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Fuck grocery shopping, buy a house.
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Submitted 3 weeks ago by Arustra3@piefed.social to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
In the 40s, after you kill Hitler
SippyCup@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I cannot stress this enough. Do not kill Hitler after 1925. Once he’s started his ascent to power the train is moving and all you can do now is change the conductor. As it happens Hitler wasn’t the best conductor. Once the war starts he’s the best person for the allies to be in charge of Germany.
Kill Hitler before he goes to jail and writes that fucking book.
ripcord@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Better time would have been like 2012.
homes@piefed.world 3 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Bring a fake checkbook, fraud was a lot easier back in the '80s.
homes@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Not that easy. Even back in the 80s, they frequently wrote your drivers license number down on the back.
sploder@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ah, a good ol hot check scam. The good days.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That is one of the set ups in 11/22/63. A guy was buying all the food for his diner by going back in time.
Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Unfortunately this is how fascism starts.
We can fix the system, but instead fascists use the excuse of poverty or a broken system to gain power.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Literally how hitler became popular in Germany. He basically said “your lives are shit, this country should be ashamed of how poor it’s gotten, but I’m here now to improve everyones lives, and blame it on someone who isn’t you”.
And people said “Yeah, that guy isn’t afraid to tell the truth!”
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The only reason not to kill baby Hitler is because his administration was somewhat incompetent… Someone far more skilled could rise up if he isn’t the one to do it and commit even more atrocities.
Otherwise, baby hitler getting thrown off the building. Every time.
Triumph@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
"What i want to hear" always wins over truth, even if the former makes absolutely no sense.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
They also said “This guy really cares about Germany”, which is getting harder for Magats to pretend everyday.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
you realize the quality of the food back then was much worse, right?
that’s also why it was so cheap.
moakley@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In the 80s my family still got most of our vegetables from cans. It was bad.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
or frozen ones that turned into mush once you cooked them. that was my mom’s speciality
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Have you been watching Supermarket Sweep?
Which of these costs more than $1: Jiffy Pop, Pledge, or Rice a Roni, the San Francisco treat?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Now I gotta wake up early to turn on Price is Right to see how insane the prices are for all the bidding parts.
…It’s still on the air, right? 🤔
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yup, its the oldest ongoing game show and will be it’s 55th season this year hosted by Drew Carey.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There are also 24 hour Price is Right channels on Pluto. They have both a Bob Barker channel and a Drew Carey channel.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’ll take Rice a Roni, bob!
admant@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
In the 2016 show 11.22.63, Jake Epping, a recently divorced English teacher from Maine discovers that his friend’s diner had a portal that allows him to travel back to 1963.
Jake uses this portal to travel back in time to try to save Kenedy from being assassinated. His friend had done the same though it was stated in passing that he also used it to by meat on the cheap for his diner.
This is to say that the diner owner had it right. Fuck Kennedy, I’m getting those 1963 groceries, with the good fats.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Amazing book. I could read it again and again
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Good show. Great book
xxam925@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Pudding pops.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I vividly remember my mother griping about how expensive everything had become and asking how anybody was supposed to afford that. Some things just never change.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
people’s perception of cost is highly relative.
people love to romanticize stuff without doing any true cost comparisons.
like how bad the environment was in the 1980s compared to today. or how expensive electronics were, and how unsafe cars were. and how bad nutrition and healthcare was.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Remember to bring clean period correct cash.
morto@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Doesn’t work in my country, because there were different currencies during the 80s (current one would have no value) and it was a period oh high economic instability and poverty
homes@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Even in the United States, all of the paper money looks very different than it used to in the 1980s except for the one dollar bill. Trying to use today’s money in the past wouldn’t work in a lot of places.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You could take artificial diamonds back to the time before there were such things as artificial diamonds.
morto@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
TIL!
Hegar@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
People always seem to think killing hitler would help, but part of the reason no one assassinated him is because the allies wanted hitler alive to continue making terrible decisions.
Imagine how much worse the first trump regime would've been if trump wasn't making any of the decisions - we don't have to imagine because we're living it now.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
If it wasn’t Hitler it would have been someone else. I don’t know why everyone thinks one person was solely responsible for all of it.
dan1101@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There was some groovy shopping music.
tio_bira@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I would back in time and make my grandma do a full check-up to early discover his brain cancer before become malignant.
Also would try to learn japanese and go back in 2019 and try to force Miura to do a heart check-up
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
grandma
his brain cancer
…what?
noseatbelt@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Some people whose first language doesn’t have gendered pronouns mix them up when they speak English.
LordMayor@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Maybe, they transitioned before the diagnosis?
But, it was the ‘80s…
YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
All my childhood faves have either been removed or hideously ‘improved’ beyond recognition. Hell, even 10 years ago the soda I liked here in the UK was way better (now it’s all Aspartame and AcuflameK).
Just last week I noticed that they’ve changed my goto crisp (Squares) by making them thinner, changing the whole experience.
It’s oddly jarring when they fuck with something they were hard selling you as a perfection for decades.
Apeman42@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For the prices, or the access to things they don’t sell anymore? If I went to 1992 I think I could stock up on Ecto Cooler and TMNT pudding pies at the same time, maybe even Crystal Pepsi.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
I want to go back in time and kill Ronny Reygun in the 60s.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You might appreciate this:
theedqueen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I want to be able to shop in a mall in the 90s. Maybe also a 90s toys r us.
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
There’s a magical place, we’re on our way there…
titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Mid 2000s toysrus was better for video games.
fixmycode@feddit.cl 2 weeks ago
get an early start on those babies
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
To smell the cigarette smoke inside the grocery store.
vane@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
2080s or 3080s ? Why everyone tries to go back in time if you can go to the future and realize that modern times are not so bad.
thefluffiest@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Why go back in time if there’s plenty of fascists to kill right here and now?
FukOui@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You mean fascists with their own private militaries and lobby, chilling inside their 1B$ mega bunkers?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
You mean actual fascists and not just people you disagree with… right? Right???
thefluffiest@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
I’m not a fascist
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Found one.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh no you didn’t!
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Downvoted by 8 fascists.