At least, you’ll have an idea of what’s going on in your new dimension
Make sure to assume it’s all propaganda as well
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.
Like looking at a git log when you clone a new repo.
you’d probably have to find several by different tyoes of people, to make sure you aren’t reading a biased account :p
Exactly, depending on the world/kingdom/government you’d find yourself in, the local history books may be propaganda.
Even so, you may not have the real truth, but you’ll know what you need to navigate the society you are currently in.
Perhaps even written by Victoria.
Not sure how many people in this dimension have read one.
(Obvious comment is obvious)
I can think of 77 Million who haven’t.
I’m sure they’ve read the Bill Cooper collected works.
You should read Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert Heinlein. This is basically the main theme
funny that Heinlein is mentioned. dude was a libertarian Nazi propagandist.
take all his works with a pound of salt.
Uh, curious where you got that from, especially since I don’t see how you can be both a Nazi and a libertarian. Did you misinterpret Starship Troopers to be straight endorsement of militant fascism?
I’d go with water.
Sorry the dimension you’ve been transported to has laws of physics that don’t allow water to exist.
Which means you’ve got a few precious seconds to get yourself home before you violently erupt as your water molecules each individually break apart in to hydrazine.
The printing press is a very new invention in our universe. Before then books were for the rich. Often too history is written by the victors and so it missing a lot of important details that might or might not matter.
Come to think of it intelligent life such as could write books seems to be new. (but we have no ability to detect life elsewhere if it exists so who knows)
First you have to realise you infact are in alternate dimension.
Easy. Just look for how to spell “Berenstain Bears”.
That’s not how it’s spe…
…wait a minute!!
Or a newspaper from a seemingly trustworthy source
Then you find out that it is a pseudo-rational populist newspaper (like WELT or anything in the US I guess) and you are fooled.
Depends on how exotic the alternate dimension is, I suppose – maybe a physics or chemistry book, or a local language to a language you speak dictionary, might be preferable in some cases.
I’d recommend holding your breath for as long as possible first.
