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A time traveller comes back from 50 years in the future. You have 3 hours with them. What do you do? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/12770326

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The time traveller is able to travel backward and forward through time (max forward is 2074) and they can only transport things that can fit in a small backpack.

You can choose when the 3 hours begin but it has to be in 2024 and once it has begun the timer can't be reset or stopped.

They will answer to the best of their ability but imagine this is a random person from 2074.

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[–] No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston 10 points 10 months ago

All of these comments are well intentioned but of the big picture: land and weather.
Where's the safest place to live and how is the weather doing at that time. Based on it one can potentially align survival to meet these places and protect us from severe weather.

Then we can ask him to go back and find a list of lottery combinations and dates to cash in real dollars for real, no investment and zero ties other than bankrupting red states.

Why red states? Because fuck them idiocy of saying a bunch of things are socialism when they're not. Also because gambling when you always win is not a business for the state.

In years to come probably we could get an idea of the biggest changes in societal behaviors and cash into that so we effectively influence their future for better. Remember they're also a person who needs access to their better life and we can help them achieve it.