Hint: You can prevent https://lifeline4gaza.com/ <- this from happening, or solve the unsolveable historical mysteries that haunt us all.

Premise: the continuum is bullshit and can do whatever idk, viewing only or with alterations, depending on what makes sense to you. It’s not a contest to do the most (well okay it is but that could limit our inquiry), just whatever occurs to you first.

  • Saprophyte@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 hours ago

    Dec 15th, 1791 along with an AR-15 and four high capacity magazines just to explain something to a few people.

  • chunes@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 hour ago

    About 300 million years ago.

    That’s the earliest time that you could still breathe comfortably.

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Brooks Brothers Rioters. Cut all their valve stems. Also, maybe do something about the SC, because they just handed the election to Bush anyway.

  • shweddy@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 hours ago

    I’m sending that tiktaalik back into the ocean til it’s stops trying to come back on land

  • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
    13·
    15 hours ago

    I would go to the year 1800, and bring with me a bunch of books on science and engineering. Basically all the building blocks you need to build wind farms and solar power. I would visit all the universities I can and drop these books in library shelves. Some climate change literature could be nice too.

    • FatVegan@leminal.space
      9·
      14 hours ago

      During the pandemic we learned that people react well to reasoning and people telling them what to do

      • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
        5·
        12 hours ago

        I have a plan B too, but it’s not so gentle.

        The goal is to become the number one energy producer and stomp out all opposition and competition before it has a chance to grow. There are no laws against cartels and monopolies, so you exploit the hell out of it. You file extremely broad patents to prevent fossil fuels and combustion based motors from ever becoming a thing. You play super dirty, no mercy, no remorse. It’s going to be basically like the East-India Company, but with renewable energy.

        You lobby governments to adopt renewable energy and electrical devices you provide. You influence the public opinion on fossil fuels by spreading information about climate change, pollution and negative health effects. If the global energy company becomes big enough, you should make your own private army and conquer all the places where large oil deposits exist, and establish massive natural reserve parks in those areas. Lobby the governments to make other similar areas legally protected from all industrial development for the next 1000 years.

        You would become the supervillain billionaire of the 1800s, but you put the whole world on a renewable trajectory.

        • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          You influence the public opinion on fossil fuels by spreading information about climate change, pollution and negative health effects

          if you are playing dirty, telling them digging up those evil black liquid out can anger the gods would work too

  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    16 hours ago

    1995 to visit my family when they were all still alive. It wouldn’t hurt urging them to invest in Apple stock and Bitcoin while I’m at it.

  • robotElder2 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    15 hours ago

    I tell general Butler to accept Lincolns VP position. Then leave a time capsule in the future USSR to be opened in 1920 or so with instructions for building computers

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago
      • Buy CPU from AMD
      • Buy GPU from Nvidia
      • Buy motherboard from MSI
      • Buy RAM from Corsair
      • plug them together and put it in a case.
      • plug HDMI cable between GPU and handy LCD monitor.
      • Install Windows

      The point I’m making is there’s so much technological development in manufacturing that has to take place before you can even start, it probably wouldn’t happen any faster. Just the technology that builds the machines that builds the machines that build the chips is beyond the 1920s.

      Turing’s papers on computing were all pre-WW2 anyway.

  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    11 hours ago

    Call me selfish, but I’d go back two weeks and salt the walkway for sick Cracks and company.

    Was a very Life is Strange-esque, ‘this action will have consequences’ branching path event.

  • andrewta@lemmy.world
    17·
    22 hours ago

    I’d go to this date and buy this ticket. I’d buy this ticket because there was no winner and next week was a 1.8 billion dollar winner

      • andrewta@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 hours ago

        How is it a gamble if I already know the answer? That’s not gambling. That’s going and picking up the winning ticket. trying to see how this is a bad thing for anybody. I mean, other than the person who won on the next round.