Surely health insurance would be making a loss on this particular person.

Floppy disk. Fight me.

Fascinating!

Nah, my .de means nothing, it was just an arbitrary choice of instance for me.

Was changing your name not possible back then, or were you just not aware that it’s possible?

… a calculator, an electronic translator, an alarm clock, a video games console, an infinite DVD player, a spirit level, a personal weather forecaster, …

oh and I also think it can make telephone calls

I’m out of the loop, is that a thing? Best I know is that it’s highly manageable with treatment, not cured.

Wait, how old is consumer satnav? I am pretty sure it was available (albeit not too commonplace) when I was a kid in the late 90’s or early 2000’s. I really do take it for granted… As long as my government doesn’t deliberately scramble it for security reasons, which happened a lot in the past year.

Considering how many asterisks you need to add there, I wouldn’t say teleportation is “inevitable”.

Reminds me of this sketch: https://youtu.be/bewKPi9gdT4

It’s impossible to know how long such a change will take to diverge. I guess my weeks/months estimate is baseless, I’ll grant you that. But some changes will have faster effects than others.

For example, if you remove a very famous person or someone from royalty, it will change the news cycle, which millions of people read all over the place. Each person who reads or would have read the news about it would have their life slightly altered, so this one change causes millions of differences over a large area. With so many changes, it’s likely that one of them will turn out more significant.

According to my interpretation of chaos theory, virtually any change can cause you to not be born. Even if just considering the butterfly effect for weather: a few weeks or months after the change, the weather in the new timeline will completely diverge from the old timeline worldwide, and this will affect your parents’/ancestors’ behavior enough to change which genes get passed on, if they even still make a baby. And that’s only the weather, there’s a lot more chaos in the world.

The only exception is if the change happens just a short amount of time before you’re conceived, and far enough away. Then I can believe that it could work. But it would still affect your entire life, which might be subtly or totally different from your life in the original timeline.

All that out of the way, there are quite a few politicians and billionaires I’d like to nominate. Too many to list.

If I’m honest, I’ve never heard of elf on a shelf, other than in posts like this.

I understand, it’s the same in Hebrew

You ‘solved’ the random connect-the-dots that came up first when I searched for one to make my point, well done

I’m talking about connect the dots

I never considered that a puzzle, it just takes some time to do but it doesn’t require any thinking

Yeah, fair enough for the general case. I do think their situation is a good one though.

It worked for a friend of mine. They were friends, he kept trying to get her to date him and after a year of pestering she caved. They’re engaged now.

Why is the text so weird… Is this AI generated? It’s gotta be.

That word… I think it means exactly what you think it means.