i.e. pay $5 to go back 5 days.

The time travel is permanent and one-way.

Edit: this is a one time offer and your budget is however much liquid cash you have right now. Cards are accepted, though.

For non-Americans, feel free to convert $1 USD to your currency

  • sharpiemarker
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    510 months ago

    Rough question for a guy who just lost his wife at 35. I'd empty my account to be able to have the time over.

  • ryan
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    410 months ago

    $1/day is pretty cheap. I've been alive around 12k days. For less than the price of a car, I can erase my own existence. Sounds like a bargain to me!

  • @SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.net
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    110 months ago

    I'd say this is incredibly cheap. That's $3,650 per decade. So if you're say 70 and you want to go back to your first day of high school (15yo for the sake of argument), that's a hair over $20k to basically live your entire life over.

    Of course the question is, do you de-age as you go back? Or does the 70yo stay a 70yo just 55 years ago? If you don't de-age, then the whole thing is much less useful- it's basically an opportunity to undo one or two mistakes.

  • @Blizzard@lemmy.zip
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    110 months ago

    A person comes up to you and says, “I can reverse time for just $1 per day.” Do you take their offer?

    Obviously not, I’d have to be an idiot to fall for this con.

  • kersploosh
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    110 months ago

    It's always tempting to say things like, "Go back to being 20 and relive young adulthood again, avoiding all the stupid mistakes I made the first time around." But I know I would make a whole new set of different stupid mistakes the second time.

    Knowing that, I would do what others have said: only go back enough days to play a winning lottery number or make some ridiculous stock options bet and become filthy rich.

  • @Erk@cdda.social
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    I’d go back to around the time my daughter started sleeping through the night. Don’t want to risk a reality where my kids don’t exist. I’d tell my friend the cancer is coming back, when it’s still early enough to do something.

    Don’t really know what else I’d do. Don’t really care. Be nice to live through those years again without changing much else to be totally honest

    • @ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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      -110 months ago

      That’s definitely a hard line in this thought experiment for me: the furthest I could possibly go back would be to the day my youngest was born.

      I can’t intentionally will one of my kids out of existence. And I don’t have any enjoyment fantasizing about if I could at any rate.

  • Poggervania
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    010 months ago

    They’re offering $1 per day? That’s $1 for every 24 hours you go back, which is around $0.04 per hour, which can be broken down even further to around $0.0007 per minute.

    I’d give them 1 penny to go back 15 minutes in time, find a penny on the ground, then find them again to go back the same 15 minutes in time over and over until I can figure out how to kidnap them in 15 minutes.

    After I successfully kidnap them, I will go on a bank heist and keep the time person near me so I can keep trying to rob a bank until I do so successfully. Then because they’re an accessory to the crime, I can blackmail them to let me rewind time for free at any time I wish so I can become a crime lord, otherwise I’ll give them to the police and let them know he can time-travel.

    EDIT: Just saw OP’s one-time offer clause, so I am assuming this means the time person retains their memory.

    I won’t immediately take them up on their offer - instead, I would take them out on a date or five first. Get to know them a bit better; where they lived growing up, how they grew up, how old they are - that kind of stuff.

    Then I would figure out how much money I can use to go back in time to my youngest point of life that also meets their youngest point in my same lifetime, and I’ll track them down from all the details they gave me while they were pegging me. I’ll become best friends with them, and convince them that we could be using their powers to become the dopest crime lords in history.

      • Poggervania
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        -110 months ago

        Yes - but there’s a non-zero chance one or both of us would be underage, so we’ll be chaste until 18. Then we enter the bone zone.

      • Poggervania
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        -110 months ago

        It’s not about the money here man - it’s about the power. The main squeeze here is becoming a crime lord, not getting rich.

    • @calabast@lemm.ee
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      010 months ago

      Keep giving them 1 penny and then tracking them down. Do this for most of your life until you are pretty young, and kidnap them. Then you can just relive your life over and over as many times as you want. I mean, sure, it's not the ethical way to use their power…

      • Poggervania
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        Oooo, that’s even better - all you have to do is find them within 14 minutes at most.