Assume that the future can change based on your actions, so any historical information that you bring along with you from the intervening 25 years may quickly drift out of the new realities history.
Edit: also assume that you can be given a healthy 21-year-old body if you want or take your previous self’s place.
Further, identification will be provided for you if you were not born at that time.
Simple. Im ripping up the ticket.
Since my actions have knock on effects and the ticket is 1 way that means Id have to abandon my wife and child and given how much my actions would change things, effectively unmake my daughter.
The worlds fucked, I might be able to unfuck it but theres a better chance Id just create a different flavor of shit sandwich. But to know Id never hear “Dayyydeee come pway wif meeeeee” again.
Fuck it. Let it burn.
If you got a camping backpack maybe you could bring them! That’s my plan.
What would your response be if you could take your family with you?
Chad
Uh, no one said save the world. The assignment was to take it over.
We don’t really know what would happen to this reality. It might just flicker and vanish away. But if you had a new daughter, she might be awesome too and without the time travel, would have never existed.
That’s cool and all, but they love this daughter now.
Gray’s Sports Almanac
Just hope your school bully doesn’t find it.
God forbid we end up on the 1985 timeline. Can you imagine if someone like Biff became rich and powerful?
Looks at every billionaire… Yeah imagine that.
The joke is that alternate-1985 Biff was literally based on Trump, specifically.
Why don’t you make like a tree and get outta here.
It’s leave, you idiot! Make like a tree and leave! You sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong.
It only had information up until 2000 so better make good use of it for that one year
I come with scientific evidence of the impeding doom that will be brought by climate change and urge the world’s powers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while there is still time! Surely everybody will listen to my proofs and act to protect the world!
Sure, Mr. Gore.
[Monkey’s paw curls]
We already had that evidence by the 1960s!
Honestly it might be better to bring proof gore is better than bush or they he won florida
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This time will be different
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Lottery numbers and a historical record of the stock market: first, win lottery then invest based on performance
Become a billionaire, then join the oligarchy and use my stock knowledge to bankrupt the rest of the oligarchy
At some point, wouldn’t having future knowledge of the stock market either lead to you changing the stock market with the presence of your money until your predictions lose their accuracy, or else get you investigated for insider trading due to it being statistically insanely unlikely to be that lucky?
You could just spread it across a bunch of GICs and then ETFs that were solid performers. You have your lottery money, you just need to earn enough to live the way you want. With enough invested but diversified you could make a fortune without influencing anything as a result of personal choices.
If anythjng, the initial lottery win will have the biggest impact on the timeline, assuming you lay low afterward.
Now, here’s the thing. I’d say you would be sharing those winnings with the original winner unless you prevented them from getting the ticket so find a jackpot twice as big as you need and hope a bunch of yous from alternate timeline don’t get the same idea.
That’s what would happen to me and I’d end up winning about $3.50.
Now, here’s the thing. I’d say you would be sharing those winnings with the original winner unless you prevented them from getting the ticket
The January 2nd Powerball draw was not won by anyone and paid $39M.
That’s plenty of seed money to invest in Google, Bitcoin, et al with perfect knowledge of stock trends. Even if it’s only short term knowledge due to breaking from the original timeline, you could easily grow your investment into the billions overnight.
If a bunch of you’s from another timeline can come too, that opens the door to more interesting shenanigans anyway, like if they all get unique valid IDs, one of you could run for political office and get enough alternative selves to come back and vote for them to win. Or get different versions of yourself to run for all the political offices in a given area while bringing enough copies to win all their elections, and completely dominate the politics of the area by having everyone in office have the same or very similar views.
The downside here is I’d have to spend all my time with other me’s. I’m pretty sure I’d get on my nerves very quickly.
You could also find some of the lottery winners that absolutely hated what happened to their lives after they won and win the draw right before their ticket would have won.
That way you spare them the misery that the money brought them and you get a nice chunk of change for yourself in the process.
I think as long as you’re careful you could avoid crashing the market until you are ready, and they would have to prove insider trading. I could spread my stock purchases through a bunch of shell corporations as well
Don’t go all in to try and be the majority in a ton of things, and good luck PROVING insider information.
Besides if you make enough money, you can just make investigations go away as long as you aren’t too flashy about it. Or have a convenient distraction story waiting elsewhere to divert attention away from yourself.
… It freaks me out that is exactly my plan that I’ve spitballed in the shower several times.
Cia_chatbot knows.
Bear in mind that logically, the longer time goes on and the more you interfere, things will diverge. You might only be able to win the lottery a handful of times before the butterfly effect starts giving you numbers which don’t match your predictions from the future. I figure the same thing happens with investments. If someone buys a tonne of shares using billions, the history of the stockmarket will change and over time be unreliable outside of certain events. Might be wise to buy up aquire certain talent though.
make your billions by buying lots of small, but super profitable investments.
Yeah, just buy Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook when it comes out and you’re all set.
Also, start generating Bitcoin in late 2009 and sell it all on Nov 10, 2021.
Sell it when it’s in the 10,000 range the first time, circa 2015, then buy back when it drops to 400 in late 2016 and then hold
It spiked to 17,000 in 2017 too, if I recall.
Just buy Apple and Microsoft. You’ll be fine.
All of Wikipedia on a thumb drive
List of winning power ball numbers for the past 2 decades.
$20 cash to buy bitcoin
That’s enough. More than enough money to never work again and info to help stop 9/11, etc…
$20 cash to buy bitcoin
Bring a 2023 model computer back with you and you could just mine all the bitcoin yourself.
Hell, you could even temporally-plagiarize Satoshi Nakamoto and invent it yourself.
This is a great idea but it requires effort and if I were to mine 10billion bitcoin very early, that may change the future of bitcoin such that it never hits 30k+ value per. It seems safer to simply buy 1000 of them at a $0.10 to resale at 10k+.
My plan is minimal effort, minimal impact to anyone that isn’t me, and to get all the money I could ever need.
Your smartphone probably has a comparable amount of processing power to some of the earlier mining farms. May as well just mine the bitcoin
A healthy 21 body and 1999? Fuck taking over the world, and I don’t need your stinking backpack, just tell me where to get that ticket and where to show up, I’m not going to miss this! I’m taking a cyanide pill though when 2020 rolls around; I’m not doing this shit again.
So prevent it from happening!
One of the reasons why the coronavirus vaccine was created so quickly was that the work was already 90% done.
If you orchestrated things that you would be a billionaire by the 2010s, you could purchase the company that designed the vaccine and make sure that they are appropriately funded so that the vaccine for coronavirus would already exist at the time the pandemic struck.
And billionaires didn’t have to isolate in a studio apartment.
I would have no inclination to take over the world. But if I could go back to that date, I would make a million different decisions over the next few years to steer my life in a much wiser direction.
An entire offline copy of Wikipedia up to Jan 1 2024 on a tablet. Having all the world events up to that date available to consult at my fingertips, I could use it in so many ways.
Don’t forget a charger, otherwise you’ll be screwed for awhile
USB 1.1 was already around in 1999, USB 2.0 being released in 2001 with Mini-A/AB/B being available in 2001, and the standard Type-A as early as 1996.
Take one of those USB Type-A to USB-C and you’re good enough until circa-2008 when USB-C starts to get aroundUSB-C wasn’t designed until 2014. So yeah you’ll need a charging cable regardless
All the FLOSS software i could put my hands on (with source code), a couple awesome smartphones, wikipedia dump, sports almanac, and a stable-diffusion rig.
I’m curious how stable diffusion plays into taking over the world.
I don’t know about stable diffusion but I know deep fakes would be handy. Being able to release videos to the public while retaining my privacy would be invaluable.
And if the CIA or the KGB decided to assassinate my alter ego they would have a hell of a time even finding the fucker and if they did find somebody that looked just like them and executed them that wouldn’t have killed me.
I’ve got no motivation to take over the world, nor am I sure it’s really possible in a life time. I don’t really have a non-boring answer to this hypothetical.
If the ticket is available anyway I’d happily take it, I’m single at the moment with no dependents and being younger and healthier would be huge. There are lots of ways to make money with the knowledge of future history, even if it’ll change when you start impacting it, and any one of them could make me wealthy enough to never have to work again in my life and do so wherever I please.
I’ve never really understood the need of the rich to continually amass wealth or how they spend it.
A current download of Wikipedia.
To take over the world? I’d take the records of every international technology and medical patent. And, a cell phone. I’d get the local news interested in my new handheld PC, find the least scrupulous tech company which reached out to me, and hatch a plan to create a trillion dollar tech empire.
stock data
Bitcoin has outperformed stocks by about 100,000-fold. All you need is a fiver to invest at the beginning.
Note that that return is only for the early investors. If you are incredibly lucky and we have a very flush couple of years you might triple an investment in by 2030 now. But you are also very likely to just lose it All
1989 would be better. 2000s were pretty terrible.
You have to prevent 9/11. Then you can still walk your grandma to the terminal when she flies to the Bahamas.
Prevent Gore losing
All you’d have to do is generate money with the information you brought back and then campaign for Gore in Florida like nobody’s business. None of this hanging chads bullshit.
That and preventing 9/11 would completely and utterly change the world most likely for the better.
89 was a good year. I didn’t quite have bills yet.
Pingy Putty and Reaganism would all still be in heavy effect, I can’t think of a way any one person is going to bring down 3 nuclear super-war-states. We don’t have any anti nuke tech eminence in shadow but nice writing prompt for potential suffering trying.
Pingy putty? I’ve never heard of this before.
Also, nothing comes up when I search it on DuckDuckGo or start page
Putin and Xi Ping would still be serious threats to trying to take over the world even from 1999 perspective.
Eminence in Shadow? I only know the term from the anime. What does it mean here?
Trying to Isekai to 1999 to take over the world brain.
