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(DIR) Post #AuV7jE6EUgzSc5v1ua by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-26T23:23:00Z
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How long would you like to vacation in Ancient Rome? You will have local currency, an escort if needed, clothing etc.
(DIR) Post #AuV7sIa7CQp97WDpVw by libramoon@mastodon.social
2025-05-26T23:24:37Z
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@futurebird sounds like fun -- can I just stay?
(DIR) Post #AuV8B4GAfgV0CjqL20 by 990000@mstdn.social
2025-05-26T23:28:00Z
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@futurebird it would probably be complete suicide and torture but maybe worth it for just a month 😬
(DIR) Post #AuV8CAIJiicVD5N0oi by snork303@toot.community
2025-05-26T23:28:02Z
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@futurebirdNope. I coincidentally just watched a YouTube video where this guy made his own garum from an old roman recipe and that done did it for me. I don't think it was a life of pizza, and spaghetti like we imagine.
(DIR) Post #AuV8cctE1gbPQTFe2C by kevinriggle@ioc.exchange
2025-05-26T23:32:59Z
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@futurebird on the understanding that I never get a choice, eh, it would be the worst place I’ve lived but some places ain’t much better
(DIR) Post #AuV8eenZtqx5vRZuj2 by EverydayMoggie@sfba.social
2025-05-26T23:33:21Z
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Not Rome, but I would like to vacation that way in Tenochtitlan, or in Constantinople.@futurebird
(DIR) Post #AuV8mArx3pL7PxCzEu by Jirikiha@mastodon.cloud
2025-05-26T23:34:43Z
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@futurebird so long as I can steer clear of the leaded water, it might be interesting!A culinary tour of Ancient Rome! What did they _really_ eat? Were the feasts as lavish as the tales would have us believe? Oh, and the baths - must have a bath at each of the springs to complete the experience.I am decidedly not thinking about the disease, politics, and other social ills. It's a vacation after all.
(DIR) Post #AuV8sifaIugXzAXqKW by dexiheart@laserdisc.party
2025-05-26T23:35:53Z
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@futurebird i do not wish to go backwards in time it's already bad enough in this timeline lol
(DIR) Post #AuV96bMCHzlhMN619E by mostlyboring@techhub.social
2025-05-26T23:38:25Z
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@futurebird oh crud. I might have misinterpreted your use of the word escort there.... Can I change my vote?
(DIR) Post #AuV9aNT6UW9ayMWbCa by AMS@infosec.exchange
2025-05-26T23:43:48Z
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@futurebird So basically TwoFlower situation?
(DIR) Post #AuV9cLmTji8sJmWnL6 by Dingsextrem@mas.to
2025-05-26T23:44:10Z
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@futurebird republic rome or fascist dictatorship rome?
(DIR) Post #AuV9yeDtqhEjt1zCwy by krypt3ia@infosec.exchange
2025-05-26T23:48:10Z
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@futurebird Will I have volcano insurance?
(DIR) Post #AuVAQqpaZC11673zNY by Ronnie@mastodon.social
2025-05-26T23:53:16Z
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@futurebird @lisamelton I want to stay longer but I think we might die quickly. I’ll take a day.
(DIR) Post #AuVBF9VZOqG1VEgXhY by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2025-05-27T00:02:13Z
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@futurebird The food is bad. I pass.
(DIR) Post #AuVBJcanCu1WreG7nc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-27T00:03:12Z
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@michael_w_busch Bread? Olive oil? What more do you need! The wine might not be that good either... though I suspect some of it might have been very nice.
(DIR) Post #AuVBYgn9sMsiETEBkG by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2025-05-27T00:05:55Z
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@futurebird I can't eat the wheat or the barley.(Rome was not a great place for those of us with celiac.)
(DIR) Post #AuVBhII6L5KeqmnvTU by Wendelin@ohai.social
2025-05-27T00:07:26Z
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@futurebird Maybe for a day as a man. Not as a woman.
(DIR) Post #AuVBu97hjfZyBL4NQ8 by aatch@mastodon.nz
2025-05-27T00:09:36Z
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@futurebird a week is probably enough. The lack of modern conveniences isn't a big deal and given that it's a vacation I don't have to worry about many of the realities of day-to-day life in the ancient world.
(DIR) Post #AuVD5yfIXp1ZAwzKjI by joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social
2025-05-27T00:23:07Z
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@futurebird @michael_w_busch I'd like to try the Roman garum and find out if it tastes like southeast Asian fish sauce.
(DIR) Post #AuVExMXAdBIwVQCrHk by floatybirb@mastodon.social
2025-05-27T00:43:58Z
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@futurebird A few months to get a feel for the place, assuming that I won't bring any terrifying future diseases back through the time machine and also that I won't catch any terrifying past diseases.
(DIR) Post #AuVFgaM85WYoPAbdMu by pattykimura@beige.party
2025-05-27T00:52:07Z
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@futurebird Nope. Here's why, singularly: Human enslavement. Can't do it.
(DIR) Post #AuVFoxVdt7YCWy33ke by maudenificent@aus.social
2025-05-27T00:53:37Z
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@futurebird i would only go if i could be invisible.there are some places i would not go at all, not even in 2025
(DIR) Post #AuVGYwBL9iKDjbTbQO by mzedp@mas.to
2025-05-27T01:01:56Z
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@futurebird It would take some 20 days just to get from Rome to Constantinople, so definitely a few months, so I could see more than one place.
(DIR) Post #AuVGxr7B8G0ZG6PawC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-27T01:06:31Z
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@mzedp The boats were small and they couldn't avoid storms with radar so... I hope you don't get sea sick.
(DIR) Post #AuVH1U7Ia2nN5dCMrY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-27T01:07:09Z
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@mzedp Gonna end up like the Antikythera mechanism holding my cellphone.
(DIR) Post #AuVHNivcBxpLOjL0bY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-27T01:11:05Z
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@angelastella Aw with a guide and money I think most people would be fine. And if you have some exotic good to trade as your cover story.
(DIR) Post #AuVHflrO1wKphexvs0 by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
2025-05-27T01:14:24Z
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@futurebird I figure any time travel over millennia will involve a big infectious disease problem. Never mind the lack of modern medicine--there's the simple problem that the bacteria and viruses of the era and the ones I'm carrying with me are going to be different in detail, like the Columbian exchange. The chance that I'd either get deathly ill or be the source of an epidemic is significant.
(DIR) Post #AuVI69RkxTuqNvYZ3Q by rivas@mathstodon.xyz
2025-05-27T01:19:09Z
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@futurebirdWill I have antibiotics?
(DIR) Post #AuVIGX8BksuujjM1xo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-27T01:21:05Z
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Day SixThey are still not impressed with the idea of using place value and zero and think my ideas about germs are a silly superstition. I'm so mad they don't have tomatoes. I thought I liked Italian food. Oysters are cheap at least.
(DIR) Post #AuVIpkHupWnXg3h7hY by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
2025-05-27T01:26:12Z
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@futurebird (If I did go back I'd go around asking everyone what was up with those dodecahedra, and they'd probably say "we don't know, that's some weird Allemani shit from up north")
(DIR) Post #AuVJ334eINO1hopg3s by tuban_muzuru@ohai.social
2025-05-27T01:29:51Z
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@futurebird Were I granted the boon of time travel, I would never return to an era without running hot water and a flush toilet.No.
(DIR) Post #AuVJTZ1I8zXMJTuD4a by MishaVanMollusq@sfba.social
2025-05-27T01:34:37Z
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@futurebird un there’s no Italy yet.These a Romans and Latins.Larks tongue in aspic kind of eaters
(DIR) Post #AuVJyAcmtXh7d72RO4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-27T01:40:10Z
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@MishaVanMollusq My disappointment is immense.
(DIR) Post #AuVK8NsGUJBzcQ9EtU by victorvonvortex@mastodon.social
2025-05-27T01:41:59Z
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@futurebird Are my accommodations in a police box and is my escort named The Doctor?
(DIR) Post #AuVKc2st5nONCtaCgK by AMS@infosec.exchange
2025-05-27T01:47:22Z
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@futurebird Maybe see about getting coffee going a millennia earlier? It'd be in Aksum then.
(DIR) Post #AuVKfNTB0sozv695qS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-27T01:47:59Z
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@AMS Heck they don't even know about tea.
(DIR) Post #AuVKsJGpw7U8f4XYxM by AMS@infosec.exchange
2025-05-27T01:50:18Z
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@futurebird Yeah, but Tea is a world away. Aksum is a trading partner.
(DIR) Post #AuVMnF9i0ZHkMLuzc8 by runoutgroover@mastodon.nz
2025-05-27T02:11:45Z
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@futurebird Romans schomans, but if your tour company expands to Minoan Crete, ancient Etruria or Harappa I'd definitely be interested.
(DIR) Post #AuVP8GLywuOi43oFVY by catmisgivings@stranger.social
2025-05-27T02:38:01Z
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@futurebird spa day
(DIR) Post #AuVQ6Q5dsVczdWqrtQ by MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social
2025-05-27T02:48:52Z
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@futurebird I would love to see the wonders of the ancient world, but between being a woman and a Christian I can't see staying for longer than a week. 😬
(DIR) Post #AuVQUzI2enUDl1MmAK by bruce@darkmoon.social
2025-05-27T02:53:15Z
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@futurebird @mzedp Depending on the time of year, the trip could take a while. The Mediterranean is often becalmed in the summer.
(DIR) Post #AuVRROFm0ACryZ9aqm by KanaMauna@sauropods.win
2025-05-27T03:03:53Z
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@futurebird Oh yes, clothing, freshly bleached with urine. Sounds lovely.
(DIR) Post #AuVT5Gn9GNlCN5LQki by la_sombra@chaosfem.tw
2025-05-27T03:22:14Z
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@futurebird No interest at all in going myself, but those who are, please grab some viable silphium seeds if you can.
(DIR) Post #AuVTJR71gjLwQzOhdI by Lassielmr@mastodon.scot
2025-05-27T03:24:50Z
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@futurebird hell no. As someone who lives near Rome part of the year, I’m knowledgable enough to know unless part of the Ancient Roman elite life was utter crap.
(DIR) Post #AuVTtIfcYKtQg1gDgW by Jorsh@beige.party
2025-05-27T03:31:19Z
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@futurebird No thank you. Too much wine, lead and warfare.
(DIR) Post #AuVZ5RZrlGtfY1b9A8 by undead@masto.hackers.town
2025-05-27T04:29:28Z
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@futurebird No, because I´m not into lacing everything I drink with lead.Water there would not be considered potable. Your choices often would be tea (lead), or mulled wine (lead), or possibly weak beer (probably less lead, but still lead).
(DIR) Post #AuVZDt0tdgHAxJGcPA by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2025-05-27T04:31:02Z
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@futurebird I am an anthropologist - of course i had to go for a few months! 😄
(DIR) Post #AuVbvlxFRdCfiGcBLk by Kierkegaanks@beige.party
2025-05-27T05:01:14Z
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@futurebird For as long as my vaccines keep me safe and my food packs last!
(DIR) Post #AuVc3xChVJoYv0kBKC by Tijgertje1987@mastodon.online
2025-05-27T05:02:52Z
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@futurebird considering I’m a female…No thank you
(DIR) Post #AuVcLoiXnM2voL9k9I by MFDoomer@mstdn.social
2025-05-27T05:06:05Z
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@futurebird how long would I want to vacation in an empire where slavery is legal and has conquered, destroyed, then oppressed countless cultures?hmm? I guess the air would be clean though.
(DIR) Post #AuVgB9uj2wBaBL1kae by caitp@mstdn.social
2025-05-27T05:48:59Z
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@futurebird hmm.. would modern immune systems and vaccines be a match for historical pathogens? would it smell bad?
(DIR) Post #AuVklNfRmueH4zPNK4 by happykhan@mstdn.science
2025-05-27T06:40:21Z
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@futurebird what's the attraction. Ther s a lot of risk involved
(DIR) Post #AuVlKNT4WQ7qb0J8Iy by fritzoids@mas.to
2025-05-27T06:46:41Z
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@futurebird i'd have to get a smallpox vaccine and a tuberculosis vaccine first. And I need to know if I can take some antibiotics with me. Oh... and can I choose the year of Ancient Rome I'm vacationing in?Other than that I think I'd handle it like any trip: eat only cooked things or things I can peel.
(DIR) Post #AuVmdd6EjBLoX6N2A4 by SalemsLot@mastodon.social
2025-05-27T07:01:21Z
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@futurebird I would resort to eating boiled food and water, as I don't want the parasites. There still is a lot of variety to choose from, even if I can't take part in the social gatherings (no latin, sorry, my escort will be translating I guess).The other thing is, can I bring back a bag of silphium seeds as a souvenir?
(DIR) Post #AuVnTLMNvbDWZaaCR6 by ShaulaEvans@zirk.us
2025-05-27T07:10:41Z
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@futurebird What class / race / gender am I when I get there?
(DIR) Post #AuVsPzz3RokNB4tXEm by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-05-27T08:06:10Z
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@futurebird they'd have garum.
(DIR) Post #AuVyu198Hzo7CCJ1u4 by phaphapha@piaille.fr
2025-05-27T09:18:45Z
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@futurebird at least one day, to take a trip to the baths and taste the food. I'll be keeping my hand sanitizer just in case, tho 😄
(DIR) Post #AuWEGQf3bYE60oNoDg by jgamble@fosstodon.org
2025-05-27T12:10:55Z
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@futurebird One day should be sufficient to get samples of silphium and secretly record the methods of making concrete.I'd need longer to hunt down lost manuscripts, and frankly I'd leave that job to someone else.
(DIR) Post #AuWGX972IsFsPuZL1c by JamesWidman@mastodon.social
2025-05-27T12:36:21Z
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@futurebird i hope the start trek writers will work something like this into a script at some point."who doesn't love midwestern american food?" [uses extremely spicy fruits from like 5 different planets, and has done so for several generations]
(DIR) Post #AubOOGNj8wWblcdYOW by sleet01@fosstodon.org
2025-05-29T23:57:56Z
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@futurebird They have public baths _and_ TP _and_ bidets in modern Japan, what need have I of Rome?
(DIR) Post #AubRfVD7YwKoXlaVou by andytiedye@sfba.social
2025-05-30T00:34:39Z
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How about 4 years@futurebird
(DIR) Post #AuboLItFxROLUEdMhM by purrperl@mastodon.social
2025-05-30T04:48:44Z
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@futurebird The morals of ancient Rome, plenty of local currency, and an escort? Awesome!Clothing? No, thanks! I have an escort. 😆
(DIR) Post #AubwRfKoDpq6T349nE by andytiedye@sfba.social
2025-05-30T06:19:32Z
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The Library at Alexandria was still a going concern back then. Could certainly spend some time there.@futurebird @mzedp
(DIR) Post #AucNVwJ7kzxn1pXYqO by florian@owo.ff15.eu
2025-05-30T11:22:42Z
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@futurebird picking a week or two, but three would probably be my sweet spot. After that I would presumably still feel like I've only scratched the surface of what I could learn, but my chocolate stash would almost certainly be running dangerously low and I'd really be looking forward to a warm shower.