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The handsome tard said:
What if you woke up 20 years ago with all the memories you have ? What would you try to change for yourself and others?
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Unless I woke up as my younger self, I'd likely assume that Novikov self-consistency principle applies, thus anything I "changed" was part of history all along. Yet if I somehow woke up in my 2004 body yet with 2024 memories, history would already be different. In the case of the latter, there may not be much I could do: just one person.
 
The handsome tard said:
What if you woke up 20 years ago with all the memories you have ? What would you try to change for yourself and others?
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Funny thing is I wouldn't change much. I'd get a job and let the maturing and understanding of the worklife dictate my career choices; probably leading to a more relevant education and thus a better job. Yet, I'd be without the experiences I've had and someone else would've picked up my cat, and I would hurt every day being aware of this fact. :(
 
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What if there was a 5th season: cocytus (a "super winter")?

It'd be months 13 (Smarch*) to 15, which means normal winter before having days getting even shorter.

* "Lousy Smarch weather." - Homer Simpson
 
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How different would things be now had Trump not dodged that bullet in the summer of 2024?
 
What if the hit on Luis Carrero Blanco failed? It wasn't the initial explosion that killed him. His car got thrown upwards, and landed on the second to top floor, or the top floor of an apartment complex, then, about 20 minutes later, his car fell off the building, and that's what dealt the coup de grace.
 
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What if Eric Clapton actually tracked down his biological dad?

What if that cigar killed Fidel Castro?

What if Bob Marley agreed to have his toe amputated, and survived his cancer?

What if Grant Imahara were still alive?

What if Edward Longshanks' eldest son wasn't a faggot?

What if FW de Klerk beat Nelson Mandela?

What if Rosa Parks stood up?

What if half of Liberia were part of America, 50-100 years after the capital Monrovia was founded - Maybe call it South-Western Liberia?

What if Alexander the Great didn't get sick and die?

What of Julius Caesar not only survived, or escaped his assassination attempt, and punished, by death, or exiled the Roman Senate who wanted to get rid of him?

What if the Germans found out about the development of the first tanks, during World War 1? This is a fun fact I'm sure a number of you know already, due to my posting about early tanks on another thread, but tanks get their name for a covert secret name, and the Germans actually bought it: they thought British forces were making fishtanks in a warehouse.
 
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Any non-humanoid aliens may think talking is just "Earthling noise" to them.

Like how people on this planet think whale singing is "whale noise" to them.
 
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The handsome tard said:
What if you woke up 20 years ago with all the memories you have ? What would you try to change for yourself and others?



Then I will commit all the reactionary crimes against Farm-anity again.

I did it once, I'll do it again!
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no, but I'd take out a loan and buy as much bitcoin as possible. then I'd use my knowledge on LLMs to beat OpenAI before they even got founded.
 
What happened to the white people in cities? The only times I see other white people anymore are in farmers markets, hipster type places and/or places that gay/trans people hang around. It's like another white flight happened and it was just never reported.

Also yes I know this is late, I can't exactly ask this question anywhere else.
 
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Super Mario Brothers said:
What happened to the white people in cities? The only times I see other white people anymore are in farmers markets, hipster type places and/or places that gay/trans people hang around. It's like another white flight happened and it was just never reported.

Also yes I know this is late, I can't exactly ask this question anywhere else.
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White flight is continuous, people make the mistake of thinking it just happened once in the 50s and hasn't since. Oftentimes the first to go out of dying cities are whites, and this can radically alter the demography of places. See Baltimore, which went from about 60% white to 60% black in the span of two decades or so.
There are still very white areas (my college town in upstate new york is almost completely white, save for some college students from outside the state who are hispanic, asian etc.) but much of the demographic shift in the US (where I'm assuming you're posting about) occurs within cities. It's a compounding of both white flight with rising minority populations respective to white families (insert Telegram post from some chud abou twhite birthrates here)
 
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Those who mistake curiosity for intelligence lack one and have a deficiency in the other.
 
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Romaniac said:
Those who mistake curiosity for intelligence lack one and have a deficiency in the other.
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People often have a lot of questions about different topics, but they don't always take the time to really dig in and grasp what those topics are all about.
 
What if Stonewall Jackson survived? Could the South have won the war?
What if Huey Long survived? Would America be a more egalitarian country?
What if Napoleon didn't invade Russia? Would he have remained the master of Europe?
 
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