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[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 18 points 1 month ago

The usual. Invest in bitcoin, not get married, become a girl 20 years earlier. Just common stuff.

[-] Lemming421@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Find Nigel Farage in the field after he survived his 2014 plane crash and… change that.

Possibly saving the country from Brexit even getting to referendum status, and if it did, possibly changing the result. And then maybe preventing the revolving door Tory governments that fucked up the initial Covid response, since most of what they’ve done over the last decade has been to try and swing voters away from UKIP/Reform rather then actually do things that are good fit the country as a whole.

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

So many dead billionaires and political figures... just like... a ludicrous amount.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago
[-] singletona@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

A worthless parasite that devours and destroys the lives of working people.

[-] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I think they were making a joke from the perspective of the future the OC made.

[-] Rappe@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

Come on, can't ask this kind of question without giving us the rules.

Paradox free? Does the future change? Do I go as my current self or is age adjusted? Do I keep my current knowledge and memories and skills? Do I get to go back? Do I get multiple tries to get the optimal outcome?

So many variables with these kinds of hypotheticals, I can't give you any meaningful answer without general outlines of the rules. Can't play the game if I don't know the rules.

[-] EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

Transition at a younger age. Would have saved me a lot of hurt in the years between

[-] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Easy, make sure I was never born.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

straight to the paradox, not playing around

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 points 1 month ago

Hitler, is that you?

[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I would use it once and promptly die in the coldness of space

[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Play the lottery. I don't know anything about the people who won big lotteries. Maybe it was me.

[-] dunz@feddit.nu 2 points 1 month ago

Can I go forward in time, and then back? In that case, I'd get some future numbers for the Euro Jackpot and play that line.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

I'd go to the future and check it out. The question also made me wonder how far into the future one would need to go before they wouldn't be able to speak the same language as anyone?

[-] demontcalm@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 1 month ago

I would go back in time and tell myself not to study physics and waste my life trying to invent time travel and then promptly vanish in a puff of logic.

[-] ptc075@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Go back in time and buy another 1997 F-150. The thing is an amazing example of do it simple & do it right, and it will last. But, it's also close to 30 years old, nearly every system on it is showing the tell-tale signs of age. I would love to have an actual new one, it would last me the rest of my days. (On a happy note, I just finished putting a rebuilt motor in mine. So, here's hoping for another 25+ years).

It saddens me that even if I could afford a new car at today's prices, I don't want what they're making.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Well, over two hours ago i forgot to start logging the tab during this test when i had to reconnect the system after the program crashed. Hopefully the engineering team isn't upset about losing that time and i dont get a chargeback.

So i would start there.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Well, I can think of a couple US presidents from the 20th century that could use a good showcase of the future they caused by throwing Americans under the bus. Either that, or just clone their voices, fake messages that incriminate their actions and get them impeached, release them publicly via distribution to all major TV news outlets discretely, and watch what happens. If nothing else, just getting rid of them completely might be a solution as well, in hopes their vice president doesn't make the same mistakes.

That, or go back to summer 2024 and tell the guy at that rally to aim a little to the left (or right) depending on which ear he shot.

[-] Lexam@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I'd sale time in a bottle.

[-] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Trump is the new Hitler

[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Gray’s Sports Almanac.

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

I’d go back and burn that fucking Almanac…

[-] Azal@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

Shoot John Wilkes Booth before he got into the theater.

[-] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Tell my grandfather to get his heart checked out. He died too young. I'd love to see just how much sense he'd beat into my father, who is a complete garbage can of a person.

[-] x4740N@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  • Erase fasciasts
  • Install utopia & a mix of solar punk and star trek like ideals
  • Install democracy everywhere
  • Save Harambee
  • Time Travel and observe real history from the safety of my time machine
  • Undo Brexit
  • Use butterfly effect to make me female but have my life be the same
[-] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Visit Granddad.

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