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IDontHavePantsOn, (edited ) in Which pill do you choose?

Everyone is choosing red because they think they would be rich, but would they?

Imagine having the knowledge, that you knowingly stepped back in time, and all of your memories are now not real. They won’t happen again unless you actually act exactly as you had before. No one believes anything you say because you are 6. You’re forced to go through school again at 6.

Let’s say you use your genius to progress quickly through school. Those sorts of kids become famous prodigies. You would end up on the talk show circuit with Ellen.

You would also know way more about your parents than you should at that age, and cause familial issues that would land you on Dr. Phil.

Imagine how torturous it would be to relive every moment, not being able to convince anyone of anything due to your age, unless you give up the fact that you were somehow sent back in time and know the future. Would you be able to convince your family without going insane? Would any government agency take qcute interest in your foresight? Imagine having to keep a level head while also going through puberty a second time.

How much will your presence affect the timeline? Maybe your first big move to get rich causes all subsequent moves to not exist. Maybe your parents hate you. Maybe it’s chaos theory. Maybe you end up taking a path away from opulence and become an addict due to the constant anxiety, regret and boredom. Maybe you become a nihilistic mess that drives you to a worse life than you had before.

I’d take the definite of $10M. I know what I would do with it right now. I know it would be good.

Edit: a downvote without a reply telling me how I’m wrong is really an upvote.

orcrist,

No, that’s not why people are choosing the red pill. Most people are not mere mercenaries.

JackbyDev,

I down voted for your cringey edit about down votes without telling you why your wrong being an upvote.

IDontHavePantsOn,

You do you bud. It’s all just opinions and assholes.

ibasaw,

Weird. So if I wanted to upvote I should click the down arrow?

Anything you say my friend…

IDontHavePantsOn,

💔

dingus, (edited )

I’m not really understanding why you’d need to convince anyone of anything? Why would you need to tell anyone you went back in time? All you need to do to become rich when going back in time is to memorize a winning lotto ticket or to invest in something that you know will make it big. Why do you think that you’d need to convince people you aren’t crazy or whatever you’re saying? Legitimately curious.

With going back and time, you could both become rich and change things and events from your past that you regret.

IDontHavePantsOn,

An adult stuck in a 6 year old body that somehow knows everything and is more mature than their parents and also has money to invest, that I’m sure that won’t rouse any suspicions.

MystikIncarnate,

I’d “suffer” through school again happily if I could take some opportunities that once passed me by. I was at a good age when Bitcoin hit the scene. I thought it was not very interesting and probably wouldn’t amount to much… At a time where you could get several a day with little more than the computing power of an era appropriate smartphone.

$10M now vs mining as many Bitcoin as you could back then, and then cashing out when it peaked in 2021… Just that simple change and the 10M seems like nothing.

I also made some strategic errors in my youth, dropping out of school and going to work full time at a dead end retail job, and working there for years before deciding to go and finish my education. I had saved nothing from my time working and put myself pretty deep into debt by the end of it.

By the time I graduated, I was pushing 30, I was something like six figures in debt, and I had no job prospects. I ended up working at a call center.

So yeah, I’ll suffer through grade school and high school again if it means I can do it right. I wouldn’t excel so much that I stood out… Maybe just enough to skip a grade, get started on college just a little bit sooner. Invest any money I had into Apple or something, right before the big iPhone explosion. I would still be financially set for life, knowing what I know.

DigitalTraveler42, in In the wake of the story about billionaire Bill Ackman

For anyone wondering how shitty this guy is:

businessinsider.com/who-is-bill-ackman-billionair…

SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I feel like “billionaire investor” should be enough to know how shitty he is. Those two words speak literal volumes.

vzq,

You mean his personal labor does not create billions of surplus value? Heresy!

Fades,

Hedge funds are a cancer

edinbruh, in Which pill do you choose?

If I get back to 2005 I can easily get more than 10 millions by the time it’s 2024 again. Plus all the other perks of restarting your life

Thyrian,

Easy. Bitcoin.

KazuyaDarklight,
@KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world avatar
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SpaceNoodle, (edited )

Yeah, get into Bitcoin at the peak investment age of ten.

Edit: JFC y’all, I’m middle-aged.

dream_weasel,

Have you tried being older? Bitcoin would be a 21+ problem for me!

SpaceNoodle,

I’m already older, I was talking to that guy

Dagnet, (edited )

At the start all you needed was access to any computer. Mine for an hour and come out with some bitcoin

bdonvr, (edited )

If your family had a PC at that time absolutely. Just wait for the first inklings and start mining. It was way easier at the start. You’d be able to get several thousands pretty easy. Maybe you get some visa gift cards as a kid for Christmas, dump em in there. Or even just go to any store and use your allowance to buy one. Then sell at the peak. EZPZ

shani66,

Yeah, you can do that. Bitcoin is anonymous and you could earn it relatively easy when it first came out. If you want to get real fucked up with it you could make even more by appealing to those early black markets and use your age as a cover, but that’s risk.

Neato,
@Neato@ttrpg.network avatar

You generally need a credit card to do that.

psud,

At ten you might have a computer that can mine a couple of hundred bit coin

SpaceNoodle,

Were there any DOS programs for mining Bitcoin a couple decades before Bitcoin even existed?

psud,

You were the one positing the idea of Bitcoin at age 10. A 10 year old in 2010 would likely have a suitable computer

pyrflie,

Where is your initial capital coming from. Less than 100,000 will not get you to 10 mil, even mining at an early age requires either wealthy parents or venture capital.

Running a digital farm takes money. Something you clearly haven’t thought out.

bjorney,

Early mining required a mid-tier gaming PC, the kind you could finance with a paper route

funkajunk,
@funkajunk@lemm.ee avatar

Think of all the time that you could waste again!

ColeSloth,

You become 6 again, but it’s still 2024 and you really freak out your parents. No getting to know the future.

acockworkorange,

No way I’m going through childhood again. Mine sucked.

Andrew15_5, in Playing an unsupported file
@Andrew15_5@mander.xyz avatar

Average Windows user.

BTW, IEC units are superior and accepted unlike the SI units, so the correct usage is “2.5 GiB”.

Thann,
@Thann@lemmy.ml avatar

I spent $20 on this video player but it doesn’t support my format! Does anyone know if the $50 pro version works? /s

Andrew15_5,
@Andrew15_5@mander.xyz avatar

The FOSS to the rescue.

littletranspunk,

When user says “Linux is too complicated”

mexicancartel,

Yeah, its called vlc. You can download it only if you pay 50$ in “Donate” section

-s

TheBat,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

gib peac

stfu

Andrew15_5,
@Andrew15_5@mander.xyz avatar

What’s “gib peac”?

Andrew15_5,
@Andrew15_5@mander.xyz avatar

I have probably triggered all the Windows users.

They hated him, because he was telling the truth.

peanuts4life, in No context
@peanuts4life@beehaw.org avatar

I just dump a liter of bleach in the upper deck and remove the seat. Nothing cleans you up better than a good swirl.

jollyrogue,

Lemmy needs a “Vote for best of” feature.

haroldstork, in Playing an unsupported file

mpv my beloved

Aaroncvx, (edited )

VLC-heads in this thread are a decade behind

vic_rattlehead,

We’re streets ahead.

AnxiousDater101, (edited ) in Why?

The cap of the decade. Studying in public is good for you. It’s almost creepy, like they’re hunting for a mascot.

sentient_loom,
@sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works avatar

Why? I never heard of this.

pearsaltchocolatebar,

What the actual fuck are you talking about? Do you need medical assistance?

AnxiousDater101,
Rachelhazideas,

It’s probably a bot. Nothing they say makes any sense.

AstralPath, in Why?

OP has been spamming nonsense memes for a few days now and seemingly doesn’t get the hint that the downvotes mean they should probably touch grass for a bit and re-connect with reality.

rockerface,

Looking at the comments, I could believe this is a bot generating memes. Are we getting Reddited?

Jake_Farm, in "Crony Capitalism" is Libertarian cope
@Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz avatar

“Capitalism” is a tankie cope.

davel, (edited )
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar
Jake_Farm,
@Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz avatar

Its not my fault you see everything as capitalism.

davel, (edited )
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar
mindbleach,

You don’t know what any of those words mean.

And I’m including “a.”

Jake_Farm,
@Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz avatar

Ditto, mate.

mindbleach,

Layer two of ‘nuh uh, no u.’

Dull.

Jake_Farm,
@Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz avatar

Ah yes and the “you’re stupid” approach is the height of intellectual conversation.

mindbleach,

Layer three.

Zuberi,
@Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Huh?

PhilMcGraw, in Which pill do you choose?

I’m liking the “going back to when I was 6 with all the knowledge I have now” option, but in reality 6 year old me would probably be too immature to know I need to remember it and by the time I needed to use that information in any sane way it would have been long forgotten.

I mean some people are saying get bitcoin early days, but 6 year old me was at least 10 years off Bitcoin existing.

It would also really suck knowing how easy it was to obtain information in the future only to be stuck in the past and barely have access to the internet at all.

themelm,

I think people underestimate how much the physical state of your body, ie hormones brain structure etc play in how you make decisions.

When I was a lad I almost always knew I was making the wrong decisions but felt powerless in the moment to stop myself. I also had basically no concept of the future as a real thing that would happen and could be planned for until I was like 27 or so. Like the logical knowing things part of my brain knew the right moves but the doing things me rarely consulted with knowing things me.

Not to mention that kids have a serious lack of control over their own destinies.

I honestly think going back in time with all my memories is one of the worse hells I can imagine. Just doomed to watch myself fuck up in similar ways again and hope that it all works out “OK” this time too.

Yerbouti, in Wrong explanations only

How to entertain people on social media.

hydroptic,

Hey I said wrong answers only

wuphysics87, in Wrong explanations only

The power of christ compels you

hydroptic,

The power of WORM compels you

Digestive_Biscuit, in Wrong explanations only
@Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk avatar

Sea Gulls do this but with their feet and not sticks. The worms think it’s raining from the sound and come up to the surface to get eaten.

Lifebandit666,

Wrong explanations only

Louisoix,

But it is wrong, worms don’t think!

Lifebandit666,

Haha I’ve just come from a comment about Brexit, and I’d argue that a lot of Humans don’t think either.

Digestive_Biscuit,
@Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk avatar

Perhaps the worms represent the average person, the sticks represent the media and the hands are those of politicians.

Digestive_Biscuit,
@Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk avatar

Sea Gulls don’t have hands and can’t use sticks like that.

Lifebandit666,

You’re acting like birds are actually real or something

Digestive_Biscuit,
@Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk avatar

They’re not. They’re CIA robots.

hOrni, in Which pill do you choose?

Blue. Knowing what I know would make me a fucked up 6 year old. I wouldn’t be able to make friends, I would creep people out or even end up in a mental institution. 10 million wold fix all my current problems. And there wold be a lot left for hookers and coke.

Roccobot,
@Roccobot@lemmy.world avatar

Exactly

dingus,

Well I’m not able to make friends or relationships now so that but wouldn’t make a difference lol

GratefullyGodless, in Hill to die on
@GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world avatar

Adam West was the best! And it even rhymes.

darkpanda,
Slovene,

And he was also the best mayor.

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