Bad idea. Last time someone did this we ended up with this timeline.

I would go back in time and meet the people who wrote the first ever USB standard. Then I would convince them that all USB connectors have to be reversible from day one so that nobody will ever need to struggle with the 20/80 odds of getting it right on the first try. Come on, it’s two possibilities and the probability of the wrong one is at least 80%. What’s the deal with a connector like that?

I'd stop the guy who went back in time to stop the first guy from smoking stuff.

Go back to 1911 and convince Taft to concede the Republican nomination to Roosevelt. That allows Roosevelt to stomp Wilson, get the US into the war before Russia left, and get the war over with years earlier.

This prevents both Stalin and Hitler from rising to power, and prevents most of the European theater of WW2, as well as a host of other knock-on effects.

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Stop that kid from falling into Harambe’s enclosure by any means necessary.

I'd go back and convince that art school to accept a certain art student...

I'd like to say something noble like warn Amelia Earhart, or hookup Adolph with some Bob Ross videos. But if I'm being honest, I would probably be selfish. I would tell past me to not fuck up quite a few things that past me royally fucked up.

As we learned from the Butterfly Effect, changing the past only results in Ashton Kutcher getting more power.

My net worth.

I'd have Al Gore win.

Save the gorilla, save the world

I would've gone to bed earlier tonight

Warn about how plastic (especially single-use) is a major pollutant, with microplastics managing to get into our organs with long term consequences we are yet to grasp.

It did push our technology and way of living forward, but at what cost?

I'd go hunt down Ronald Regan at about age 30 and empty an entire magazine of .45s into his dome while he slept.

I would make sure my parents never met.

i would not eat the kiosk chili dogs i ate earlier—they were pretty fucking bad.

I'd find the first motherfucker that started smoking stuff, whether it was first tobacco or whatever, and get rid of him/her before anyone else ever learned of the practice/habit.

Would have been better health for countless people afterwards, if simply nobody ever knew..

I think saving JFK would really alter the timeline. I doubt Nixon would have ever been president.

Preventing the Iranian hostage crisis might also have had a huge impact.

I would try to save the roman republic and prevent the roman kindgom. It would also be interesting to see what would have happend if they never switched to christianity.

I'd go back and write a book with just enough truths to cement myself as a soothsayer. I'd then warn of wars, eco disasters, pandemics, natural disasters. Then I'd invest some money in some good places and make sure it made it to my kids after I'm gone.

I'd tell my younger self what to invest in.

There would be a rather catastrophic malfunction of a certain golden escalator in 2015.

A lot of things I didn't mean to, most likely.

I would prevent Lewis Powell from authoring the document that outlined how to capture the courts and put us under the control of unelected judges.

I would try to prevent the Holocaust from happening.