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    Look up last week’s lottery numbers, then head back to last week.

    I don’t wanna play the make money game anymore.

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      If your parents didn’t meet and make you, then it is likely they would have met other people and made other people. Don’t put the curse of your existence off on some other poor sap. Stand up and drink your cup.

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          I hope your cup gets filled with some Aztec style chocolate in the near future (or modern style, or something else, whatever you like having in a cup)

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            I’m already outside way more than normal. The problem is I’m completely disconnected. I’m an American without employment, I’m skirting my own destruction every day. Don’t have money for the pub and I gave up drinking last year due to doctors’ orders. If I had a choice between doing my life over again or never having existed I’ll take the latter.

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    Assuming it’s a one way trip, I’d probably go to the year 1998, Impersonate my dad, Rescue child me from some shit, Win the lottery, Stop 9/11, and then die and leave my younger self with more money and power than he could reasonably cope with.

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    To the middle of the carboniferous to check if it is true the hypothesis of the delayed fungal evolution. Forests growing for millions of years and wood not decaying? The mountains of dead trees is something I want to see.

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    Are are we applying butterfly effect mechanics here? If yes, the farthest I’ll probably go is the previous 24 hours to have the least impact on the things I don’t want to lose/change. Then I’ll probably bet on the lottery.

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    To the point when humanity’s earliest ancestor dared leave the ocean. I’d kick it back into the sea. Civilization was a mistake.

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    This timeline is already fucked so I really can’t make it any worse, so I’d go back just to fuck with the timeline.
    Take written volumes on mathmatics, science, and engineering and hand them out in Greece and Arabia a few thousand years ago and see what kind of world we end up with instead.

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      Monkey’s Paw answer is the same world we have today because the books are in English and/or the math symbols were not standardized back then.

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        This. The modern mathematical symbols, at least in their current use, are no older than 550 years. Heck, the numerals we use are about as old as that. The Arabic world had a head start with early versions of those numerals, but even then, those are only twice as old as the oldest mathematical symbols still in use.

        Prior to that, people wrote things out in words, or, as you suggest, invented their own symbologies and shorthands.

        I have a book around here somewhere that shows how Diophantus wrote a particular polynomial equation and it’s all Greek letters, some with macrons (overlines), some superscripts that don’t mean what we’d use superscripts to mean, and one large upturned capital psi in the middle of it. Mind-boggling.

        And they’d be more mystified by our notation than we are by theirs because at least we (or some of us) know what Greek letters and numerals are. They’d have no such head start.

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          True, but I think if the book is given to the right (group of) people, their curiosity to figure out of the book will likely lead them to it being translated rather fast.

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    All the way back. With the knowledge that I shouldn’t trust or put faith in people.

    Instead of seeking out truth I would just be an average person.

    I would leave home asap and not stick around a town of hate and crime.

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    I’d like to witness the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ

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    I nearly killed my new lawn because I didn’t water it enough.

    Just go back a few days and let me water it well.

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    Go back where about to transition to homosepians and give ourselves a favor by eliminating every single one and give way to lizard people.