• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    10 days ago

    “The Lotto numbers for 2026-09-12 are 16 20 25 33 39 45, Superzahl 0.”

    Sounds materialistic, but I haven’t found a solution for any of the issues I had 5 years ago, I didn’t make any major wrong decisions since then, and stuff like “buy RAM and GPUs” is irrelevant after winning millions of eurobucks.

    • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
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      10 days ago

      I had a similar thought, but I would send, “The winning Powerball numbers for November 5, 2022 will be 28 45 53 56 69, with a power ball of 20.”

      Since the Nov. 7, 2022 jackpot was $2.04 billion dollars, I would just send the winning numbers for the previous drawing that no one won. No reason to go small when I could take a huge jackpot with nearly a billion dollar lump sum payout.

    • lauha@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      Plot twist, your past self receives the sentence verbally and they have nothing to write it down to.

      • Redfox8@mander.xyz
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        10 days ago

        …receives message whilst scuba diving…spits out regulator in frustration…drowns. Never gets to send message from the future so doesn’t drown.

        Timeline broken, existence ends except for an endless five-year loop.

        Woops!

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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        10 days ago

        The sequence of the numbers is not important and it’s not all or nothing (5 correct numbers would still net a decent amount of money), so there’s a chance that I’d recall enough to make use of it anyway. But it’s a good point, this kind of thing hinges on the specifics of how the sentence is transmitted much more than something like “take out fire insurance” or “don’t trust X”.

    • Otter@lemmy.ca
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      10 days ago

      If we had more time, then you could have sent back the lotto numbers from 5 years ago

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    It’s me 5 years from the future, [secret I’ve never told anyone should prove it] buy European defense stocks before 2022.

    • Goldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 days ago

      I litterly, 5 years ago was thinking of doing it even with the little money i had.

      Am regretting it daily. And tortuting myself almost monthly on how i could have turned 10€ into 1000€

  • squirrel@cake.kobel.fyiEnglish
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    10 days ago

    That anxiety, that depression, that feeling of never fitting in, that feeling of either boredom or overwhelm… is ADHD.

    Tbh, I wish I could transmit this to my past self 30 years ago.

  • lonefighter@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    Don’t move across the country with him, get a divorce, your gut instincts are right, he’s been cheating on you this whole time and he’s about to financially ruin you.

    • dryfter@ani.social
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      10 days ago

      I honestly thought the same thing but I’m not entirely sure it would have mattered.

      BTC 6 years ago was still 10k. Yeah, you could take out a loan for a “sure thing”, but 🤷.

      • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        For me, it would have, but just because of the timing.

        I was selling newspaper ads back then. Typically, a shitty job, but the hospital got a multi million dollar grant to use towards COVID advertising. I made a lot of commissions during that time, but now it’s all gone.