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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

erasing myself from existence

Hmm, that would be my goal 🤔

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 4 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] m4xie@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks 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

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

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

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

A certain Austrian being rejected for art school.

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

That messes with your ability to exist

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

The writing of the Christian bible.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 weeks 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.