• wabafee@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 天前

    Go back where about to transition to homosepians and give ourselves a favor by eliminating every single one and give way to lizard people.

  • bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip
    25·
    2 天前

    Look up last week’s lottery numbers, then head back to last week.

    I don’t wanna play the make money game anymore.

    • bizarroland@fedia.io
      9·
      2 天前

      If your parents didn’t meet and make you, then it is likely they would have met other people and made other people. Don’t put the curse of your existence off on some other poor sap. Stand up and drink your cup.

          • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 天前

            I’m already outside way more than normal. The problem is I’m completely disconnected. I’m an American without employment, I’m skirting my own destruction every day. Don’t have money for the pub and I gave up drinking last year due to doctors’ orders. If I had a choice between doing my life over again or never having existed I’ll take the latter.

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
    14·
    2 天前

    Assuming I could go back at some point, ancient Rome in its heyday would be a sight to see. I’d love to go sightseeing to almost any ancient civilization really. At least the ones where I wouldn’t immediately get killed.

  • quediuspayu@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 天前

    To the middle of the carboniferous to check if it is true the hypothesis of the delayed fungal evolution. Forests growing for millions of years and wood not decaying? The mountains of dead trees is something I want to see.

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
    9·
    2 天前

    I’m going to 1450 and giving the natives guns before the Spaniards and the Portuguese arrive.

    Without them, anglos probably won’t bother either.

    • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 天前

      Bring books on crossbow manufacturing. It’s documented that Chichimeca obsidian tipped arrows could pierce through chainmail. Most areas practicing agriculture in the Americas will either have or have access to raw materials required for the manufacturing of crossbows.

  • bizarroland@fedia.io
    10·
    2 天前

    Assuming it’s a one way trip, I’d probably go to the year 1998, Impersonate my dad, Rescue child me from some shit, Win the lottery, Stop 9/11, and then die and leave my younger self with more money and power than he could reasonably cope with.

    • Havatra@lemmy.zip
      1·
      1 天前

      That’s quite the plan - sounds like it could be a good movie (I feel like we already have movies like these, but can’t recall any on top of my head).

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      5·
      2 天前

      Calling a bomb threat on the plane just before takeoff. That’ll really confuse things but it’ll get the job done.

    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 天前

      Congratulations, you stopped the 9/11, but the terrorists escape and they plan for something even worse:

      9/11 v2002: Nuclear Boogaloo?

      Global UN Patriot Act on Steroids?

      There would be a genocide of Muslins in the US, and perhaps Islamaphobic violence towards people who look “Middle-Eastern” all around the world. Aircraft having an emergency and deviating from flight plan with broken radios? It will get shot down immediately. MH17-like incidents will be commonplace around the world.

  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    2 天前

    1. Check the top meme on lemmy of all time.

    2. Go back to 1 minute before they posted that and post it before they do.

    3. I am now the person who posted the highest upvoted meme ever!

    4. The Original OP in the original timeline would be so confused while I stand in the spotlight of GLORY! 😎

    Also:

    • I ask c/asklemmy questions in which the OP didn’t answer their own question, right before they conceive the idea of asking that question, in order to see if they would answer their question that they originally posted in the original timeline to what they would answer. Basically use jedi-timetravel tricks to make people ask themselves questions from a different timeline.

    • Register a domain of a popular sites before they get registered

    I love time-trolling.

      • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 天前

        OP is Original Poster.

        When a post is crossposted, the term OOP is used instead (Original Original Poster), as opposed to the OP of the crosspost.

        Its used in r/SubredditDrama or r/BestOfLegalAdvice where the OP would say “I’m not OOP”, in order to to reminds commeters to not direct their rage against OP.

        In this context, OOP refers to the user who originally posted it on the original timeline.

        • Dicska@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 天前

          Ah okay, thanks for clearing it up! I had no idea that double-original-op was actually a thing, and made me question myself about the meaning of the acronym.

  • scytale@lemmy.zip
    9·
    2 天前

    Are are we applying butterfly effect mechanics here? If yes, the farthest I’ll probably go is the previous 24 hours to have the least impact on the things I don’t want to lose/change. Then I’ll probably bet on the lottery.

  • Tracaine@lemmy.world
    92·
    2 天前

    To the point when humanity’s earliest ancestor dared leave the ocean. I’d kick it back into the sea. Civilization was a mistake.

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 天前

    This timeline is already fucked so I really can’t make it any worse, so I’d go back just to fuck with the timeline.
    Take written volumes on mathmatics, science, and engineering and hand them out in Greece and Arabia a few thousand years ago and see what kind of world we end up with instead.

    • idealotus@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 天前

      Monkey’s Paw answer is the same world we have today because the books are in English and/or the math symbols were not standardized back then.

      • palordrolap@fedia.io
        3·
        2 天前

        This. The modern mathematical symbols, at least in their current use, are no older than 550 years. Heck, the numerals we use are about as old as that. The Arabic world had a head start with early versions of those numerals, but even then, those are only twice as old as the oldest mathematical symbols still in use.

        Prior to that, people wrote things out in words, or, as you suggest, invented their own symbologies and shorthands.

        I have a book around here somewhere that shows how Diophantus wrote a particular polynomial equation and it’s all Greek letters, some with macrons (overlines), some superscripts that don’t mean what we’d use superscripts to mean, and one large upturned capital psi in the middle of it. Mind-boggling.

        And they’d be more mystified by our notation than we are by theirs because at least we (or some of us) know what Greek letters and numerals are. They’d have no such head start.

        • Havatra@lemmy.zip
          2·
          1 天前

          True, but I think if the book is given to the right (group of) people, their curiosity to figure out of the book will likely lead them to it being translated rather fast.