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.
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.
Are you okay?
I’ll be fine, I’m just going through some hard times now. Thanks for asking. Sorry if I’m being worrying, but “worrying” gallows humor is how I cope.
the cambrian period
no capitalism
no climate change
no politics
just swim
no climate change
So I’m not a paleontologist, but I think that technically, there were climate changes. I mean I imagine that the creatures weren’t particularly bothered by such climate changes, implying that they were sophisticated enough to be bothered at all.
I do like swim though.
Whatever climate change earth previously went through was never noticed by any living being.
The last 40 years was the first time that temperature went up by 1 degree Celsius in such a short time frame. That took 1000 years in any previous climate change.
The climate change was not this fast, as far as I know. We have managed to expedite the entire process. That’s why it sucks so much this time around.
can I just be a tree and chill for a few decades/centuries?
Yup. The monkeys paw says you are a houseplant tho, a bonsai
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.
Great Question. I’d go to the future, not sure how far tho.
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.
Like a month maybe. See if Barbie hits 1.5 billion
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Do I get to pick my mother?
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We talking rebirth with continuity of memory or is this a blank slate?
No, it’s only you who’s going on a journey
… what?
Do I get to choose who I am born to? And is this rebirth or a blank slate? You didn’t answer anything!
You get to choose who ypu are born to and it’s a blank state
There is no discernible difference between being reborn as a blank slate and dying. Either way, I cease to exist. No thanks.
What’s the matter queermunist, you chicken?
My plan is to live forever or die trying. None of this reincarnation crap!
Do I get to pick my mother?
This is the essential question. Like, if I could be born into a super-wealthy family, the actual time might be less important.
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