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[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 59 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

In this s case, they would time travel, have you and name you gay Hitler as a joke. Not like, your current parents right now.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 2 weeks ago

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?

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Depends on which movie/TV show/book/etc. we're looking at for time travel mechanics. Nice thing about fiction is that you can put together the story and then work backwards with all the egghead stuff.

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] Andonyx@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago
[-] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 33 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] Elting@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] TachyonTele@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

So long Gay Hitler!

[-] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Damn is Shane Dawson doing shit again?

this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2026
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