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If you had a one-way ticket to Jan 1, 1999 that departs on Jan 1, 2024, and you are allowed to bring whatever fits into a backpack with you, what would you bring to use to take over the world, and how (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Bizarroland@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Assume that the future can change based on your actions, so any historical information that you bring along with you from the intervening 25 years may quickly drift out of the new realities history.

Edit: also assume that you can be given a healthy 21-year-old body if you want or take your previous self's place.

Further, identification will be provided for you if you were not born at that time.

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[-] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Do the whole Back to the Future thing and take back a list of lottery winnings, stock picks, etc. Just keep slyly moving things around at the proper times and you'd have no trouble becoming the next Bezos.

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 1 points 2 years ago

Not a bottle of Vodka and Champagne, I mixed both of those to excess the last time around - never again

[-] Froyn@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Future weed.

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[-] sciencesebi@feddit.ro -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

How the fuck do you take your self's place? You're either a your current age trying to identify as a baby or you're a baby which doesn't have the mental capacity to remember having the historical info.

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