The past is such a wonderful place!

I'd go back in time to fifteen minutes ago when I had my earphones

Like fuck dude

I just had it and I can't find the fucking things anywhere

You can't find them because you from 15 minutes in the future took them, duh.
- Well way to find out you're not in the prime timeline
- This is some Dark-level time paradox stuff.
Plot twist, you're wearing them, and having a brain fart.
- You underestimate my grasp of my own stupidity.
  I checked my ears three times before posting that
Have you checked the top of your head?
- what about your pockets?
I used to lose mine until I glued them onto a headband and used some paracord to tether it to my phone case.

This is pretty much how I see those who romanticize the past.

I want to be spoiled in an old school relationship.
You want your voting rights revoked and getting beaten up by your drunk husband, which is then your fault somehow? Not really my kink but if you insist.
- What ?
The only good old times were those before mankind started to mess up the entire planet.
- Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans.
- Mankind's been screwing things up since the start.
  The Sahara Desert used to be verdant
  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-really-turned-sahara-desert-green-oasis-wasteland-180962668/

Very few time travel stories every address this and other detriments to the past. For most of history, the past has been a pretty horrible place compared to today unless you are rich and usually male. Even you are those, you don't have to go far back to be victims of disease or injury commonly cured today. Depending on what part of the world you are in, and how far you are going back, your skin color, spoken language, or physical features may also put you in a world of hurt.

We still have a long way to go to be better, but as crazy as it seems, right now, is a really really good time for most of us compared to most of history with regard to freedom and health.

The only way I want to time travel is like...looking through a window to watch it.
Actually being there???
Fuck that, I like being alive and not not alive.
- I wouldn't mind the chance to occasionally go back in the past and talk to long lost loved ones, let them know I miss them and that everything's alright.
  Even if it was just limited to a time bubble and nothing I did in the past would change the present or future.
disease might be a particular issue beyond just that. Last thing you want is to give the past COVID or modern strains of the flu or whatever else, and in reverse, you dont want to bring back smallpox
Read Timeline by Michael Chricton

One side of my family was all farmers. I don't know much about that life, but I believe the youngest girl would be raising those two babies (while cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, etc), and those two boys would be working the field with the mother.

You don't need to go back in time for that.
Just go visit the Amish!
From what I've learn (mainly from mainstream media) I respect their choice to maintain thier culture and lifestyle. Something to be said from having no rat race and living a simple life off of the land.

Man, I remember the past like it was yesterday.

Anyone who would act like that couldn’t even hack it in a developing country today let alone going back in time. Remember, a dystopia is just a third-world country but with white people and that’s different because, uh, reasons.

That does kinda depend on the nature of the dystopia to be fair. Like, the ones that are just "a stratified society where the poor live in the dirt", or "an authoritarian regime", sure, but some dystopian fiction relies on tech that doesnt even exist to run.

I'll keep my organic farming and connection to nature, thanks.

Though I'd prefer to go back a few million years before humans even evolved.

Yeah, thanks, that comic was a little too black and white in 50% of the panels - acknowledging women's rights and their role in society and abolishing child labor doesn't mean that we did not process the shit out of food and invented the unholiest abominations as substitute for actual nourishment, or that it's suddenly healthy to live in a concrete block after spending 10 hours in cloned cubicle #7.
- Good news! With our new work from home policy you get to stay in your concrete block all day!
  Also, in nomadic neolithic societies women were treated as equals. Agriculture was a trap.
- The whole "processed food is bad for you" thing is junk science. What matters is what's in the food, not how "processed" it is.

Reminds me of a YouTube video giving thorough advice on what you should do if you would ever time travel back to medieval Europe.

https://youtu.be/-aSdFrPnlRg

this is a great video. I think you should post it in a community.
One of the biggest hurdles would be language. Even 50 years ago people sounded different. You go back 200, you would sound weird to the others. It would be disorienting. Might end up in jail or worse. Language is an organic thing that constantly changes.
- And if you travel into the future, your shits gonna be all fucked up and people will think you talk like a fag.

"Aww. They're just misunderstood invaders. We don't actually know their culture."

All the technology and progress in the world isn't gonna help if yr sat on by aristocrats.