• bamfic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    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

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    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.

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

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

  • Mandy@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • Coriza@lemmy.world
      4·
      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.

  • benderbeerman@lemmy.world
    12·
    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

  • MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee
    3·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • fart_pickle@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 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.

  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
    20·
    4 days ago

    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)

    • knexcar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

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

  • bizarroland@fedia.io
    11·
    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.

  • moonlight@fedia.io
    14·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • moonlight@fedia.io
        1·
        1 day ago

        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.

        • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
          1·
          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.

    • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk
      4·
      3 days ago

      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

      What tech would you take back if you could though?

      • moonlight@fedia.io
        3·
        3 days ago

        I haven’t really thought through the details.

        It would probably take decades to prepare, and to figure out what the best approach would be.

        It also depends on how much I could bring back.

        If it’s just me and what I can carry, I think I would just bring a few things to demonstrate the tech. Maybe a high power flashlight and solar charger. The important part would be a detailed guide on how to re-enginer everything we have today, as well as the science behind it. Really, I think scientific knowledge would be the most impactful.

        If this was a huge operation with near infinite resources, I would send back a giant self sustaining compound with a general purpose factory. I think it would probably be possible to sustain a roughly 60s level of technology indefinitely on a small scale until the rest of the world caught up

          • moonlight@fedia.io
            1·
            1 day ago

            True, I wouldn’t want to get Galileo’d, and I would definitely want to stay away from Salem, haha. I think ~1750 would probably be a good time. Someone like Euler would take it seriously.