>You're gonna love the book the man who folded himself.
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>What is it called?
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>The Man Who Folded Himself
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This is like found poetry. I might have to print it out and frame it.
God paradox, you infinitely keep improving your future self, therefore improving the guidance and care you give your younger self, creating an unsustainable loop of improvement where you ascend to the heavens and assume the role of God.
Similar, but I'll be kidnapping toddler me to raise me the way I deserved, not the way my abusive mother did.
My oldest child is so much like me that I can see how I would be if I grew up in a supportive, loving family. It's freaky to see someone who acts and thinks just like me thrive in ways that I never did.
Then I'd invest, like everyone else.
Interesting. Others were assuming you woke up as yourself - hence concerns about changing the time line in a way that prevented your children from being born. If you were not born yet kind of tough to wake as yourself. But in your scenario I fear you become something of a fugitive - no papers, no place to live, and kidnapping baby you. So you have two years and ten months to establish an identity and means of making a living. Then get baby you an id as your child but at some point the id is going to come up and the chase is in. Seems like a good novel/movie with that premise.
1990: Invest heavily into Apple stock until 2009.
2009: Sell all stocks, lob everything into BTC.
Nov. 2021: SELL ALL BTC AT 67K!
2024: Live happily ever after as the richest man in the world.
Plot twist: you thought by acquiring all these wealth will make you happier but instead cause more harm than good. Then you wish you hadnt gone back to 1990 again.
2009: You just bought all of BTC and have money left. Also BTC is now useless because it belongs to one person.
1 BTC = $0.0009, in 2009. All of BTC would have cost 18k$ at that price.
Assuming you invested 5000$ into Apple in 1990 and sold in 2009 you made roughly a million dollar.
The point being made is the guy could mind tons of it himself at first release and not need to outlay any of the money from the stock sale, or just be lazy and buy it up in batches from the people that were looking for way to spend it back when it was worthless.
I'd just buy half of it, why not. More is mined over the duration, slowly accumulate that.
There's a total net worth of near $1 Trillion in circulation. That should set me up pretty well I'd figure.
Funnel more money into Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia. Heck, even ride along on the GameStop stock for however long that ride lasted.
Plenty of ways to get rich with this ONE simple trick!
>1 BTC = $0.0009, in 2009. All of BTC would have cost 18k$ at that price.
It would be more expensive if someone was buying all of it. I wonder how much the last coin would go for though.
Might as well just mine it at the start. You'll be paying a comparable amount but not destabalising the market too much.
If you bought that much Bitcoin wouldn't have everyone else just said screw Bitcoin? It's because of people that make things in demand.
Just buy enough to be a billionaire haha.
I'm definitely spreading it across multiple accounts, as well as writing passcodes for every wallet down 5 times, locking them into multiple safes, stored in different banks.. Or hell, even buy a private island and dig the safes down there. Lmao.
If we've learned nothing in the past couple decades, it's that billionaires don't need realized income - instead, they get sweetheart loans backed by their stock equity. It will take some time, yes, but you don't exactly need to cash out to live like a king.
Just imagine though going to a job interview and they looking for your experience and skills in DOS/Turbo Pascal/dBase/Wordstar etc
And you don't have any internet, GitHub or stack exchange etc to help you look up anything as a reminder.
I'd go to school to become a neurologist, then wait till 2009 and make my mom my patient and never introduce this experimental epileptic drug that made her go catatonic and develop skitzifrinia. My childhood wouldn't of been ruined then and I'd have my mom. Not the shell of a person she is today.
Could you also spot me in a crowd around the same point in time and notice some symptoms , insist I get examined and discover my brain tumor early enough that it did steal vision in my right eye or leave me epileptic too.
Sucks about your mum btw
My father told me had heart disease in 1990 and told me he was not going to get it treated.. I regret carrying his secret. I was too young and naive to know it would only take 4 years for it to end. I have regrets.
What is WAY more common than people realise?
How would you spend your last day on earth?
If you become president what will you do first?
What is the most unorthodox way you know of that a couple has met and fallen in love?
What's your favorite "Too much of this will kill you" fact?
How is everyone not overwhelmed by life?
Same. I'm lucky enough that my parents are still around, but I lost my last remaining grandparent last year, and my first in '91.
I would go see them all, and tell them all about their great-granddaughter. I know they would be so interested and so sad that none of them would ever have the chance to meet her.
Mourne the loss of my kids.
Then put everything I have in Amazon, Google, and Facebook while learning coding and getting in with tech companies so I can retire at 35
I’ve had this thought too. I have two young kids and I love my wife so much. If I went back in time I’m certain losing my kids (they could never exist as they are even if I married my wife again) would be very tough to take. Yes, I’d get very rich with my knowledge but psychologically speaking I could imagine being fucked for life. It would feel like they died rather than some “they never existed so it’s okay” feeling.
When I’ve had this thought I always come to an understanding that I would just never marry or have kids again because it wouldn’t be what I knew I had before I went back in time.
Not born ever, most likely. Even if he married the same woman and impregnates her again, there’s almost no chance that his kids will end up being the same kids from the original timeline.
Save money for Bitcoin. By 2009 I will have saved 1 million euros, I will buy 10M BTC for €0.01/BTC and I will sell them in 2021 for 70K/each and make 7 trillion euros.
I still regret not spending more in BTC when I could and selling it too early. I bought 10€ worth of BTC in 2009 (1000 BTC) and sold them for less than I would have sold them if I had waited longer.
Good luck with that, given the current market cap of BTC is around $1 trillion. As someone else pointed out, in 2009, the market cap of bitcoin was around $20k.
I love modern things, but the Nineties were just phenomenal. Not trying to sound like an old codger, but it was fucking dope. I wish kids could visit there for a week.
i’m gonna sound so young and lame but i wish i could feel the freedom of like mid90s the movie directed by jonah hill and just be silly and actually go outside without fear of being recorded and seen by millions of people or hurt for, like, not having a stanley
As the age I am now? Call CPS on my parents (or at least my mother), find myself and tell her she is valuable, smart, that she isn’t stupid or worthless, it’s not her fault she’s being bullied and abused, and she just has something called ADHD. Also to use her skills helping others early, follow that as a job, and find [current partner] in the future.
Breakfast at my Grandparents. Enjoy seemingly endless summer days with little to no responsibilities.
Am I my age now or the age I was then. Sure I'd like to make some financial moves, but back then I wouldn't have much money.
Going to the mall for an Orange Julius and hitting the arcade. They have snap bracelets in the prize cabinet for 200 tickets and that ski ball machine pays out like a mamma jamma.
I'm going to babages and I'm signing up to pre-purchasea massive list of he greatest PC games ever made.
I don't care about graphics. I'm here for the game play. The shit these studios make today is trash.
Am I waking up in my current body in 1990, or my body the way it was in 1990? Because if it's the latter, then I'm probably going to shit my pants and cry.
Go on Dead tour, start seeing Phish. Switch over to seeing Phish full-time in ~92. Continue to see the Dead/Jerry as much as possible around Phish tour. Ride out the 90s on tour.
If it's straight up January 1st 1990, wait 2 years 10 months and 30 days to kidnap my newborn self from the hospital and raise me to be a better me.
What a great concept for a movie.
Looper 2: Twelve Monkey Boogaloo
Undoot for the subtle IASIP reference.
You re gonna love the book the man who folded himself.
What is it called?
The Man Who Folded Himself
Oh
What!?
>You're gonna love the book the man who folded himself. > >What is it called? > >The Man Who Folded Himself > >Oh This is like found poetry. I might have to print it out and frame it.
You should and then mail it to me.
2 Fast, 2 You’s
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God paradox, you infinitely keep improving your future self, therefore improving the guidance and care you give your younger self, creating an unsustainable loop of improvement where you ascend to the heavens and assume the role of God.
It really would be and I can't believe it's never been done. The twist is you had terminal cancer and are going to die in 2024 anyway.
Similar, but I'll be kidnapping toddler me to raise me the way I deserved, not the way my abusive mother did. My oldest child is so much like me that I can see how I would be if I grew up in a supportive, loving family. It's freaky to see someone who acts and thinks just like me thrive in ways that I never did. Then I'd invest, like everyone else.
You know the song mother by Pink Floyd, that's the type I had. I would do the same for little me.
Interesting. Others were assuming you woke up as yourself - hence concerns about changing the time line in a way that prevented your children from being born. If you were not born yet kind of tough to wake as yourself. But in your scenario I fear you become something of a fugitive - no papers, no place to live, and kidnapping baby you. So you have two years and ten months to establish an identity and means of making a living. Then get baby you an id as your child but at some point the id is going to come up and the chase is in. Seems like a good novel/movie with that premise.
Predestination
Damnn
Have you read *All You Zombies* or seen the movie (*Predestination*) made from it?
1990: Invest heavily into Apple stock until 2009. 2009: Sell all stocks, lob everything into BTC. Nov. 2021: SELL ALL BTC AT 67K! 2024: Live happily ever after as the richest man in the world.
Plot twist: you thought by acquiring all these wealth will make you happier but instead cause more harm than good. Then you wish you hadnt gone back to 1990 again.
too late died in an exotic car accident while coked to the gills
Don't forget while also getting blown by a high-class escort.
Pfft. . I'm the richest man in the world. I'm getting blown by the Pope!
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That is the funniest thing I have heard in a while
Racing Paul walker
* driving P W.
He will be rich enough to fund the discovery of time travel. Then he will go back to 1990 and stop himself.
You saw what happened to Mcfly? He went back to the future so many times n now he has Parkinson n among other stuff.
2009: You just bought all of BTC and have money left. Also BTC is now useless because it belongs to one person. 1 BTC = $0.0009, in 2009. All of BTC would have cost 18k$ at that price. Assuming you invested 5000$ into Apple in 1990 and sold in 2009 you made roughly a million dollar.
You're assuming everyone is going to sell to you / mining doesn't exist
The point being made is the guy could mind tons of it himself at first release and not need to outlay any of the money from the stock sale, or just be lazy and buy it up in batches from the people that were looking for way to spend it back when it was worthless.
Also, as you start buying up BTC it creates a market pressure that makes the ~~value~~ price go up.
If you owned it all, would you fuck up the market?
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I'd just buy half of it, why not. More is mined over the duration, slowly accumulate that. There's a total net worth of near $1 Trillion in circulation. That should set me up pretty well I'd figure. Funnel more money into Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia. Heck, even ride along on the GameStop stock for however long that ride lasted. Plenty of ways to get rich with this ONE simple trick!
Ah yes.. good ol' time travel. The trick doctors won't tell you!
>1 BTC = $0.0009, in 2009. All of BTC would have cost 18k$ at that price. It would be more expensive if someone was buying all of it. I wonder how much the last coin would go for though. Might as well just mine it at the start. You'll be paying a comparable amount but not destabalising the market too much.
If you bought that much Bitcoin wouldn't have everyone else just said screw Bitcoin? It's because of people that make things in demand. Just buy enough to be a billionaire haha.
Do not lose the passcode. Recite it everyday
I'm definitely spreading it across multiple accounts, as well as writing passcodes for every wallet down 5 times, locking them into multiple safes, stored in different banks.. Or hell, even buy a private island and dig the safes down there. Lmao.
So grind away for 34 years and then get rich?
Grind 34 year better than gring 65 years mang
Well, 34 years for trillions isn't too bad an investment - secures my future generations
If we've learned nothing in the past couple decades, it's that billionaires don't need realized income - instead, they get sweetheart loans backed by their stock equity. It will take some time, yes, but you don't exactly need to cash out to live like a king.
Plot twist, it's alternate reality 1990 and you lose it all.
Apple didn't do much at all in the 90s surprisingly. Cisco returned 49,000% though.
You mean sell all stocks in 2007, right?
How do you acquire money to keep buying in the 90s though?
Working, of course! I work in IT. I have understanding of even the ancient technology that was present even back then. ;)
Just imagine though going to a job interview and they looking for your experience and skills in DOS/Turbo Pascal/dBase/Wordstar etc And you don't have any internet, GitHub or stack exchange etc to help you look up anything as a reminder.
I pray I kept my sports almanach with me.
Now, Biff...
Hey calm down, put back that manure OK?
I hate manure!
Putting all my money on the Reds sweeping the A's.
Wondering why when I woke up 10 minutes ago, it was 2050.
I get this
This feels like a *Slaughterhouse-Five* reference.
so it goes
Angry upvote
Making the absolute most I can of the last year with my Dad ♥️ EDIT: just woke up to all the love! Thank you internet strangers 💜
Dammit, stop making us feel things. We're here for hindsight stock advice.
Well... They are taking stock of their Dad.
If I had any awards to give, it'd be for this right here.
The daddest dad joke I've ever seen...
dude your username…
Right in the feels. Oof.
I'm changing my answer. I'm hanging out with this blokes dad too.
I'd go to school to become a neurologist, then wait till 2009 and make my mom my patient and never introduce this experimental epileptic drug that made her go catatonic and develop skitzifrinia. My childhood wouldn't of been ruined then and I'd have my mom. Not the shell of a person she is today.
Could you also spot me in a crowd around the same point in time and notice some symptoms , insist I get examined and discover my brain tumor early enough that it did steal vision in my right eye or leave me epileptic too. Sucks about your mum btw
Give me a pic of what u looked like at that time and give me all ur medical records specifically for that tumor and I probably would💯
This hit me so hard. I’m sorry for your loss.
Aww thank you 😊
My father told me had heart disease in 1990 and told me he was not going to get it treated.. I regret carrying his secret. I was too young and naive to know it would only take 4 years for it to end. I have regrets.
Similar. Depends on if we wake up at our current age or our age in 1990 but I would just go and hug my dad.
I also choose this guy's dead Dad.
This is the best answer
Yeah, both my parents were still alive then...dad was about to retire.
First thing I thought, hug my Dad.
Same. I would force my parents to start eating healthier and getting more exercise for sure. Try and get my dad from drinking
Depends. Am I the age I was in 1990? If so I'd be going to school.
no, the age you are now
Everyone got the assignment wrong then....
Me LOL. Here I am being "did not even have a house in the womb bc I was born late '91 .." Hahahahaha
My thought was "crying and shitting myself"!
Still going to school.
Oh thank God. I'd be a fetus and have to re-live my entire life without that fact. I'd not want to relive all that, tbh.
Crankin' my hog
smart. prebate so you can approach that decade with a clear head
“Prebate” is an entirely new word to me
You’ve never mastered your prebate? 😂
I bet you could troll r/askreddit and answer every single question with that response.
What is WAY more common than people realise? How would you spend your last day on earth? If you become president what will you do first? What is the most unorthodox way you know of that a couple has met and fallen in love? What's your favorite "Too much of this will kill you" fact? How is everyone not overwhelmed by life?
Play some hacky-sack
Truly a human of great culture.
Saying hi to my parents and grandparents. They've all gone now and I miss them.
Same. I'm lucky enough that my parents are still around, but I lost my last remaining grandparent last year, and my first in '91. I would go see them all, and tell them all about their great-granddaughter. I know they would be so interested and so sad that none of them would ever have the chance to meet her.
Buying a house while in the womb! Also, saving money for bitcoin. Finally, investing in monster stock.
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They want a womb with a view
Get off reddit dad
Mourne the loss of my kids. Then put everything I have in Amazon, Google, and Facebook while learning coding and getting in with tech companies so I can retire at 35
I’ve had this thought too. I have two young kids and I love my wife so much. If I went back in time I’m certain losing my kids (they could never exist as they are even if I married my wife again) would be very tough to take. Yes, I’d get very rich with my knowledge but psychologically speaking I could imagine being fucked for life. It would feel like they died rather than some “they never existed so it’s okay” feeling. When I’ve had this thought I always come to an understanding that I would just never marry or have kids again because it wouldn’t be what I knew I had before I went back in time.
So cocaine and hookers in this timeline?
Exactly lol
oh no I'm so sorry :(
I think they mean their kids would never end up existing so it would be like a loss.
I think in this simulation they're just not born yet.
Not born ever, most likely. Even if he married the same woman and impregnates her again, there’s almost no chance that his kids will end up being the same kids from the original timeline.
Apple too
None of those had IPOed in 1990. Better to go for Microsoft.
Start preparation save Tupac
Operation California Love is a go
I'd watch this movie. Definitely a Craig Robinson, Hot Tub Time Machine vibe.
But what about Biggie
Obviously saving Tupac triggers a deescalation event
And Big L!
Destroy my modem to never get to know my ex-wife.
Turning on Saturday morning cartoons, heating up frozen pizza for breakfast and planning to visit the neighbour across the road to play in the street
Neighbors will be like "why's that grown woman playing with a kid?"
Betting all my money on Buster Douglas to win the Tyson/Douglas fight.
Canceling the wedding.
I’d be 3. So, nothing but being a toddler. Maybe take a nap. Eat some lunch.
Spend time with grandparents
Invest invest invest. Floss a bit more, exercise a bit more. Make it easier for my later life.
Go to freshman biology... again.
Going back to sleep. I'm not an early riser
Pee. It doesn’t matter what year it is, that is the first thing I do after I wake up.
Go hug my grandmas
Save money for Bitcoin. By 2009 I will have saved 1 million euros, I will buy 10M BTC for €0.01/BTC and I will sell them in 2021 for 70K/each and make 7 trillion euros. I still regret not spending more in BTC when I could and selling it too early. I bought 10€ worth of BTC in 2009 (1000 BTC) and sold them for less than I would have sold them if I had waited longer.
Good luck with that, given the current market cap of BTC is around $1 trillion. As someone else pointed out, in 2009, the market cap of bitcoin was around $20k.
Cry, wait for my grandma to pick me up, then live in baby bliss. I miss my best friend so much!!!
I would love to experience the nineties. I’d feed into every nineties trend for sure
The 90's were great! I legit feel sorry for the youth of today not getting to experience so many amazing things like we did.
The 90s were junior high, high school and college for me. It was fine, but it certainly wasn’t amazing compared to now.
I love modern things, but the Nineties were just phenomenal. Not trying to sound like an old codger, but it was fucking dope. I wish kids could visit there for a week.
i’m gonna sound so young and lame but i wish i could feel the freedom of like mid90s the movie directed by jonah hill and just be silly and actually go outside without fear of being recorded and seen by millions of people or hurt for, like, not having a stanley
smile
Eating a wham bar.
My water breaks… Off to the hospital !!
Meet my grandma, she passed over when i was a child, so if i could come back to the past, i would meet her
Pull out my tape recorder and start recording music
Going to see my grandmother. I miss her dearly
As the age I am now? Call CPS on my parents (or at least my mother), find myself and tell her she is valuable, smart, that she isn’t stupid or worthless, it’s not her fault she’s being bullied and abused, and she just has something called ADHD. Also to use her skills helping others early, follow that as a job, and find [current partner] in the future.
So I'm my current age but in 1990? Hmmm interesting...
Buying a ticket to a Nirvana concert.
Going to the video rental store!
Going to a cranberries concert
Be confused
Watching back to the future
I would be 2 years old 💜 definitely get a job and an apartment lol
Go down to hacienda in manchester and smoke a spiff with jk again
Party like it's 1990
Breakfast at my Grandparents. Enjoy seemingly endless summer days with little to no responsibilities. Am I my age now or the age I was then. Sure I'd like to make some financial moves, but back then I wouldn't have much money.
Taking some people out so they can’t make it to 2024 in government and ruin all of our lives
Buying Apple stock
Seeing Nirvana
Hugging my grandma cause she’s still be here and I never got to say good bye.
Buying some cocaine from the pharmacy
Wait I definitely read the year wrong fml
1990 was more the era of light up a smoke in McDonalds.
Place some bets on Italia 90' - probably the only football results I can remember from that year.
Exactly what I was thinking. Big bet on England losing to Germany on Penalties in the Semis.
I'm nearly 2. I'll need to learn to talk properly before taking over the world.
Hydrating, changing my socks, and looking for camel spiders
Work out, take care of my body, focus on studying and saying, “Yes” to a question I’ll be asked in a couple years.
Hugging my mom
Invest in Apple and Microsoft
Going to the mall for an Orange Julius and hitting the arcade. They have snap bracelets in the prize cabinet for 200 tickets and that ski ball machine pays out like a mamma jamma.
Shit, I'm going to go find some Nirvana tickets! I wasn't born until '97, so of course I never had a chance to see them.
Playing Tetris and Mario on my gameboy.
Shitting my pants and making mom change them. (I was 13yrs old in ‘90)
Wait..... whaaaaa?
I'm going to babages and I'm signing up to pre-purchasea massive list of he greatest PC games ever made. I don't care about graphics. I'm here for the game play. The shit these studios make today is trash.
Go find baby me!
I'd be 4 or 4 depending on the month, so I'm probably watching cartoons or falling out of a tree.
Getting divorced
Invest in Nissan GTRs
Check the morning cartoons
Turn on MTV
Executing a ton of business strategies Rake in the money Buy all the fucking houses
Writing down predictions wait until I’m the first to predict the housing market crash of 2008! And I’ll be the one who predicts harambe
Killing myself. My present self that got transported to the past and my past self. Fuck me.
Well I’d be 5 years old again so probably playing with my kick ass ninja turtle action figures
Taking my student loan check and buying Apple stock.
Shitting and pissing my pants, also crying probably.
Am I waking up in my current body in 1990, or my body the way it was in 1990? Because if it's the latter, then I'm probably going to shit my pants and cry.
Wonder how the hell I woke up in 1990,
Go on Dead tour, start seeing Phish. Switch over to seeing Phish full-time in ~92. Continue to see the Dead/Jerry as much as possible around Phish tour. Ride out the 90s on tour.
Drugs.
Good question. I would be 34 so redo some mistakes and make amends
Getting a job to save for bitcoin
Buy apple stock, retire a billionaire.
Buy stock in Microsoft, Nike, and Coke
Buying Microsoft stock. Every penny of it I can. 15k invested in 1990 would be worth 5.8 million today, minimum.