If you could travel back in time and utter a single sentence to someone, when would you choose to go and whom would you address? (self.asklemmy)

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[-] SHamblingSHapes@lemmy.one 16 points 11 months ago

I would go back to 2010 and tell myself, "buy Bitcoin, sell on Dec 17, 2017, buy after it drops and sell again on April 14, 2021. If you still need money after that, reevaluate your life".

[-] Jay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

I was going to say to myself "Invest in Nvidia shares", but your sentence is much better.

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Same. Or maybe winning lottery numbers. Telling myself to invest in tech companies like Apple or Google in the late 90s won't work because I won't have the money or means to do it.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago

"I love you dad" before he dies.

[-] Nomad@infosec.pub 5 points 11 months ago

Adolf Hitlers Mom: "teach him empathy above all else"

[-] morphballganon@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

"This weirdo pops up and starts babbling in English"

[-] Nomad@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah true, but his mom was austrian and they speak a funny version of german. My mother tongue.is german, so that should be possible.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago

ZIM! Don't use the time machine! Love, ZIM!

[-] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

It probably wouldn't work, but I would warn Martin Luther King's event organizers or security detail.

I'm old enough that I could have lived in a world where Martin Luthor King Jr was still an active activist in my lifetime. It's heartbreaking to think about what his loss meant not just symbolically, but in terms of how much better the entire world could have been with almost an extra half century of his influence.

[-] CalamityBalls@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Fermat, explain yourself now please.

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