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If you could go back in time and do, or bring, one thing to mess up the timeline what would it be? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by hai@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You wanna fuck up the timeline? Somehow mess something up so plastic was never, and never will be invented. That would change sooooo many things.

[–] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would also stop much of the progress humanity made. Unfortunately, plastic is pretty much the cheapest and easiest solution for a lot of problems, specifically for packaging food and stuff like that.

You may very well travel back to a world that no longer can build that time machine.

[–] ChemicalPilgrim@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

When the fork I use for lunch and throw away will outlast my civilization, I'm very much ok with destroying that technology.