I have 8 years to prepare to mine Bitcoin.
Also I can start making a name for myself as a prophet
Wild times in a wild world
Submitted 2 months ago by OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
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linearchaos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
cor315@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fuck that. Start mining. Don’t say a fucking word to anyone. Don’t go overboard on mining. Or if you do, use it/sell some of it early. The only reason bitcoin became popular is because people used it to buy stuff. If you start talking about how it’s gonna be worth 80,000 in 10 years you run the risk that more people will hoard it and it won’t be worth shit.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How about I just open a pizza shop near where it all started and take Bitcoin?
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The Profit.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Plot twist, you bring covid with you
xenoclast@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Incredibly probable
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I need a writing prompt sub/community to get right on this one.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe also an evolved strain of the pandemic h1n1 virus. And more evolved versions of other viruses, too. That covid will be more evolved than the original pandemic strain, also. It’ll have the transmission increases and immunity avoidance while in the novel virus stage, so going back to warn about covid could instead make it happen earlier and much worse (instead of just earlier). Plus all the other pandemics on top of that, and in a time that is much less ready to pivot office work to wfh.
lustyargonian@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Time travelling scientists warned us about climate change almost a century ago and here we are.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 months ago
What if it worked. What if like dr.stranges 1/14million chances. This is the least caustic one.
Naz@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
inhales sharply
Don’t violate causality, don’t violate causality
Don’t tell them about the event
merari42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We knew well enough that a pandemic was a realistic risk and had SARS-1 and MERS as warning shots but we’re still not very well prepared at the outset of COVID.
Kalkaline@leminal.space 2 months ago
We were prepared for COVID until Trump threw away the plan. PPE.https://statnews.com/…/the-art-of-the-pandemi…
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Probably needed a better concept of a plan to replace it
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 months ago
The thing that pissed me off the most about his response is delaying the shutdown of air travel from China.
Bitch that’s your thing, hating China.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Trump didn’t make everybody stop wearing masks like a bunch of dipshits.
samus12345@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Realistically, what could a single person do to prevent either 9/11 or the Covid pandemic from happening? Not much.
Now, the assassination of a certain person who wasn’t in politics the time might do some good…
Smokeydope@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It depends on how far back you go and who you contact about he incident and the evidence to solidify the claim. 9/11 could have been stopped relatively easily with a few days notice to national security. The air force could have shot both planes out of the sky. Just call the civilian deaths a tragic casalty of terrorism and use it to help fuel the war. The twin towers could have been shut down that day.
But you’ve gotta materialize right in front of the commander in chief, bring a mountain of carbon datable evidence like news papers and original classified docs, and hope that you don’t get brained on the spot before you make your case.
As for covid, you probably can’t stop it but maybe better warn and prepare world governments so they can get their population ready through subtle conditioning like trying to get wearing mask be a fashon trend or advertising bidets heavily as the new rich yuppie thing to show as a status symbol.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Scientists have been talking about a big pandemic for years before Covid. Nobody cared. If I ever get to time travel, I’ll use it for personal gain. That’s the only way something good’ll come out of it.
lugal@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bringing evidence from the future is cheating. They wouldn’t believe you if you told them the truth but if you say you are a terrorist and placed a bomb in the world trade center, they might evacuate it
Delphia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You dont notify the government directly, you notify the news desks of MSNBC, Fox, ABC and the major newspapers. Do it via express postage envelopes a few days out, include any publicly available info on hijackers, flight numbers and times.
The Government might ignore it as a hoax, but not if they know that the information has come via every major news outlet in the country. They have to act.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Call in a bomb threat for the 4 planes to the FBI.
Hoard a warehouse full of toilet paper and profiteer from it.
I dont know what to do about Covid though.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Trump actually ran for president under a third party in 2000
samus12345@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, but it never went anywhere and by 2001 he wasn’t in politics again.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
For the curious, en.wikipedia.org/…/Donald_Trump_2000_presidential…
Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Hey pentagon havw you thought of … downing those planes?”
Op 1, it was the pentagon’s plan all along. 9/11 happens anyway. You die.
Op 2, pentagon’s official spits his coffee, you prevent 9/11 but after that… can you really be trusted? You die.
Op 3, pentagon’s official laughs at you, 9/11 happens. You can’t be trusted. You die.
RidderSport@feddit.org 2 months ago
Prevent 9/11 probably unrealistic, but you could pull the fire alarm prior to the attack and thereby save lifes
Kalkaline@leminal.space 2 months ago
With prior knowledge of the event and 2 weeks head start? You could do so much including the drastic actions that would result in less lives lost.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Fewer*
But what could you do without throwing your life away? Basically you would have to hijack a plane to increase security. Regular appeals by a person claiming to be a time traveler… might not be taken seriously.
samus12345@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you’re going by the comic, you only have 1 day. just over 18 years for Covid, though.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
We had tin foil hat people back then too, people aren’t going to believe you
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 months ago
Go to the cops and prove you are from the future. Get there a few days early with the lottery numbers on a piece of paper or smth. That might get them to take you seriously. Of course they will never let you go back.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
How would you get the numbers for a lottery that was 23 years ago?
saigot@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
covid for sure, but one guy with a smuggle knife could have a pretty good chance of stopping at least one of the planes
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Just call with a bomb threat, they take that shit seriously and it would have emptied planes and buildings. Call the PD and threaten both towers, the pentagon, and the airport.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes hi I’d like to buy a bus ticket to Cincinatti, also where can I find a bulletproof vest that will fit a gorilla?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 months ago
Just stop the dumbass kid from climbing over the railing. No vest needed.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Stop the dumbass mom from letting her toddler wander off by himself right next to a fucking gorilla enclosure
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Sell your Enron stocks immediately!
flamingos@feddit.uk 2 months ago
That’s because she knows stopping the planes won’t stop the towers coming down. /s
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s a game around time travel called Quantum Break that brings up this topic.
Someone brings detailed messages to their past self…and acknowledges, as a way of proving it, that September 11 is going to happen - but due to the way time works, no matter who they warn or what they say, no one will believe them and nothing will change.
I don’t even know if everyone read that bit of text lore ingame, but it was pretty emotional.
Mwa@lemm.ee 2 months ago
ooo self drawn very nice
ober@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I am Iron Man
heartbreaker@lemmy.world 2 months ago
i dont get it
Contramuffin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s implied that in the process of trying to warn people about covid, she inadvertently caused 9/11
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Or that younger people simply have no memory of, and were not (or don’t realize) affected by, 9/11.
ramble81@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Check the date on the paper. One day before 9/11
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Technically, 9/11 is every year, silly
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The time traveler is trying to save lives, and compared to covid 9/11 isn’t even a blip on the radar.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 months ago
If you went back and warned everyone about 9/11 the day before, you’d be locked up in gitmo for decades.
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Anonymous bomb threat
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
You’d probably still be locked up. Too many questions would come you couldn’t answer without revealing you were a time traveller.
RidderSport@feddit.org 2 months ago
You could walk in there and pull the fire alarm
petersr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think you need to take the same approach as the British during WW2 with the Enigma. They could decrypt the messages and know when attacks would happen, but if they stopped every attack, the Nazis would know and change encryption device. So you need to accept that some people will die and only mitigate the disaster in small but impactful ways.
HeChomk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Like taking out seth macfarlane on a drinking bender on September 10th?