if you could go back in time, when? What for?
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I would go back about 40 years ago and stop my parents from meeting.
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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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Assuming it's a one way trip, I'd probably go to the year 1998, Impersonate my dad, Rescue child me from some shit, Win the lottery, Stop 9/11, and then die and leave my younger self with more money and power than he could reasonably cope with.
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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.Monkey's Paw answer is the same world we have today because the books are in English and/or the math symbols were not standardized back then.
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Monkey's Paw answer is the same world we have today because the books are in English and/or the math symbols were not standardized back then.
This. The modern mathematical symbols, at least in their current use, are no older than 550 years. Heck, the numerals we use are about as old as that. The Arabic world had a head start with early versions of those numerals, but even then, those are only twice as old as the oldest mathematical symbols still in use.
Prior to that, people wrote things out in words, or, as you suggest, invented their own symbologies and shorthands.
I have a book around here somewhere that shows how Diophantus wrote a particular polynomial equation and it's all Greek letters, some with macrons (overlines), some superscripts that don't mean what we'd use superscripts to mean, and one large upturned capital psi in the middle of it. Mind-boggling.
And they'd be more mystified by our notation than we are by theirs because at least we (or some of us) know what Greek letters and numerals are. They'd have no such head start.
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Check the top meme on lemmy of all time.
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Go back to 1 minute before they posted that and post it before they do.
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I am now the person who posted the highest upvoted meme ever!
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The Original OP in the original timeline would be so confused while I stand in the spotlight of GLORY!
Also:
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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.
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Register a domain of a popular sites before they get registered
I love time-trolling.
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Assuming it's a one way trip, I'd probably go to the year 1998, Impersonate my dad, Rescue child me from some shit, Win the lottery, Stop 9/11, and then die and leave my younger self with more money and power than he could reasonably cope with.
Congratulations, you stopped the 9/11, but the terrorists escape and they plan for something even worse:
9/11 v2002: Nuclear Boogaloo?
Global UN Patriot Act on Steroids?
There would be a genocide of Muslins in the US, and perhaps Islamaphobic violence towards people who look "Middle-Eastern" all around the world. Aircraft having an emergency and deviating from flight plan with broken radios? It will get shot down immediately. MH17-like incidents will be commonplace around the world.
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Check the top meme on lemmy of all time.
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Go back to 1 minute before they posted that and post it before they do.
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I am now the person who posted the highest upvoted meme ever!
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The Original OP in the original timeline would be so confused while I stand in the spotlight of GLORY!
Also:
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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.
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Register a domain of a popular sites before they get registered
I love time-trolling.
Original OP
Wait, what does OP stand for?
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Original OP
Wait, what does OP stand for?
wrote last edited by [email protected]OP is Original Poster.
When a post is crossposted, the term OOP is used instead (Original Original Poster), as opposed to the OP of the crosspost.
Its used in r/SubredditDrama or r/BestOfLegalAdvice where the OP would say "I'm not OOP", in order to to reminds commeters to not direct their rage against OP.
In this context, OOP refers to the user who originally posted it on the original timeline.
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Go back where about to transition to homosepians and give ourselves a favor by eliminating every single one and give way to lizard people.
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OP is Original Poster.
When a post is crossposted, the term OOP is used instead (Original Original Poster), as opposed to the OP of the crosspost.
Its used in r/SubredditDrama or r/BestOfLegalAdvice where the OP would say "I'm not OOP", in order to to reminds commeters to not direct their rage against OP.
In this context, OOP refers to the user who originally posted it on the original timeline.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Ah okay, thanks for clearing it up! I had no idea that double-original-op was actually a thing, and made me question myself about the meaning of the acronym.
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That's quite the plan - sounds like it could be a good movie (I feel like we already have movies like these, but can't recall any on top of my head).
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This. The modern mathematical symbols, at least in their current use, are no older than 550 years. Heck, the numerals we use are about as old as that. The Arabic world had a head start with early versions of those numerals, but even then, those are only twice as old as the oldest mathematical symbols still in use.
Prior to that, people wrote things out in words, or, as you suggest, invented their own symbologies and shorthands.
I have a book around here somewhere that shows how Diophantus wrote a particular polynomial equation and it's all Greek letters, some with macrons (overlines), some superscripts that don't mean what we'd use superscripts to mean, and one large upturned capital psi in the middle of it. Mind-boggling.
And they'd be more mystified by our notation than we are by theirs because at least we (or some of us) know what Greek letters and numerals are. They'd have no such head start.
True, but I think if the book is given to the right (group of) people, their curiosity to figure out of the book will likely lead them to it being translated rather fast.
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Jokes on you. You’ll be suffocating in space, bruh
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2007 since that's when I began properly using the internet socially. man the SHOOP DA WHOOP memes and image macro threads. fckin nostalgia!!!
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I'd go back and try to stop me from fucking up my life.
