• @surewhynotlem
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      261 month ago

      It had to happen, because it did happen.

      Unless we’re playing by Back To The Future rules, in which case … I dunno man, whatever gets him to not hook up with his mom.

  • @[email protected]
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    421 month ago

    Maybe that’s why so few books survived the fire.

    They were brought to the future and we are in the in between time. * X files music*

    • @Karjalan
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      91 month ago

      Was just about to say this. It’s wild and sad how often it is “women lame. Man smart, strongk” with this format.

      • @Duamerthrax
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        41 month ago

        I took most of those as “woman reasonable, men weird”.

    • @Agent641
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      31 month ago

      Regular people bad

      • @PugJesusOPM
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        101 month ago

        Regular people bad

        This but unironically

        • Dragon Rider (drag)
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          11 month ago

          The world is far too normal and it’s a travesty. Everyone should be weirder. Go goth! Start a religion! Invent a new gender! Learn everything there is to know about trains. Normal sucks.

  • @cmbabul
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    91 month ago

    Someone needs to take out Machiavelli or otherwise prevent him from writing The Prince while we’re in the past. Might not do anything but it could fix a lot if it does

    • @PugJesusOPM
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      251 month ago

      Nah, The Prince is just basic government theory.

      • @[email protected]
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        Yes. I read The Prince and I think Machiavelli’s reputation as malevolent and scheming is undeserved. Perhaps he shocked the sensibilities of some by saying the quiet part out loud, but it would be foolish for either a ruler or his subjects to be unaware of that quiet part due to misplaced idealism. This remains true in the present day.

        Edit: I assume that you know this, but I thought that a reply to you was a good place to say it to others.

  • @[email protected]
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    71 month ago

    First stop, Nalanda university. It’s said that when the Mongols burned it, it didn’t stop for a month.

    • @Tangent5280
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      21 month ago

      Imagine the size of its knowledge base, considering most of its learnings were passed down orally as was the custom of the time in the subcontinent?

  • @Bimfred
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    51 month ago

    The Chronicles of St. Mary’s is an entire series of historians “investigating historical events in contemporary time.” Don’t call it time travel. They don’t like that term.

  • @lemmy_get_my_coat
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    41 month ago

    Why hurry? Why not go back a month or more before the fire to give youself time?

  • @buzz86us
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    41 month ago

    I would want to see Shakespeare’s lost plays. Though most likely I’d see every Marx brothers performance.