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[–] 59 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Imagine having time traveling parents, and having to wonder why they snicker whenever they call your name.

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    If my parents could time travel, I wouldn't exist.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago*

    Your parents would be unable to modify any events that materially affect them in our timeline, so you’re safe.

    Your parents are free to live in an alternate timeline where you do not or never existed though.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Isn't that a paradox though. In order to travel into the future to meet you you would have to first be born, if they met you and then decided you weren't worth it then who was it they met?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Paradoxes seem to self resolve, if you go back and prevent your own birth, it's almost like that's a different reality and the act of time travel has transported you into it. You are matter and energy from another time/system that is modifying the energy and matter in the system you've been transported to. The past you've traveled to is the present and your actions impact the future of that system.

    As far as I see it, any time you transport yourself back in time you're essentially cloning yourself into that time and you're not going anywhere if you prevent your own birth. There just won't be a baby born with your name on it.

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  • [–] 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    "Look I didn't do seven years of medical school so people could call me 'Mister Gay Hitler.'"

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    Apparently he died in 1948, so his name would have probably been pretty funny by then.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    So long Gay Hitler!

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Damn is Shane Dawson doing shit again?

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