• JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Because it is a thought experiment about punishing people for pre-crime, not people actually planning what to do with a time machine.

      • The cool thing about a time machine is you’d be able to kill Hitler several times, in several ways, in several different back drops. 😃

        Kill Hitler, every single day that he was alive, starting with the last day and working your way back to his birth.

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          1 year ago

          Hey if you ever get access to a time machine and i somehow piss you off in the future, could you do me a favor and hop back to this day and warn me?

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              1 year ago

              More than a bit. But I don’t fantasize about mutilating and murdering a serial killer every day. Dexter wasn’t saying that its normal