At least, you’ll have an idea of what’s going on in your new dimension

  • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    40·
    6 days ago

    you’d probably have to find several by different tyoes of people, to make sure you aren’t reading a biased account :p

    • batdad90@lemmy.world
      14·
      6 days ago

      Exactly, depending on the world/kingdom/government you’d find yourself in, the local history books may be propaganda.

      • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
        7·
        6 days ago

        Even so, you may not have the real truth, but you’ll know what you need to navigate the society you are currently in.

      • Jolteon@lemmy.zip
        5·
        6 days ago

        Hot take, but the propagandized version would likely be better, since your goal is to find out the present day conditions rather than actual history. What a government wants its citizens to think (and more importantly, how it expects them to behave) is probably more important than finding out actual details of history that early in your stay.

    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      5 days ago

      The idea traveling to a other demension and reading something that is dramatically different there your dimensions history only to later find out, no, that guy was just a moron, and now you look like one too, is very funny to me.

      • ItsMeSpez@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 days ago

        I’m imagining our intrepid hero coming off a bender and to the conclusion that they’re in a different dimension. In their efforts to educate themselves about their new world they unwittingly fall fully for conspiracy YouTube videos; what a magical and strange world they’ve found themselves in.

    • Jolteon@lemmy.zip
      2·
      6 days ago

      If your only goal is to find out the current culture of the place you’re currently in, the biased one would likely be better.

  • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
    31·
    6 days ago

    First thing you do is find a public library. If the concept of a public library exists in this reality, you’re likely not completely fucked.

    If there is no public library, and no one has ever heard of one, you are DEFINITELY fucked.

        • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
          2·
          5 days ago

          but instead of selling a couple of shovels for a whole community, what if we discourage sharing so everyone who ever needs one has to buy one.

          So inefficient but profitable

          • Whelks_chance@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 day ago

            I’ve always thought each town needs perhaps a few dozen lawnmowers. I bet someone would forget to return it though.

      • grue@lemmy.world
        5·
        6 days ago

        Then you’ve won the dimensional jackpot and you should immediately start trying to thwart any misguided attempts from folks in your original dimension to “rescue” you.

    • toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      I always thought the library near where I grew up would be a near ideal environment during a zombie apocalypse. It was a repository of knowledge and entertainment, of course; it was in a fairly small city, meaning that while there might be more zombies than in the countryside, there wouldn’t be as many as in a large city - but there would be resources nearby; there was an armory nearby; there was only one relatively-easily-fortified entrance (to my knowledge); and it had a fully enclosed courtyard which, while it ended up being kind of depressing in real life, could give you a garden in a theoretical apocalypse.

      The first and last were most of what I considered when I was a kid.

  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
    13·
    5 days ago

    Most people wouldn’t even know they are in a different dimension. If you aren’t well versed in the history of your home, then you’re just learning new historical facts.

    “Huh, I didn’t know Hitler and Einstein were married. Weird.”