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Wow, imagine actually having dinner with Albert Einstein
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Just talk to him about socialism
if you don’t know how to have a conversation with a socialist wearing opened-toed flats, not sure how you manage to post here at all
If he were alive today he'd be a Crocs guy, 100%
That's even worse. I know all the spoilers for socialism. He'll start to say something about how neat it is what Rosa Luxemburg is doing and I'll have to 
while choking down my sawdust bread with a glass of river water.
Warn him.
"what's the dumbest patent that crossed your desk? wanna hear about the one for a car that locks you inside on fire?"
Dangerous dangerous territory. If you make fun of someone else's intelligence in the company of the person synonymous with genius, you now have to prove that you wouldn't submit a dumb patent. You have to come up with a really good idea on the spot KNOWING that Einstein can think of much better ideas with ease. Maybe your best patent idea will be the dumbest patent idea he has ever encountered.
I would simply have great ideas
Yeah like okay, water cooled pants. Done.
Don't get me wrong. I'd come up with something great on the spot too. I'd be like "uh, uh, uh, ..., how about, mmm, uh, computer".
I would never submit a patent. Have you seen how long those things are usually pending?
Einstein: Yea ookay whatever pal (dumbass mf)
Einstein: Oh you think everyone is a wordcel? Interesting...
i AM a bread eating simpleton so i would just sit there and enjoy our meal together.
bread eating simpleton
Funny way to spell "man of distinguished culture"
Thank you for adding another unlikely scenario I will plan for.
Putting this right next to my "whisked away into the medieval past" plans.
That's a careful walk between "Dazzle them with your future tech and knowledge" and "Play it cool so you aren't burned for witchcraft."
Or just grab some guns and ammo and speedrun regicide
I wonder how much a single person from today with moderate technological knowledge could change history.
Like, I can't build a generator or cpu, but I have some knowledge of electricity and logic gates and what modern technology is capable of. Especially if I work with someone properly smart but too early, like Newton (a little past medieval but still). He could probably turn my moderate knowledge into something useful.
materials science is a limiting factor. you could have wiring and a generator but what are you doing with those if nobody can make a lightbulb?
That's where the question has a lot of interesting back and forth between the limits of my knowledge and how well others can use that knowledge. I know incandescent lightbulbs basically use a filament that loses energy in the form of light (and heat although that isn't desirable). I know there's more to it, but could that description be enough to set Newton or someone else on the path of figuring out the rest and actually making it? Even if it doesn't happen in a single lifetime, it would probably end up happening much earlier.
Hand washing alone will save millions of lives
if you talk about your dog he'll think you're simple
No way if Einstein met my dog he'd be so charmed by her cuteness that he wouldn't care about anything else until he left.
I think Einstein would enjoy a good fart joke.
You can't just tell Einstein fart jokes the entire dinner. I'd run out of other kinds of jokes within 30 minutes and have to show him memes on my phone.
I'd have a delightful meal with him and then spread that twink's cheeks and [I am violently beaten and gulagged by the volcel vanguard]
Albert Einstein was apparently quite the bachelor, so I'd probably bond over freak shit with him. Also bratwurst.
"Hey, Al, you look like a king with that drip. Let's go to the bar and meet some girls. Also, is it just me or does capitalism fucking suck? I think we need socialism or communism or something, personally, but, I don't know, I'm not a genius or anything. What do you think?"
Lifelong friendship with Albert Einstein achieved. Dudes rock.
i'd commiserate with him over how annoying it is to do calculus on manifolds. took him like 10 years to learn it and figure out how to correctly develop GR with it.
Easy, talk to him about socialism.
Assuming I am from the future, I am extremely confident that I am the most interesting person at that dinner merely by being a time traveler.
i will make jokes about bratwurst being phallic, and he'd know about Freud too right? if he doesn't appreciate it, guess "i gave Einstein a wedgie" is almost as good
I would ask him about Bofa.
i'm too autistic to eat face to face with other people most of the time, but if i had the chance i would ask einstein about philosophy and religion and stuff like that. i'm too stupid at math to know enough about physics to talk about it in any detail with someone like einstein, but talking about the philosophical ramifications of the weirder side of physics or the philosophy of science or just epistemology or ontology in general would be interesting IMO.
10/10 bit
My rule is that if I get to talk with someone famous I won't be talking about what they're famous for. Like, if I get to talk to Biden (and couldn't [removed by reddit] him) then I'd just talk about his and my dogs
Once I saw the lead singer of a smallish band at a Whole Foods. I asked him if he was the singer of that band, he said yes, and I ran out of things to say. We were in the sushi section and I didn't want to talk to him about grocery sushi. I think I just said "cool" and walked away. I could ask Einstein if he's that physics guy, say cool, and stay quiet the rest of the dinner.
Just declare it's time for beanie
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