RustyShackleford

You might, or might not be surprised to hear I tested for variables like that regularly lol.

I used to do a similar ritual, and it was really reassuring. Might be an autistic thing for me though lol.

I’d rather go out early than watch our species continue mopping the floor in a hurricane.

That just tells you they know how awful iOS 26 is lol.

Attended a Christian school in high school and I used this joke when the opportunity came up, and the teacher was really pissed about it lol.

So cool that Apple stopped making iOS 18 updates for all devices above iPhone XR. /s Forcing users on 11/12/13/14/15/16/17 devices to choose either staying on the more stable 18.7.2 where they were comfortable, or the garbage can of iOS 26. They fixed the DarkSword issue on the XR and select iPads with a 18.8 patch, but refuse to release it for anyone still on 18.7.2, on any device that’s iOS 26 compatible.

Definitely.

Agreed, instaban’s are a tad heavy handed. As not everyone understands how the system works.

That ‘everything’s moving’ argument is a convenient shutdown, not a dead end. We already track motion precisely, GPS corrects for relativity every second. That means relative positioning isn’t unsolved; it’s restricted.

You wouldn’t target a spot in space. You’d target a worldline, like Earth’s continuous path through spacetime. Same path, different point.

Saying you’d end up in empty space assumes a cartoon machine that only changes the date. A real device moves you along spacetime itself.

So when people say time travel is impossible because there’s no reference frame, what they really mean is: you don’t have access to the frame that works. Not impossible. Classified.

Finally. Thank you. Someone thinking past the punch bowl.

Forget paradoxes, pathogens are the real problem. You don’t need to step on a butterfly to wreck the timeline; you just need a 21st-century rhinovirus and a handshake. Entire villages, gone. History rewritten by a sneeze.

Any responsible time traveler would be sealed head to toe. No exposed skin, no shared air, no hors d’oeuvres. Certainly no cake. You don’t know what yeast does to medieval Europe when it’s had a few centuries of upgrades.

Now, I’m speaking hypothetically, legally, and for educational purposes only… you fast-forward a few decades and suddenly certain names appear in court documents and flight logs, not convictions, not proof of wrongdoing, just… associations. Enough to make a careful chrononaut say, ‘You know what? I’m not popping back in time to shake hands and eat shrimp.’

The absence at that party wasn’t evidence that time travel failed. It was evidence that it worked, and everyone who could come already knew how the story looked later.

History doesn’t just judge actions. It judges proximity. And no self-respecting time traveler shows up early to something that turns awkward in hindsight.

Don’t quote me, but that’s pyrite or chalcopyrite, right?

Where did Scotland get its vanilla from, without those sweet beaver butts? /s