The pandemic. You know, I was casually traveling forward in time, taking it day by day, and then boom: pandemic time. Feels like I accelerated my travel since then.
Sorry, that was me. I didn’t get a full set of shots for common illnesses before I popped back to Wuhan 2019 for some lunch.
But where or when did you pick up the virus?
It’s a common flu-like illness when I come from, after it appeared out of nowhere back in 2020 it became endemic. Guess I had a mild case of it when I took my trip.
I’m not sure I get it, could someone please explain this one?
Hitler killed himself in a bunker in 1945. So the time traveler went back and killed Hitler right when Hitler was already done with all his evil and was going to kill himself.
Not how I read it. I read it that of course the other guy wanted him to kill Hitler BEFORE all his deeds. But how I read it was he went to the bunker and it was really him all along that killed Hitler. Just, a little too late.
And why does that matter to time travel? I think I’m missing the obvious.
Edit: Because he killed him at the end, not the beginning. I just woke up.
He’s some lesser-known landscape artist from the 40s that people in this timeline really hate for some reason. I kind of dread looking up what he painted to get such a reaction.
Primarily, that what we learn from history, is that we do not learn from history.
Thought it would be a kick to check out the ends of the ice age around 12345 B.C.E. but it truly was a darker time. I couldn’t find a signal to send pics to my friends, nor could I get a GPS lock to find the nearest Starbucks so I could warm up. Awesome snow on the slopes but I would still only rate this period 5/10. Please work harder on your hospitality.
The smell
This. No matter how many times you hop, you’re just never gonna get used to it.
Interesting. In my timeline we call them bounces
I ran into a fella in Seattle a while ago, maybe 8 years from now? 12? He was thru on a “fix,” We must’ve talked for the better part of an hour thinking he was with one of those, y’know, activist tanks (you know the ones) before I caught on they just called hops (or bounces) “fixes.”
Interesting character. Saw some shit but had this way of telling you about it that was just… Comedic poetry. I could tell he’d been out too long tho. Hope he finished whatever he on.
Anyway… Yeah.
Jesus was a famous lute player. Like, that’s why he traveled and what he was most famous for. A crooner, a lover, and a huge fan base. The ladies went crazy for the guy. His teachings were just ancillary.
You have Paul to thank for that. He was a bitter, failed musician. Just went on about how great Jesus was, yet somehow skipped all of his musical numbers.
I’ve only ever bothered going in one directions - forwards. Nothing crazy 1s/s. I’d say things are getting better and better. People are still people, but they’re fighting shit that’s more and more trivial. I see that as a great sign as it means the previous, bigger, more serious issues have gone away.
You’re moving too slowly to see broader trends.
Speed it up and you’ll see that sometimes bigger deal issues go dormant for full generations even.
Ah yes, progressive 15th-century Catholics would be cautiously happy if their child freely chose to marry a Protestant; progressive 21st-century Americans would be cautiously happy if their child freely chose to marry a Republican.
The food isn’t as good.
Yeah, Florence in the 1500s I expected better with the spices and all. Everything was over salted and smelled slightly of sewage.
slightly
That word is doing a lot of heavy lifting
Parts of modern day Florence still smell like that
So, kind of like Philadelphia?
I’ve been shocked by the way people will believe violent Demagogues who convince them horrible things are okay if they’re doing them for the benefit of their group of people.
The number of conspiracy theories people of the past were willing to believe about queer folk, foreign people and anyone who didn’t conform is absolutely staggering.
Glad we out grew that.
The LSD from that one time I visited was so dramatically much more than just “change my mood and stuff”.
We didn’t choose the corporation’s that succeeded in this wasteland. They all either perished due to failing global supply lines or fell apart due to their management dying out. There’s not much left in the way of personnel freedoms now though, though we all have 60-hour a week jobs with the new conglomerate, Googazon. I hope that I can maintain my place to live as another 2 million refugees just came in on a boat from overseas - they had lost their city due to natural disasters - more earthquakes and flooding.
I’m honestly shocked at how soon the sapient insects displaced humanity and subjugated what remained. Here’s a hint: the second digit in the year I visited is still a zero
I too, visited 0020000024
So the year 10000000000000000000000 then…?
Definitely how fast the humans died out. I thought they will hold on for longer but nope, folded real quick. The next intelligent species was similar and only the one after that was more successful. Then again it makes sense that species that evolved on the moon will not take earth for granted.
For most eras, how hard it was to make a good sandwich. And I’m not just talking about the past.
Everything gets done so mind-bogglingly slowly! There’s always someone you have to talk, who has to talk to someone else. Bureaucratic processes often end up taking hours or days!! I knew to expect this - but experiencing it firsthand is a shock. How do people get anything done? They’ve computerized some things which helps. But every interface and every database schema has to be designed by a human which I’m told is expensive and takes even longer.
