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Probably about two or three years before I was born. I was a 90s baby and lived through one of the best decades in human history in terms of childhood entertainment. Nick Toons, Razor scooters, sock’em Boppers, and Pokemon just to name a few. Also cartoons themselves were the best that television had to offer. Hey Arnold, Rugrats, and Dragon Ball Z, just to name a few. If you were a kid in the 90s, you were in your PJs, eating cereal and watching Saturday Morning Cartoons, while your Holographic Charizard sat in your sock drawer so nobody was knew where it was. And your Nintendo 64 with the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time was still warm because you threw a tantrum when you couldn’t beat the Water Temple. After Cartoons, you got your clothes on and went outside to play baseball with the boys while ignoring the girls because they have cooties and you don’t want to contract cooties, while secretly having a crush on one of them.

At the end of the day, your parents called you in for dinner because it was getting dark out and, with mud and grass stains littering your shirt, you laugh with all your friends, knowing that, after a dinner of spaghetti and meatballs, you where going back to your room to play on your N64 again untill 2 in the morning when your parents are finally fed up with the noise and tell you to go to bed.

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Im always stuck on the point that we never consented to existance, can I simply decline to be born in this hypothetical because I think thats my pick.

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Can I choose my gender? If not, then not any earlier than I was born.

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Exactly what I came here to say. Well, I would specify sex rather than gender. I wouldn’t want to be born female at any point in history.

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Yeah, that should have been sex, not gender.

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I guess at least there are those specific moments in history when, if you were to be born in a specific country, being a woman at least significantly increases your life expectancy.

If I knew what shit was about to go down and I had to be born in, say, Soviet Russia in 1925, I would probably have opted to be a woman. Not because it seems so darn great, but because chances of at least making it to age 30 would significantly improve.

Then again, not a point in history I would particularly favour.

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eeesh

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1-2 decades earlier maybe (meaning: 60s or 70s). Location… I don’t know. Maybe Norway, I’ve never heard anything bad about Norway. Might just be random selection bias though.

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Norway only discovered oil worth extracting December 23 1969. So you would not have grown up in a particularly rich country, but you would see the country gain incredible wealth as you grew older.

If you were born in the early 60s and bought a house in the early 80s, you’d be pretty fucked when the global economy crashed. But I guess that goes for everywhere. The 70s would probably be a better bet in that sense.

You’d probably not live in a city, but in some village in the middle of nowhere. So the wealth of the country would mostly be noticable through the social security web built around you, and the fact that your random village suddenly got a tunnel to it. If you’re a farmer you’d receive subsidies so it would be somewhat possible to keep going, even as your peers in continental Europe would run out of business one by one.

You’d probably secretly wish you would also go out of business so you could retire to something less taxing.

You would spend your childhood amazed by America, and jealous of the youth revolution going on there. You’d watch American movies and grow up idolizing American and British war heroes. You would think your stupid valley was the most boring place on earth.

In your old age, you would thank your lucky star you’re not in America. Maybe you’d get a house in Spain for the cold winters. Your family would think less of you for it, but they wouldn’t be vocal about it.

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I’d love to be born on earth in about three thousand years.

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That’s optimistic of you

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I’ve been to the year 3000, and your great great great granddaughter looks pretty fine…

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Awesome, I’m glad they’re healthy.

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Was referencing this … https://youtu.be/CxGj9kQa64c

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Oh, taking the Dr. Stone route? I know bushcraft and survival, can I come?

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