Time travel as a sudden jump seems one of the least plausible implementations, since we have no idea how to do such jumps even in just space or forward in time; and allowing for it would break a lot of physics.

More plausible alternatives include a space-time bridge, meaning both sides can follow Earth's reference frame; or the Primer-type where one can reverse time in an isolated box in a way where you can only travel backwards along the Box' trajectory and you have to wait inside that box for some time while you move backwards in time along that trajectory.

There's no universal frame of reference. Any theoretical time travel would likely need a beacon of some sort to calibrate their arrival point, meaning you couldn't travel back beyond the point time travel was established.

I've seen this take a lot it feels like and it boggles the mind why. If someone figures out time travel they ipso facto will have figured out the space travel as well.

If you can travel through time you can travel through space.

lame-ass party

Since the time traveler would be from the future, he'd have already known that nobody went to the party.

Would you have missed Metallica in Moscow for some party you assumed nobody would attend? Fuck no.

Let's see... the egotistical pricks that sued anyone that wanted to like them... in an authoritarian shithole... or hanging out with Stephen Hawking...

Tough choice. Can I convince Lars to sleep in the disaster bed? Or help them with arrangements so that songs that have about 1 minute of interesting music don't have 8 minutes worth of filler?

More pragmatically, time travel for a casual party would be risky because you’re carrying germs many generations apart. Time travelers would wear full-body suits or risk dramatically altering history. They could not drink or eat anything.

What are the chances that visiting Steven Hawking is the most interesting/fun thing you can do, if you could freely time travel? I’d much rather go look at dinosaurs, or visit the construction of the pyramids, or go listen to Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech.

I would counter that if you have a time machine then you literally have all the time in the world and you can do all of those things, and more.

Likely lots of people who had contact with Epstein did nothing wrong, at least not on that level.

He was collecting powerful people, in science, business, government, anything. One way to do that is to offer access to other important people. The ability to say to someone "I can connect you with Stephen Hawking" is currency.

The pedophilia ring and sex trafficking is the exact same thing -- just a way to appeal to certain people.

I think it's more interesting to talk about who the fuck gave Epstein a private island in one of the most stupidly expensive spits of sand on the entire planet. Likely the same people who killed him.

It's a little ableist to suggest that his being wheelchair-bound would necessarily prevent him from being a pedophile.

You can spend your entire life thinking about it and you Will never reach a definitive answer. Or, you can spend a day to set up an experiment and throw a party.

You're missing the point completely.

You do not actually know if "paradoxical consequences" are a thing. Logic might, like everything we believe right now, turn out not to be how the world works.

Stopping yourself from doing an experiment because "current knowledge makes it seem impossible" is how science never advances.