• bizarroland@fedia.io
      5·
      10 days ago

      If your parents didn’t meet and make you, then it is likely they would have met other people and made other people. Don’t put the curse of your existence off on some other poor sap. Stand up and drink your cup.

          • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
            0·
            10 days ago

            I’m already outside way more than normal. The problem is I’m completely disconnected. I’m an American without employment, I’m skirting my own destruction every day. Don’t have money for the pub and I gave up drinking last year due to doctors’ orders. If I had a choice between doing my life over again or never having existed I’ll take the latter.

            • andrewta@lemmy.world
              1·
              10 days ago

              @Houseofoliviereu@lemmy.world (hope I did that right to tag someone else)

              Wanted to tag house in on this comment

              But to neon: Instead of not having your life, go back in time with the winning lottery numbers, play the lottery number in a state where you don’t have to publicly say who you are, then move and re-create your life with funds to be able to do whatever you want.

  • scytale@lemmy.zip
    6·
    10 days ago

    Are are we applying butterfly effect mechanics here? If yes, the farthest I’ll probably go is the previous 24 hours to have the least impact on the things I don’t want to lose/change. Then I’ll probably bet on the lottery.

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
    6·
    10 days ago

    Assuming I could go back at some point, ancient Rome in its heyday would be a sight to see. I’d love to go sightseeing to almost any ancient civilization really. At least the ones where I wouldn’t immediately get killed.

  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    10 days ago

    I’d like to witness the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    10 days ago

    This timeline is already fucked so I really can’t make it any worse, so I’d go back just to fuck with the timeline.
    Take written volumes on mathmatics, science, and engineering and hand them out in Greece and Arabia a few thousand years ago and see what kind of world we end up with instead.

    • idealotus@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 days ago

      Monkey’s Paw answer is the same world we have today because the books are in English and/or the math symbols were not standardized back then.

      • palordrolap@fedia.io
        0·
        10 days ago

        This. The modern mathematical symbols, at least in their current use, are no older than 550 years. Heck, the numerals we use are about as old as that. The Arabic world had a head start with early versions of those numerals, but even then, those are only twice as old as the oldest mathematical symbols still in use.

        Prior to that, people wrote things out in words, or, as you suggest, invented their own symbologies and shorthands.

        I have a book around here somewhere that shows how Diophantus wrote a particular polynomial equation and it’s all Greek letters, some with macrons (overlines), some superscripts that don’t mean what we’d use superscripts to mean, and one large upturned capital psi in the middle of it. Mind-boggling.

        And they’d be more mystified by our notation than we are by theirs because at least we (or some of us) know what Greek letters and numerals are. They’d have no such head start.

        • Havatra@lemmy.zip
          2·
          9 days ago

          True, but I think if the book is given to the right (group of) people, their curiosity to figure out of the book will likely lead them to it being translated rather fast.

  • bizarroland@fedia.io
    4·
    10 days ago

    Assuming it’s a one way trip, I’d probably go to the year 1998, Impersonate my dad, Rescue child me from some shit, Win the lottery, Stop 9/11, and then die and leave my younger self with more money and power than he could reasonably cope with.

    • Havatra@lemmy.zip
      1·
      9 days ago

      That’s quite the plan - sounds like it could be a good movie (I feel like we already have movies like these, but can’t recall any on top of my head).

    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      10 days ago

      Congratulations, you stopped the 9/11, but the terrorists escape and they plan for something even worse:

      9/11 v2002: Nuclear Boogaloo?

      Global UN Patriot Act on Steroids?

      There would be a genocide of Muslins in the US, and perhaps Islamaphobic violence towards people who look “Middle-Eastern” all around the world. Aircraft having an emergency and deviating from flight plan with broken radios? It will get shot down immediately. MH17-like incidents will be commonplace around the world.

  • peteyestee@feddit.orgEnglish
    4·
    10 days ago

    All the way back. With the knowledge that I shouldn’t trust or put faith in people.

    Instead of seeking out truth I would just be an average person.

    I would leave home asap and not stick around a town of hate and crime.

  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    10 days ago

    1. Check the top meme on lemmy of all time.

    2. Go back to 1 minute before they posted that and post it before they do.

    3. I am now the person who posted the highest upvoted meme ever!

    4. The Original OP in the original timeline would be so confused while I stand in the spotlight of GLORY! 😎

    Also:

    • I ask c/asklemmy questions in which the OP didn’t answer their own question, right before they conceive the idea of asking that question, in order to see if they would answer their question that they originally posted in the original timeline to what they would answer. Basically use jedi-timetravel tricks to make people ask themselves questions from a different timeline.

    • Register a domain of a popular sites before they get registered

    I love time-trolling.

      • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        10 days ago

        OP is Original Poster.

        When a post is crossposted, the term OOP is used instead (Original Original Poster), as opposed to the OP of the crosspost.

        Its used in r/SubredditDrama or r/BestOfLegalAdvice where the OP would say “I’m not OOP”, in order to to reminds commeters to not direct their rage against OP.

        In this context, OOP refers to the user who originally posted it on the original timeline.

        • Dicska@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 days ago

          Ah okay, thanks for clearing it up! I had no idea that double-original-op was actually a thing, and made me question myself about the meaning of the acronym.

  • bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip
    3·
    10 days ago

    Look up last week’s lottery numbers, then head back to last week.

    I don’t wanna play the make money game anymore.

  • wabafee@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 days ago

    Go back where about to transition to homosepians and give ourselves a favor by eliminating every single one and give way to lizard people.

  • Tracaine@lemmy.world
    31·
    10 days ago

    To the point when humanity’s earliest ancestor dared leave the ocean. I’d kick it back into the sea. Civilization was a mistake.