Assume you have all the luxuries of a modern life in your Tardis (toilet, hot showers, TV, books, game console, …) which doubles as a mini self-sufficient apartment with it’s own energy stores and generation.

Where in history would you go if comfort wasn’t an issue?

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    I’d love to witness the Chixilub impact. Or Pompeii, or any huge natural disaster. The bigger the better. I’d also like to figure out how the moon was actually created. Then see the sun swallow the earth at the end.

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      “what would you do if your basic needs were met?”
      “chill the fuck out”

      seems like a solid answer to me no joke

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    I did what supposed to be done in Red Alert lore and see what happens.

    The world without Tesla, Edition, Einstein. I guess we are running on magic now.

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      That’d take a long time unless you skip ahead a few years every now and then

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    I would stop my kid self from taking the concerta I was prescribed and instead get him to drink a cup of coffee every morning, and would also give him advice for when he stops being a Christian and his parents go apeshit and try to desperately bring him back into the fold.

    Also I would prefer to use a DeLorean

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      I genuinely think I fixed my ADHD with coffee. I know exactly how dumb that sounds, but I genuinely think it’s true. Sorry about your shitty parents. Hope they had their good moments.

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        Having both autism and ADHD, Concerta overstimulated me way too much. Kids probably shouldn’t be taking Concerta anyway

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          Hard stimulants like Concerta and Adderall are better more for pure ADHD than for Autism+ADHD like I have. Anything stronger than caffeine overstimulates me too much, I wish I didn’t go years before realizing I was better off without it

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    I’d go as far back as possible and see how things came to be. And to the time our sun was born and later when our moon was formed. And I’d visits the time and watch earth meeting it’s end.

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    The middle of the carboniferous, imagine forests growing for millions of years and wood not decaying. There should be mountains made of wood.

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    I’d check out and record all of the Biblical/Qur’anic big moments at a prudent distance, probably (barring the times of Noah, lol). Then I’d die in the time machine as I try to come back to my time and share with others cause God wants belief in the unseen and through uncertainty, maybe. 😅

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      Write your own bible with the truth, distribute it to safe locations like Constantinople, Alexandria, and Baghdad.

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        Somehow I would be stopped, I feel it. And regardless, they’d corrupt my writings even if I was careful and entirely honest, and the lumpen would eat it up. Oh well. 🤷😅

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          '“Live and let live” he writes. Father, does that mean “Die and make Die also applies?”

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    I’d love to see the future, because I really am hopeful for humanity to move beyond all this bullshit to some post scarcity utopia :)) Failing that, I’d probably go watch Phineas Gage’s big moment, because, woah.

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      I don’t think you’d want to go into the future after the point time travel was invented because then other time travellers will have been messing with the timeline back and forth a million ways.

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    I would probably look at a few interesting years I am aware of, but after a while I figure it would devolve into “I dunno man, what the fuck was going on in 1111?”

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    I wanna visit the Indus Valley Civilization and see what they were about. If I’m not changing history I’m just gonna be a temporal tourist, hosting a livestream where I ask Romans where the best fast food is at and stuff.

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      Right? Where all our words came from - historians would have a field day