Ask Lemmy

How will I survive if I cannot die? I just will

I think if I was 20 I could just backpack all over, get easy cash in hand jobs and fuck around for decades. However, if I'm sent back now at 48 being twice the weight I was at 20 I'd probably struggle as this late middle-aged oddball who has come from nowhere and has no period-specific skills.

So you just get a normal job and get to live through one of the greatest economic booms of American history where you can raise a family of 5 with one singular income?

Literally just go to work for 40hrs a day 5 days a week and you could have damn near anything you want as long as you're white?

This is a dumb "what if".

It's gonna be tough being a queer POC but I'd probably just be a sidequest queen and travel the world doing random shit, trying not to stay in the same place for too long and not return until i can reasonably claim to be my own child

Fuck it dude, I'd just go bowling.

I stay in my same body, at the same age I am now, keep all my teeth, etc? I am nearsighted, it's gonna be difficult.

What happens when I pass the day I am born, though? Are there 2 of me?

I don't think I'd change the timeline much anyway, it seems hard to. Though I'd love to become a lawyer and advise Al Gore against conceding the election he won. Even if I ceased to exist that might be worth it.

Hide in a cave for an eternity then. If no one knows I exist, then I live forever.

Oh god, SNOW!!!

How do you survive until modern day?

I just do ... you literally said I cannot die.

Sit around and wait. I'm immortal.

immortal

looks inside

how do you survive?

Become a famous actor, nobody will believe I'm immortal because it's not possible.

Immune to disease? Welp, time to become a massive slut throughout the ages.

I would survive on Mamie Van Doren, Brigitte Bardot, Sheree North, Rebecca De Mornay, Pam Grier, Rosie Perez... I mean I could go on.

...I mean someone's gotta make horny posts without Violet here, right?

What happens when you get to your birth date? Do you stop existing as a time-traveller and start being a baby? I was born in 1952, so I'd get less than seven years of time travel. Hardly worth the effort, especially if I don't remember it.

Seems like I would survive no matter what?

Since I’m not allowed to become famous I guess I’d go find a sweet island somewhere and periodically send world governments anonymous letters about things to avoid, if I can, rules were kind of unclear, am I allowed to change the future just as long as it’s not to my personal benefit or not at all cause that going to be impossible, and enjoy my life

if I am immortal then just do my own thing. Work a job for a while and move on. Rinse and repeat. I have been a nobody for 63 years. It is not really that hard. You know like the Highlander.

As I was reading this, I disappeared in a flash of light and landed in 1945. But I have a plan.

• Learn acoounting, get a job, grind for 10 or so years
• Start investing in Ford, GE etc. and wait for the compound interest to kick in
• Buy a farm, continue to invest. Retire "early"
• Grow a beard, get some white hair paint
• Travel to "relatives" in Australia for 6 months every year
• While in Australia, get rid of beard, set up alternative identity as my own nephew, get involved in fledgling computer domain, invest
• Back home, take up fishing, end up disappearing at sea one day, nephew inherits everything
• I am nephew. Got enough money now to stop working, buy a vineyard in NZ, spend 6 months in the year abroad
• Invest in IBM, I should be filthy rich by now
• Hire professionals to set up a dozen or so alternate identities in English speaking countries. Kill nephew, avoid Australia for the next 20 years
• Numbered Swiss accounts, different looks, pro theatre makeup, the works. By now my 10+ offshore companies own 10% of Berkshire Hathaway between them
• Rotate identities as needed. Invest in the dot com bubble from 100+ offshore shell companies. Cash in and buy tech stocks after the crash. I am now richer than God, but still not intervene in not-yet-current affairs
• No posh events, no media, no socials ffs. My ghosts come and go. I own a few law firms that take care of business and identity management. When suspicions arise, I change countries. Ireland works for a while. I now own 10-20% of all major tech companies, because I bought them before it was cool
• I get into crypto early. Money has no meaning anymore. I mark the days and months remaining to May 19, 2026, when all of this began. I need to insert myself into my old life right as past me begins the journey, will probably feign a nasty flu afterwards to get back on track. Small price to pay for total freedom

And here we are. Money wise, I own about half the world and now I can finally act. Where should I start?