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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wouldn't go anywhen. My dissatisfaction is intrinsic and the year is irrelevant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not even with someone else's dick.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

i just squirted so hard grumblebunny pls say acab i'll literally die

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Definitely need to go back a few years for some stock trades ........

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Fun in this thread to identify who is a white man by whether they'd even consider being safe visiting the past

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I would go back to the inception of Bitcoin start some kind of shop, maybe pizza ice cream and donuts and offer products for Bitcoin. Any profits I Madoff non-Bitcoin sales I would sink directly into getting people to give me more Bitcoin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Would be funny if you caused an early blitz that petered out, and then the coin never became the number one coin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

You're right you'd probably have to be careful. Might need to balance the purchasing with mining.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

August of '69. The first Woodstock.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As a woman I'd rather not go into any distant path.
So i choose last year and slap myself before I do an especially stupid thing that caused me near financial ruin and drained what little savings I had.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

That is the way to go. Any point in time in the past is generally worse than the present. So just go back enough to fix something in our own life'and maybe play the lottery or some stock trading to get set for life.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'd go back 9 months prior to June 14th, 1946 and yell "Wait! For the love of God, use a condom!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

For anyone wondering, yes this is the birthdate of the detestable newspaper tycoon Ralph McAllister Ingersol II

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Just kick him in the balls before he climaxes

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

I'd probably go back to around 2000 and tell myself that my stupid decisions were going to catch up to me in about 24 years, and they will definitely cost me the relationship I have with only person in this world who had ever genuinely loved me, and that it will drive her mad and she will react in a most brutal and callous way.

I would remind myself that the way I think other people are feeling is almost always wrong, to some degree, and that i should listen better to her about her feelings while I still have a chance to salvage what was once true love.

I would explain that, if I'm not careful, I will misinterpret everything she says about her feelings, and i will lose all my friends and hobbies, one by one, trying to be someone for her that she doesn't even want.

I would describe the way it feels to be with her, then illustrate the way it will feel when she starts dating other guys while you beg her to please work with you on your relationship, and that it would already be too late no matter how much you want it to work.

I would suggest that, if I decide to proceed while ignoring all my other advice, then I should at least not buy a house with her in 2023 when she is so insistent. Just hold out for one more year before making that mistake.

She wanted to be my forever person, and i didn't know how to deserve that. We were fucking teenagers when we got together, and neither of us knew how to be. We were just spitballing.

And I'm a fucken dumdum.

I probably wouldn't listen to me anyway

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] python 1 points 1 day ago

Hell yea, punch that kid before he can derail the timeline

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'd go back a few million years whenever fish decided to crawl onto land and yeet them back into the ocean.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

If you just wait long enough those fish turn into mammals and go back in the water on their own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Turn the fuck back around!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I would go back to my teen years just to relive it again. Assuming I could repeat the process when I read this post I would do it over and over again. I wouldn't change anything, I would just enjoy the ride.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Was there every a better moment to see if you can ride a T-rex? See the dinosaurs walk the earth, experience the wild nature that must have been around back then. I bet we don't know about a lot of the amazing things from that time.

Of course you would have a hard time trying to survive, but it would be cool. Dangerous, but cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are we assuming we can go back? Or are you just stuck with dinos as your friends now?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

You can go back, but not forwards /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

20,000 bce. tell the first person to come up with social hierarchy to fuck off

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is it one way? If so, I will pass.

If not, I would take my kid to see some of the big steam engines of the past that we can't anymore, take a ride on an established safe train/route. (Or maybe buy some old Lego to take home)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I’d do something g similar except ride all the electric interurban trains that no longer exist.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

I'd definitely pull a Biff Tannen

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

I probably go back to when I was a kid and my mom kidnapped me and since I look so much like my dad kick in the door and raise myself as my own father.

Use my knowledge of the future too make myself incredibly rich and give my younger self all of the advantages and opportunities of life.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Depends on the rules.

Round trip to a 'read only' version of the past? I'd like to see the dinosaurs.

Round trip that can make changes? Probably a few hundred or even thousand years ago, so I could give them modern technology, information about climate change, try to educate people on social issues, etc. I'd create detailed instructions and try to make a religion out of it. There's no guarantee it would work, but I'd hopefully return to a solarpunk utopia. Honestly not sure if I would try this, as it would basically overwrite everything I've ever known.

One way trip? I'd probably pass, unless I can de-age. I would definitely want to go back to being a child with all my current knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You could visit late 1700s or early 1800s and start a company that makes renewable energy. Maybe something like wind power, wave power etc, should be achievable with the technology available at the time. If your company becomes successful enough, you could compete fossil fuels out of the market. Then, invest that money into developing energy storage technologies to outcompete the internal combustion engine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s a good idea, and it could make a one way trip worth it if it meant becoming super powerful. I’d also focus on medical technology, and maybe computing.

Although I’m a bit unsure of whether I could really create enough broad social change just from that. My goal would be liberation for people of all races, genders, and sexual orientations, the dismantling of capitalism and power structures, etc.

The other option would be to do far back enough so that I could be some sort of god king, which would be a lot more work technologically, but might be easier to create a religion that would canonize my instructions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Oh, in that case… I guess you might need to bring anthrax with you and eradicate the early humans when they were all still conveniently in one continent.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

2500 BC. Egypt. Just sit and look at those aliens build the pyramids.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Someone's gonna be disappointed

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you implying that the big triangles were made only by the giants without alien intervention?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No I'm saying that there is no triangle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just like the moon and birds?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yup, birds are just FBI surveillance tool and moon is just a cardboard cutout placed somewhere that is why you can see the moon during daytime also.....πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Glad to see people of culture in here πŸ˜„

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Big pass on a one-way ticket. I'd quite like to see a dinosaur though....

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It should be a very short glance though...

Time Traveler Causes of Death

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