Mothra,
@Mothra@mander.xyz avatar

Red

Vode_An,

which is one digests better in my ass?

dream_weasel,

Brown pill.

Jerb322,
@Jerb322@lemmy.world avatar

Blue, would be hard to merry my x again, so I still have my son.

dream_weasel,

Ho ho ho. Merry ex marrying!

Jerb322,
@Jerb322@lemmy.world avatar

My bad

Otakulad,

Do I go back in time to when I was six (red pill then) or am I 6 in 2024 (blue pill then)?

Technus,

If I go back in time am I morally obligated to try to stop 9/11?

Otakulad,

Did you see that episode of Family Guy? I think world events still have to happen.

psud,

Your best bet would be to set fires in both towers, causing their evacuation.

Technus,

I didn’t ask how to prevent it, I asked if I’m morally obligated to try.

psud,

Sure, but how was more fun, and I had no moral duty to reply to your actual question

danc4498,

I didn’t even think of the possibility of becoming 6 now. That’s a good monkeys paw scenario.

edinbruh,

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.

MrJameGumb,
@MrJameGumb@lemmy.world avatar

I’d take the $10 mil. Childhood seems like it would be a lot less fun if I had to go through it again but now with the jaded mind of a middle aged man.

I can for sure find a way to have fun with ten million dollars though 😉

SpaceNoodle,

$10MM is instant retirement money.

GregorGizeh,

10 mil is definitely easier, but if you memorized important global events and stock market crashes or explosions you could potentially build an empire. 10 mil would be chump change at that point. You could potentially maneuver yourself into positions of extreme power and help to shape the world, possibly change it for the better in the process.

MrJameGumb,
@MrJameGumb@lemmy.world avatar

True, but in this case I’d only be six years old. I’d be too young to really do anything about future events, and anyone who could do something probably wouldn’t listen to a kid warning then about politics and finance. Somehow I feel like by the time I’d be old enough to make any of that information useful I would have either forgotten a lot of it or ceased to care. I might choose differently if I was starting at age like 25 or 30 though

GregorGizeh, (edited )

Well I would imagine my parents would pay attention to a 6 year old with the intellect and speech capability of a fully grown adult, especially once i tell them I can predict important future events and deliver a couple examples. Then I could ask them to create a trust fund and make it invest according to my foreknowledge. 25 years later and it’s a global empire with controlling shares in all major corporations.

greenskye,

Gotta somehow get seed money. Even investing your allowance would only get you a couple of thousand. You’re investing doesn’t really pay off until you’re old enough and rich enough to put real money in the game.

GregorGizeh,

See my other comment on this. I’m fairly sure I could get my parents to listen, whom would then do the investing for me, with a lot more than just an allowance (kids can’t invest anyway).

kratoz29,
@kratoz29@lemm.ee avatar

but if you memorized important global events and stock market crashes or explosions you could potentially build an empire.

That is the thing when these kinds of topics appear, I totally would commit the same mistakes all over again, hence a boring childhood (I still think I’d go back though).

gnate,

Yep, red pill would be 3rd place after ‘neither’. I don’t need the burden of that knowledge at 6, especially without the power to act on it.

punkwalrus,
@punkwalrus@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah my childhood sucked, and knowing I’d have another 12 years of abuse with nobody taking me seriously because I’m a kid? No thanks. I could put $10mil to good use right now.

MsPenguinette,

Mine sucked too but I’m trans and would kill to have known that information from the getgo rather than finding out in my 20s

Rhynoplaz, (edited )

I’m really sorry to hear that you had to go through that, and you can tell me to fuck right off if you don’t want to think about it, but you got me wondering.

Do you think if you went back, you could use what you know today to prevent/avoid it and see how that changes your life?

SpaceNoodle,

If their childhood was anything like mine, the impotence wouldn’t be fixed by knowledge.

adhocfungus,

I was gonna say the same. If I had to go back the only change I would make is avoiding the cops, school councilors, relatives, and judges I thought I could trust. Every attempt we made to get away from our mom made the beatings worse.

Rhynoplaz,

Thanks for sharing. I never went through anything like that, and it really says a lot that even with an adult mind, you wouldn’t know what you could do or want to risk trying. Hope you’re doing well now.

Droggelbecher,

Might be different because my abuse was psychological and covert sexual rather than physical. But for me, the inner boundaries I’ve learned through therapy would make a world of a difference.

theneverfox,
@theneverfox@pawb.social avatar

My childhood also sucked, but I’d go back.

My parents weren’t monsters, they were flawed people doing what they thought was best… If I could go back and clearly assert myself and my needs? Especially with what I know now?

I’d take that deal.

Not too mention, I’m a programmer. I know every major advancement we’ve made in the past decades…If I designed a language in the early 00’s, I would be worshipped by all programmers. I could’ve made Uber when the iphone launched, and never took a dime in investments. I’d also jump forward AI tech by a couple decades - I could make the world unrecognizable. I’d be a household name, although I’d probably use a pseudonym

Sigh_Bafanada,

Plus, all of my friends would effectively be dead if I took the red pill.

My 30 year-old mind is not going to be able to get along with my friends when they were also six, and no grownups are going to want to be friends with me as a six year-old, besides pedophiles.

It’d be a very lonely few decades, and no amount of stock exchange billions are worth that for me.

I’m definitely taking the money now.

GardenVarietyAnxiety,

Red pill. My dumbass thinks I could “fix” the people that fucked up my childhood with the knowledge I have now

DharmaCurious,
@DharmaCurious@startrek.website avatar

I plan on convincing my mom to leave my dad. Sadly, 6 isn’t young enough to prevent him from ruining her life, though. But at least she’ll get out earlier, and also I can hopefully prevent her from having a surgery that completely changed her life for the worse.

Karcinogen,

Blue. I’ve made mistakes, but I’m proud of how my life has turned out.

GrammatonCleric,
@GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world avatar

Blue pill, it said you revert to a certain age, but not a certain time, meaning any information you’ve kept could be useless in an unfamiliar environment.

Also, it never states that time and reality will play out the same exact way, making said knowledge even more useless.

MxM111,
@MxM111@kbin.social avatar

It also does not say about a location in space. So it might be Venus.

Jarix,

Equilibrium!

EdibleFriend,
@EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

There’s a fuck ton that I would know is coming and have absolutely no way of stopping. That is fucking hell.

Moonrise2473,

Red makes more potential money (buy Apple, buy BTC) but that means it would be almost impossible to meet all my friends and I need to make new ones. Ugh I hate talking with people

MxM111, (edited )
@MxM111@kbin.social avatar

I am taking both. Thank you. Nobody said that it is exclusive choice.

Pika,

blue pill, my existing knowledge won’t help me cause I’m not in a position to actually change things. 10 million dollars though… I could invest that and call it a day

Secret300,

You could get bitcoin before it blew up and get richer

Pika,

It doesn’t say you go back I time, just become younger, but if that’s how it works I could do that route, and have an early start on everything.

Secret300, (edited )

Well it says “restart your life at 6 years of age” so it’s healthy implying you’re gonna go back in time

bassomitron, (edited )

You could do way more than just get Bitcoin. You could do shorts/puts on all types of market spikes/crashes and just normal investing in Apple, Google, Tesla, Amazon, etc etc. You could literally become a multi-multi billionaire.

That is, if going back to 6 years old also means that you’ll at least be 18 way before or by the time the mid-90s/early 2000s rolled around.

Secret300,

Well I wouldn’t. I’d be 18 in 2020

bigkahuna1986,

Blue pill all day. I’d never give up my daughter and we could spend the rest of our lives vacationing.

SonicBlue03, (edited )

No restarts. Blue pill.

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