    I wonder how much difference one Stinger SAM would have made at Blair Mountain in 1921.

    violetraven,
    @violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    Teaching Abraham Lincoln how to do egirl makeup and being a femboy.

    TheGuyTM3,
    @TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml avatar

    I’d bring a universal encyclopedia to the mesopotamians.

    Rockyrikoko,

    Bring a time machine with you and teach ancient Egyptians how to use it

    octoperson,

    I would bring a sandwich for Gavrilo Princip.

    mindbleach,

    This remains my favorite answer.

    pixelscript,

    I often wonder how people would react if you showed up to a concert hall in, say, classical music era Europe or something and performed modern music. Assuming you could kit it to provide infrastructure for whatever your performance required, and the acoustics of the venue were idealized.

    Would attendees hate it? Would the unfamiliar musical styles be repulsive to them? Would the sounds and textures of modern instrumentation like electric guitar and synthesizer upset or even frighten them? Or would they find something to appreciate about it? Would the music be copied and spread, becoming a time worn classic folk tune in an alternate future? Or would it be rebuked and suppressed, condemned for all time as evil influence? Which genres would have the best acceptance chances in which cultures, and which eras?

    In my mind in particular, I think about this with the niche realm of video game soundtracks. If not just the music played as-is through some playback device (which would probably be rather boring, but who knows, maybe the novelty of recorded music alone would be fascinating enough) then perhaps arranged for live performance, like the orchestral performance of Undertale, or the Sinnohvation big band album. Or, of course, if the soundtrack was itself a recorded live performance, just perform it. These collections of compositions often outline rich adventures, communicated by a wide range of musical styles. I wonder if they are strong enough to stand alone, and if audiences would respond to them without the context that they were written to accompany.

    Failing live performance (which would be trickier than one would think–to sound good, live music has to be written with its venue in mind, and I’d assume most modern music would sound like garbage when performed in victorian era concert halls or ancient ampitheaters), I’d also consider putting them to vinyl LPs and dumping them in old record shops in any era that had phonograph or turntable technology and see if they get discovered.

    Why not just send back the video games themselves? I dunno. I guess I’m less interested in wowing them with futuristic technology and more interested in how they’d react to something they already have (music), but in a strange, new context.

    mindbleach,

    The temptation would be to play “Raining Blood” and get extremely excommunicated. “South of Heaven” you could argue is a musical Hieronymus Bosch painting. “Disciple,” less so. For apostasy that cheeky locals could reproduce on a lute, do “The God That Failed.”

    Probably the least riot-inducing song that’d still leave the aristocracy struggling to deal with the experience is Anamanaguchi’s “Endless Fantasy.” To people intimately familiar with wind and string instruments, and for a song that Jackson Parodi managed to decently reproduce on a goddamn accordion, it’s juuust enough to leave everyone wondering how the hell humans made those noises. It’s also obscenely energetic. Nevermind concert halls, play this at cafe that’s just imported tobacco and watch some men in hosiery get off their asses. All of that goes double for “Prom Night.” None of these people have ever heard a square wave.

    Somewhere in-between, I’d suggest any Flaming Lips album. At War With The Mystics might go over quite well, at first.

    Agent641,

    Id go back and push a kid into the gorilla enclosure at Cincinnati zoo, just for a laugh.

    MTK,

    If I went back in time, between stoping hitler or stopping you the choice is clear.

    mindbleach,

    NYT: Adolf Hitler somehow killed by gorilla, onlookers horrified but supportive.

    robot_dog_with_gun,

    i’d go kill all the tiktaalik or maybe whatever the first common ancestor eukaryotes were

    JK1348,

    Avoid cocaine Limit my drinking Focus in school better instead of partying Go therapy Been patient enough to grow a meaningful relationship with someone special but I was too egoistical to see it then Learn music Workout and not gain weight from excessive drinking and eating

    imaqtpie,
    @imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Indeed. That way you could be more useful for the capitalist machine.

    PeepinGoodArgs,

    Carl Sagan himself. This timeline is going to be ruined.

    Vode_An,

    Ending the first living cell on earth. If we are alone in the universe, preventing life from forming would do the most to change the timeline.

    MTK,

    By doing that you would leave behind so many new and much more complex cells (modern bacteria, yeas, maybe even spores) You would probably boost evolution by millions of years!

    justaregulardude1999,

    Killing Bill Gates. It would be a weird timeline, maybe Microsoft would still exist, but in a different shape.

    257m,

    I have some suggestions: toastytech.com/evil/killbill.html

    intensely_human,

    Microsemi. A slightly more over-medium version of our operating systems.

    Agent641,

    XerOS

    kristina, (edited )

    id give the taino a flak cannon to shoot at colombus

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