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[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think Al Gore losing to Bush made a pretty big impact.

[–] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 week ago

Oooooh good one.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The weasel getting into the supercollider around 2014 and throwing us to the Hell Timeline.

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

2014? World's been fucked for a looong time before that :D Like, a century before that lol

True. But the open gate into the Event Horizon dimension is kinda new.

[–] moonlight@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Probably either stop Columbus or Hitler.

[–] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 week ago

Columbus is a good one. If you're into Native American history I recently read this book found it really interesting

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I've always wondered what it would look like if someone could travel back in time like 200 years before the discovery of the Americas and share a bunch of technology with native Americans, like guns and whatnot, and then warn them to never trust the people coming across the ocean in a few hundred years.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Depends how far back in history. I would worry about unintentionally making things worse or erasing myself from existence, Back-to-the-Future style. I'd probably go with something low stakes like "don't spill milk on the floor last week".

[–] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 4 points 1 week ago

The spilled milk stopped a wild bear coming in and eating you. Now the milk is gone the bear is present

[–] iii@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

erasing myself from existence

Hmm, that would be my goal 🤔

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't want to pretend I can foresee the unforeseeable consequences of altering the past, even slightly, so I wouldn't change a thing.

"Oh look, it's raining again..!"

[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Same. I'm not a god, I'm not gonna pretend to be.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Still, it'd be fun to twiddle a knob and find the result

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Thought that about my own life. I'll eat it, mistakes and all.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Ooohhh, no, I ain't messing with time like that.

Too many unpredictables.

It's always nice to think about preventing the inquisition, or Nazi Germany, or whatever horror humankind has perpetrated.

But trying to undo something that major, you can't know what all will change. There's threads wiggling through the tapestry of time, and you start snipping one, and ten others can fall loose.

That being said, I'm going to risk undoing the debacle that was New Coke. That was an abomination, and even if we end up worse for the lack of it, it would be worth it

[–] m4xie@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

First fish to crawl onto land, I'd boot it as far back into the water as I could.

[–] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm gonna distract Trump with shiny things so he never runs for office

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Stop Obama from roasting Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner. Might have prevented everything since.

Climbing out of the trees. Barring that, agriculture. Shit went downhill fast from that point on.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

A certain Austrian being rejected for art school.

[–] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd also have to go with Columbus. Really preventing Europe from beginning the colonial project of the Americas would probably have taken humanity off the bad ending track

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

That messes with your ability to exist

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

The writing of the Christian bible.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 week ago

Prevent whatever ape who gave birth to the ape which had the mutation which eventually led to humans being born from mating.

The planet would be so much better off.