Comment on Screw killing Hitler with time machine technology - I just want to go grocery shopping in the mid 80s.

• sploder@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ah, a good ol hot check scam. The good days.

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• homes@piefed.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not that easy. Even back in the 80s, they frequently wrote your drivers license number down on the back.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh no, not my drivers license from the future

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    • homes@piefed.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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      • SippyCup@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And for driver’s licenses that won’t even be issued for another 20 years? It’s not very useful information if it doesn’t exist yet.

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  • Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It doesn’t matter, your Time Machine doesn’t need drivers license.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨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.

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    • homes@piefed.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nothing about that was easy. It may not have been as difficult as it is now, but it still wasn’t “easy”.

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      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It wasn’t that hard. Spend a couple hours in the children’s section of a cemetery in some midsize Midwest city, and you’d have a list of names of babies, who most likely died right in that very county. Request a copy of a birth certificate from the local county offices. Use that to apply for a Social Security Card, and use that and the birth certificate to get a driver’s license.

        Most of it has to be done through the mail, so it will take a while, but that’s the worst of it.

        Can’t do that today, though. They’ve locked down birth certificates pretty well, it would be hard to get your mitts on one. These days they tend to just steal someone else’s identity, and live parallel lives with someone else.

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  • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨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.

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    • homes@piefed.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And it would certainly cost you more than whatever you were paying for groceries. Not a particularly wise investment.

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  • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I dunno, it was pretty easy to do it. 

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