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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The fact there is a human person to ask anything to is answer enough for me.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Who said the person was human?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What dangerous substances were unknowingly used by people in the past millennium?

(Like radium, lead, asbestos, etc. seems for us now)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"Unknowingly"

Most plastic that we use shows evidence of endocrine disruption activity and it isnt just BPA as a byproduct of the manufacture of certain plastics. We know it is bad for the environment too. Microplastics are pervasive and also known to have negative health and environmental consequences.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Tell me, in detail, about Trump's death and how MAGA disintegrated.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Greetings! I am from the year 1024, can you tell me, in detail, about the death of Basil II Porphyrogenitus and how the Fatimid Caliphate will rise again?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Plot twist: he's frozen alongside Walt Disney, and now he is the Messiah of a new religion. It's followers knock on people's door to convert them. If you don't open the door they'll leave a Confederate flag and a maga hat, which is how they curse you for 3 generations.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

How do we stop climate change for real? Or, how do we reverse the plastic pollution problem?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What will be the lottery numbers for the next year?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Imagine some dude just blink in to your room and asks what the Viking lottery numbers are for 1025. Why would anyone know this? Lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Im sure they can ask their ai

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

"Not yet, but soon."

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Who from our time do people remember?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'd want to know what their favorite meal is. 1000 years would likely have a lot of culinary, agriculture, and food production changes. Maybe everyone eats cubes of flavored yeast.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Theyre really partial to the cockroach meal and protist gruel.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

What do your history books say happened around 2030?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I'd ask what I could do to make their modern day better.

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