The Play Store is honestly full of malware, be careful.
It makes it even more of an insult that Google wants to mandate a registry of approved developer accounts in the name of “security” when they can’t even guarantee the security of their own store.
I used a MacBook for 10 years that was one of the first models to come without a disc drive, it was a 2013 model.
I recall it being a bit ahead of the curve at the time, but it was a pretty fast curve before you really couldn’t find a laptop with a disc drive anymore.
Wait how else would you pronounce ‘bound’?
And theaters are still closing left and right because there is no price point that can draw the crowds they once had. Tickets are too expensive, and concessions are too expensive on top of that. The business is just not sustainable any longer.
Some rice cookers have an extended “keep warm” setting where the temperature remains high enough to prevent the growth of bacteria, allowing you to start a batch in the morning and use it all day or even the next day if needed.
And then you fuck right?
2002… uff, that would be hard. As a ten year old there is so little you can do!
Yep, that’s the catch! You have the knowledge, but who’s gonna let a 10-year-old open an investment account? Or who’s going to believe that a presumably middle-of-the-pack 4th grader suddenly unlocked the secret to mRNA vaccines?
I’m with you, I think identity theft is probably the easiest way to start out (especially back then when it was so widespread, and not as many people knew what to look out for) but it becomes one more secret to have to keep covered up that can screw you over later if found out.
Yep. My household in 2002 had a computer, but that’s because I had a parent who worked in IT. Most people I knew at the time didn’t have one. By 2002, ~40% of the United States still did not have access to a computer at home, though the gap would keep closing year over year.
But that’s just data for the United States. Other countries may have had lower rates of adoption at that time, and in a scenario where you would be less likely to wake up in a random household with a computer, it would require a bit more thinking to figure out how to get access to one.
I’d probably look to schools and libraries as a place to start. If that’s not an option, then it’d be figuring out how to befriend a local rich kid who might have a computer. Otherwise, the USB is effectively a paperweight for some time and you’re left only with your memories of the future for guidance until computer access becomes more available.
Yeah, I picked that year for a reason. I was going to go with 2000 at first, but thought that people would feel too inclined to have stopping 9/11 be their first priority, thereby sending the world down a radically different trajectory.
Was thinking similarly regarding the stock market situation. I wanted to accommodate a window for people to game the stock market with prior knowledge, but wanted to leave everything after the 2008 global financial crisis a mystery, so capped its predictability to 2007.
Absolutely!
Luckily everyone gets a Wikipedia backup detailing all of the things people won Nobel Prizes for up until 2025, so you have that advantage going for you.
Problem is how to make it seem realistic for an 18-year-old to accomplish, and how to actually go about doing the thing on your own.
The youngest Nobel laureate was 17 at the time, though, so it is possible.
I guess more accurately I killed whatever 10 year old you magically mind swapped with, haha.
Might be my fault for including that as one of the example goals in the body of the post. I also put “Earn a Nobel Prize by age 18” for anyone who wouldn’t be motivated by money, I’d be interested to know those takes as well.
For the sake of the scenario, in addition to the details listed in the body of the post, assume the USB drive is type A and is readable by any PC with a USB type A connector, regardless of generation. It can also be read regardless of file system.
There’s an inherent supernatural element to the premise, so assume “it just works.” There can be a specialized browser on the drive as well if you feel like you wouldn’t be able to make use of the raw HTML files.
For any Israeli not spending the rest of their lives in jail, DNA tests for all of the rest. If they have markers that say their ancestors are from that area, they can stay. Every other one gets shipped back to their parent countries or any country that will take them.
Not sure I like the idea of genetic purity tests as qualifiers to live in a country, for any country.
Ah so he’s just a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.
Ah yes, the movie where they cast a French person as Scottish, a Scottish person as Spanish, and an American as a Russian.
Hey, some of us are 35-year-old edgelords
From what I’ve heard and read in the past, in addition to other comments here, there are probably two additional reasons why surgeries aren’t commonly recorded:
Patients probably wouldn’t like knowing how casual a lot of operating rooms are. While you’re unconscious, they’re often playing music in the background and having idle gossip.
Surgeons don’t want an additional element of stress caused by recording and additional regulation that would likely accompany that during situations that are already stressful.