• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago
    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.

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
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    7 hours ago

    I could think of a few historic figures I would love to see be smothered in their cradle, but I think of it’s a one way trip, I’m going to get PDFs with just about everything I would ever need to know about programming in older versions of various languages, burn them to CDs, then return to the early 90s.

    My hope would be, assuming I could take the CDs with me, that I could spend time becoming someone known specifically for making good quality software that helps people. Then when people on windows get attached to that software, pull the rig by saying that, maybe around the late 2000s, all my software will now be only available on Linux. I’d hope to create such high quality software, with the help of any other lunatics I could find, that nobody else can compete. A sort of VLC is the best, or at the very least probably the most used, video player around the world sort of software. Get entrenched and then force a shakeup.

    Bonus points on me bringing proof I’m from the future, if I could, to ensure I could get people to believe me. Something like my soft modded 3DS. Also, bonus points if I bring CDs with PDFs for future versions of things like Python and other languages and such so we could stay ahead of the curb.

    Some real techno elitist type stuff if I had to say so myself.

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    16 hours ago

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

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

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    15 hours ago

    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.

          • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
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            16 hours ago

            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.

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    18 hours ago

    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.

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    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.

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    17 hours ago

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