Post AbgFfrMJw7dzArzdIW by stylinstainless@mastodon.online
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 (DIR) Post #AbgDrLNsRbs7ZZ4NDE by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
       2023-11-11T00:23:24Z
       
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       Sometimes i like to spin out alternate timelines that'd arise from changing seemingly random and inconsequential but actually massively impactful things (e.g. "a persistent, undiagnosable fault in harvard dorms' electical system, throughout 2004;" or  "due to unforseen delays, Randolph Severn Parker, III, is unable to register for his film classes at the University of Colorado Boulder").Today's thought: "Police Drama Adam-12 Cancelled in Season 2."Like, if dragnet fails, that's one thing, but it doesn't signal "gailure of the genre" as much as adam-12's failure would. If the second major attempt fails, then the story of cop shows becomes "Lightning in a bottle," and "flash in the pan."
       
 (DIR) Post #AbgEiAfV12upgbVBrc by Nazani@universeodon.com
       2023-11-11T00:32:46Z
       
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       @Wolven I assume you're familiar with A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbgFfrMJw7dzArzdIW by stylinstainless@mastodon.online
       2023-11-11T00:43:45Z
       
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       @Wolven I sometimes wonder what would have happened if "Doctor Who" had ended in 1964.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbgG1BLeoOcfFdqlns by mybarkingdogs@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-11-11T00:47:34Z
       
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       @Wolven Sometimes I like to think of what would have happened had Stanislav Petrov *not* saved the world.He had too good of a heart and cared too much, sadly(e.g. had we had total nuclear destruction of the northern hemisphere in 1983 many of us, including me, wouldn't even be alive, but US hegemony and non-communist Russia trying their own hand at hegemony - and both countries polluting the world with fossil fuels to the point of irreversible collapse - would not have happened)
       
 (DIR) Post #AbgHiY6ICB7uDpuFMW by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
       2023-11-11T01:06:38Z
       
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       Per Bourdain: "henry morton stanley disappears somewhere within in the central congo"
       
 (DIR) Post #AbgrQfzLj4ZNp8R4E4 by fkaOctaviaKeats@wandering.shop
       2023-11-11T07:46:48Z
       
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       @Wolven That is intriguing. How does this compare with the dwindling of US cowboy shows on tv?