SwiftOnSecurityWell here's some nightmare fuel – a 60's American rocket warhead full of sarin cluster bombs to cover a square kilometer with nerve gas.
I will again repeat that under no circumstances you travel back in time to before the fall of the Soviet Union. We are the one in a billion timeline that doesn't go sideways don't fuck this up for us. I don't care how much you want to keep Reagan a movie star some mistakes are forever.
Artimage@SwiftOnSecurity this is the timeline that didn’t go sideways?!?
sanddorn@Artimage @SwiftOnSecurity well, going down isn't going sideways 👇
Opgog
The Essence of Woerm Sin@Artimage @SwiftOnSecurity I mean, while things could certainly be a whole lot better now I didn't honestly expect to make it this far without either dying in a nuclear fireball or due to the fallout from one, so, eh.
@gothytim @SwiftOnSecurity solid genx reply.
Aethylred@Artimage @SwiftOnSecurity if we don't get Trump the GOP keeps GOPPING
Jeff Byrnes@Artimage @SwiftOnSecurity yup. As fucking terrible as Reagan was, there’s this one thing that went right for everyone & he was a meaningful element.
Sucks.
Glyph@Artimage @SwiftOnSecurity my favorite quote from Jon Lovett is “there’s no such thing as ‘we’re fucked’. Things can get better or things can get worse.” And things can *always* get worse.
Ed Bott@SwiftOnSecurity Ronald Reagan was not a movie star. He was a middling B-grade actor who wound up in the role of his life playing President of the United States.
Guillaume Rossolini@SwiftOnSecurity
I saw you edit just now, you happy?
I saw you edit just now, you happy?
Benjamin Johns@SwiftOnSecurity Look I accidentally left my aviators in 1986 and they just frame my face too well. Five minutes, in and out, if I even SEE a butterfly I'll come right back, scouts honor.
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Not sure this timeline is as you say, though?
Here's a 2019 presentation from last year's best seller french author (at one of France's best grad schools & with very decent English subtitles)
But maybe that was your point
Jancovici : CO2 ou PIB, il faut choisir - Sciences Po - 29/08/2019 - [EN subtitles available]
Phillip Hallam-Baker@SwiftOnSecurity The Time Variance Authority insists that 616 is the one true timeline.
Daniel Pawtowski@SwiftOnSecurity
I often thought of 2016 as one of those bits where multiple time travelers keep going back to prevent a disaster, but each trip just makes it worse.
I found out what the disaster was in 2020.
Jan Batora@SwiftOnSecurity what if THAT is the only right solution
Carlos Rodríguez@SwiftOnSecurity do you really think our timeline hasn’t go sideways?
Sam Wade@SwiftOnSecurity "Gibson himself has said that, in creating a future that didn’t end in a global nuclear disaster, he thought he was creating an optimistic future. In the 1980s, reading Neuromancer’s grim future somehow alleviated, for me at least, the fear that the unknown future would be unsurvivable." https://www.tor.com/2022/02/10/the-peculiar-dystopian-optimism-of-william-gibsons-neuromancer/
Noah Cook@SwiftOnSecurity Any future TimeCops who want to make sure that history turns out correctly, take note: protect Raisa Gorbechev at all costs.
(no, seriously, she was a major force in convincing her husband that Soviet Communism had no future, ensuring a peaceful breakup that, at worst, would have resulted in an early-EU style CIS)
Alex Gantman
@SwiftOnSecurity The multi-verse is basically a Choose Your Own Adventure book where most choices result in a horrifying extinction.
Cenobyte 
@SwiftOnSecurity Fortunately time machines can only be used from the time they’re created to the time their destroyed. The only ones possible that I’m aware of would be so massive they’d destroy the whole solar system (Tipler Cylinder for example!) You can sleep at night :)
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 👽@SwiftOnSecurity What if I go back and stop the Rosenbergs from selling nuclear tech to the Russians? US gets a clear hand to fight Korea, reinstate KMT in China, get an American Century 4 decades early. Which isn't everyone else's favorite, but probably fewer genocides.
The Doctor@mdhughes @SwiftOnSecurity You don't want to do that. You get blamed for it instead of them. Leaving that bit of history as-was causes far less harm than happened before.
mayday@mdhughes @SwiftOnSecurity > American century
> Fewer genocides
Well, considering the fact that America irl was indirectly involved in most of them, I'd say this is really optimistic
⚳ rapid unscheduled assembly ⚳@SwiftOnSecurity The number of times we came within a single event upset or a bitflip of ending up as radioactive dust is frankly terrifying, by which I mean, it's more than zero.
Brittle Anxious Nonlinear Inco@SwiftOnSecurity no, the nuclear holocaust is bound to be better