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Started as a shower thought (literally in the shower), but decided to make it more open-ended.

My answer to this would be "watch future seasons of anime that I am waiting on".

I don't see how that could cause a huge ripple through time.

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[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago

The world has yet to notice me traveling one day into the future every 24 hours.

[-] Rossaluss@feddit.uk 17 points 1 month ago

There's a quote in a book I like along those lines, that goes: "First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day."

I've always really liked that

[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

We travel into the future at the blindingly fast rate of one second per second.

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[-] pineapple_pizza@lemmy.dexlit.xyz 30 points 1 month ago

Going back a few hours and getting some more sleep sounds nice

[-] EighthLayer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

A full night’s sleep every night does sound good. I wonder what that’s like.

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[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 month ago

Rewind the last 15 seconds of a meal to enjoy the last bite again.

[-] JonsJava@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Wow. Great idea! You get to enjoy a great meal again, but without getting overfull

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thank you! I think the same idea could be applied to any short, fleeting moment where you'd take no different action, like an enjoyable sunset or a sweet smell, though being able to experience those again and again may diminish their value.

That would just affect you, though, not the timeline as a whole.

[-] unreachable@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[-] Makhno@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Aaand we've created a new addiction problem

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[-] Redfox8@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

But then you'd have to fight yourself for that last bite! Oh the paradox begins, who was it that took the last bite then?!

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago

Let's just say no one's noticed anything yet

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I wrote a novel where in future people time travel back in time to watch movies in the theater like the original Star Wars. It's book one of a series.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

It's book one of a series.

So naturally it's called part IV, right?

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[-] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago
[-] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago

"Alright, it says my microwave meal takes four minutes..."

[-] Nemo@midwest.social 15 points 1 month ago

Instead of rewinding the video, just rewind causality.

And when you skip ads you really skip ads.

[-] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Watch Primer, that's the whole point of the movie, how a couple of engineers who discover time travel try to profit from it while causing the least impact possible.

Also easily my favorite time travel movie by a long shot, and I'm a time travel movie fan.

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[-] wetsoggybread@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Time travel to 12 hours ago so I can get more sleep

[-] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 3 points 1 month ago

It'd feel too weird sleeping with myself, which would result in lower quality sleep, requiring another trip back in time for more sleep, which would put more people in my bed...

[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Future time travellers going back in time to the moment the first time machine was invented to figure out how that one worked because in the future theirs suck and are locked down to prevent abuse.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Going forward three days to when it's $2 beer night at the bar.

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[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Anthropology while cloaked, as the Temporal Prime Directive requires

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[-] emmy67@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

We are all travelling through time right now with very little impact.

Yes I know, I suck.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Go back in time and prevent your time machine from working.

Nice tight little loop. Minimal interference, hopefully.

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[-] november@lemmy.vg 6 points 1 month ago

Cheap and easy food storage.

Make a dozen extra servings of whatever I'm cooking and just leave it in the pot on the stove. When I'm hungry in the future I'll come back and serve myself up another bowl. When I take the last serving, I leave a note saying when I came from so I know to prepare another batch by then.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

By doing it in the vastness of empty space.

[-] jonathanvmv8f@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

I am seeing this comment right after I finished 'Life is Strange'...

Tap for spoilerI think I will stay away from time travel for now

[-] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Traveling a second back in time to scratch that itch before it even happens. Maybe going back in time to tell yourself not to order that taco bell. Skipping forward in time to skip a hot pocket cooking in the microwave. Traveling a couple of minutes into the future to skip a boring conversation with the officer that pulled you over.

Here's the real question, if it's possible to time travel isn't it just part of the timeline even if it doesn't seem like it. If you could traverse forward and backwards in time like a tape deck isn't it already laid out including all of the time traveling you'll ever do.

[-] all-knight-party@kbin.run 4 points 1 month ago

Oh wow, skipping a microwaving hot pocket just reminded me of the movie Click and how SPOILERS FOR CLICK it just adapts and starts fast forwarding through shit it doesn't think he wants to see until he realizes he misses those things

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[-] somenonewho@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Traveling a few minutes into the future to skip a boring conversation with the office that pulled you over

Skips time ... Cuffed on the floor

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[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Going forward at all seems less harmful than going back, but perhaps more dangerous.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Agreed, but going forward would also then open the risk of trying to capitalise on/prevent what you saw, once you return to your present, which probably wouldn't end well.

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Safer way would probably be going forward and staying there, like another comment said. Maybe use it to skip boring stuff, like waiting in line at the DMV, or waiting for your food to be served, etc.

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

If it were ever possible, I'd say, just as an observer. There are lots of things I'd love to experience for the first time again but I personally have little desire to change the past.

[-] Potatisen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Going massive events that are either completely void of people or full of people.

Star exploding? No one around, nothing to change.

Parade for the astronauts coming back from the moon?

What's another guy standing around, just minding my own business.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Parade for the astronauts coming back from the moon?

What’s another guy standing around, just minding my own business.

OR THE OPENING OF A BRIDGE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA IN 1941?! What are you, some sort of time-travelling bridge freak?

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[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Travel forward in time to when the shower is warm.

[-] VanHalbgott@lemmus.org 3 points 1 month ago

Doing it in the style of a Connie Willis novel?

Or like the comic-book Flash instead of the current-day MCU Avengers team post Endgame?

The Avengers tampered with time for corporate reasons, but I think the Flash understands time.

As for the Connie Willis novels, think like Black Out or Doomsday Book, those that I’ve read.

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[-] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 3 points 1 month ago

To me the rules of time travel are that it is time travel only. Go forward or back more than a few seconds and you'll find yourself floating in the vacuum of space rapidly dying as the earth, the galaxy and the universe continues moving.

[-] MTK@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Go back in time and fill the lottery, but don't check the winning numbers before going back.

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