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Fuck grocery shopping, buy a house.
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Submitted 2 months ago by Arustra3@piefed.social to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 months ago
titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
In the 40s, after you kill Hitler
SippyCup@lemmy.ml 2 months 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 months ago
Better time would have been like 2012.
homes@piefed.world 2 months 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 months ago
Bring a fake checkbook, fraud was a lot easier back in the '80s.
homes@piefed.world 2 months ago
Not that easy. Even back in the 80s, they frequently wrote your drivers license number down on the back.
sploder@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ah, a good ol hot check scam. The good days.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
"What i want to hear" always wins over truth, even if the former makes absolutely no sense.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 months ago
They also said “This guy really cares about Germany”, which is getting harder for Magats to pretend everyday.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 months 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 months ago
In the 80s my family still got most of our vegetables from cans. It was bad.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
or frozen ones that turned into mush once you cooked them. that was my mom’s speciality
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 2 months ago
I’ll take Rice a Roni, bob!
admant@lemmy.zip 2 months 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 months ago
Amazing book. I could read it again and again
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Good show. Great book
xxam925@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Pudding pops.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 months 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 months 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 months ago
Remember to bring clean period correct cash.
morto@piefed.social 2 months 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 2 months 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 months ago
You could take artificial diamonds back to the time before there were such things as artificial diamonds.
morto@piefed.social 2 months ago
TIL!
Hegar@fedia.io 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
There was some groovy shopping music.
tio_bira@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
grandma
his brain cancer
…what?
noseatbelt@piefed.ca 2 months ago
Some people whose first language doesn’t have gendered pronouns mix them up when they speak English.
LordMayor@piefed.social 2 months ago
Maybe, they transitioned before the diagnosis?
But, it was the ‘80s…
YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world 2 months 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 months 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 months ago
I want to go back in time and kill Ronny Reygun in the 60s.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You might appreciate this:
theedqueen@lemmy.world 2 months 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 months ago
There’s a magical place, we’re on our way there…
titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Mid 2000s toysrus was better for video games.
fixmycode@feddit.cl 2 months ago
get an early start on those babies
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
To smell the cigarette smoke inside the grocery store.
vane@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Why go back in time if there’s plenty of fascists to kill right here and now?
FukOui@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
You mean fascists with their own private militaries and lobby, chilling inside their 1B$ mega bunkers?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 months ago
You mean actual fascists and not just people you disagree with… right? Right???
thefluffiest@feddit.nl 2 months ago
I’m not a fascist
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Found one.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh no you didn’t!
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Downvoted by 8 fascists.