homes@piefed.world 1 day ago
Keep in mind that people made a lot less back then, so the groceries weren’t as affordable as they appear. and you can’t tap your smartphone to pay, so you might run into some trouble. Even modern cash wouldn’t work back then, unless you play all in one dollar bills. Fives, tens, 20s, 50s, and 100s have all changed. People in the 1980s would think you’re playing with monopoly money.
ultranaut@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Bring a fake checkbook, fraud was a lot easier back in the '80s.
sploder@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Ah, a good ol hot check scam. The good days.
homes@piefed.world 21 hours ago
Not that easy. Even back in the 80s, they frequently wrote your drivers license number down on the back.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Oh no, not my drivers license from the future
homes@piefed.world 10 hours ago
Your drivers license number never changes. Those records are also permanent. So, yeah, that would be a problem for you in the future.
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
It doesn’t matter, your Time Machine doesn’t need drivers license.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
It was easy to fake an identity back then. Nothing was computerized or tracked. Just get a birth certificate from a baby who died around the time of your birth, and you could get a Social Security card, a Driver’s License, and a whole new identity.
homes@piefed.world 13 hours ago
Nothing about that was easy. It may not have been as difficult as it is now, but it still wasn’t “easy”.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
A 1980s driver license, the peak of anti forgery technology.getting a Time Machine and check book is easy, but forging a drivers license from the 80s - impossible.
homes@piefed.world 13 hours ago
And it would certainly cost you more than whatever you were paying for groceries. Not a particularly wise investment.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
I dunno, it was pretty easy to do it.