• bamfic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    24 days ago

    Fun in this thread to identify who is a white man by whether they’d even consider being safe visiting the past

  • Mandy@sh.itjust.works
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    24 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
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      24 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.

    • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works
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      26 days ago

      I was in West Berlin in 1981, we had a picnic by the wall and rode the metro through the ghost stations. Which were a bit meh to be honest. You had to change a certain amount of currency to visit the east and we couldn’t afford it, so we just stayed in the train and went back again.

      We hitched to Berlin, and the freakiest part was driving through the corridor that linked West Berlin to West Germany.

  • benderbeerman@lemmy.world
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    25 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

  • fart_pickle@lemmy.world
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    25 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.

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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    26 days ago

    I’d go back 30 seconds before you hit submit on this question and take your keyboard away from you.

    Seriously, this is a question that’s essentially “What if?” which has been debated by philosophers, argued by historians, fantasized and written about in countless books and displayed in libraries and museums around the planet.

    What on earth did you think this question would add to the fabric of society?

    • EABOD25@lemm.eeEnglish
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      26 days ago

      You know you could have just downvoted and moved on. Instead you chose to suck the fun out. You’re a fun-sucker.

      Every party needs a pooper and I guess that poopers you. Party pooper

      • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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        26 days ago

        The word you’re looking for is “curmudgeon”.

        What I was actually trying to do is encourage a discourse that furthered society, rather than rehash a trope such as the one found at the source of this thread.

        I’m not confident that this will actually eventuate here, but I’m hopeful that someone will pleasantly surprise me.

        • EABOD25@lemm.eeEnglish
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          26 days ago

          Nope. The words I was looking for is fun-sucker and party pooper. Let people have fun lol

        • Octospider@lemm.eeEnglish
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          26 days ago

          tips fedora. Ah, a fellow articulate. I too galavant through Lemmy in search of stimulating discourse. Unfortunately, I am met with conversation that is most superfluous. Heh. You’ve probably correctly surmised my IQ is higher than most.

          Good luck fellow intellectual. Let us further society.

        • Jackthelad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          26 days ago

          We’re on Lemmy. No conversation on here or on any social media is likely going to “further society” in any way.

        • Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
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          26 days ago

          How about instead of coming in and being a dick in someone’s thread, you post things to encourage what you’re looking for?

          No, it must just be easier to smell your own shit in the garden than finding a toilet.

  • moonlight@fedia.io
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    26 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.

    • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk
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      26 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
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        26 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

        • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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          24 days ago

          Any further back than 2 or 300 years and you would definitely, 100% guaranteed be burned as a witch upon arrival.

    • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
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      24 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
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        24 days 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.

  • MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee
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    24 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.