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If you had a one-way ticket to Jan 1, 1999 that departs on Jan 1, 2024, and you are allowed to bring whatever fits into a backpack with you, what would you bring to use to take over the world, and how (kbin.social)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Bizarroland@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Assume that the future can change based on your actions, so any historical information that you bring along with you from the intervening 25 years may quickly drift out of the new realities history.

Edit: also assume that you can be given a healthy 21-year-old body if you want or take your previous self's place.

Further, identification will be provided for you if you were not born at that time.

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[-] sciencesebi@feddit.ro 17 points 11 months ago

Information is power. A simple smartphone loaded with major historical decisions, sports results is enough to make you a billionaire. Take some tech textbooks to stay ahead of the game, maybe some newly developed medicine.

[-] Bizarroland@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

Given that the AIDS epidemic was still in full swing at the time, just being able to teach medicine makers how to make pRep would make you a billionaire just from the licensing fees.

[-] sciencesebi@feddit.ro 1 points 11 months ago

What's that? Profilactic?

You can just take back the experimental vaccine and save some people.

[-] Bizarroland@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

Prep is an anti-hiv pill.

If you engage in practices likely to expose you to HIV you should use prep.

If you have pRep in your system and you are exposed to HIV there is a high likelihood that the pRep will destroy the HIV and prevent the infection from ever taking hold.

Of course, it won't do anything to protect you from the other potential negative consequences of risky behaviors that would expose you to HIV, but considering that it helps protect you from one of the worst potential outcomes it's essentially a godsend.

[-] SteveTech@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago

Just thought Kiwix seems like it'll be handy here, it lets you download Wikipedia and some other websites, and they have an Android app to view them.

(They have a web version too, which I actually selfhost for if the world ends or something /s)

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