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If you had a one-way ticket to Jan 1, 1999 that departs on Jan 1, 2024, and you are allowed to bring whatever fits into a backpack with you, what would you bring to use to take over the world, and how (kbin.social)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Bizarroland@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Centillionaire@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So prevent it from happening!

[–] Bizarroland@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

And billionaires didn't have to isolate in a studio apartment.