re: If you could take a 1 way ticket back to any time period would you?

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would go back and change the mind of the first guy who thought importing cheap labor from Africa was a good idea....

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enjoy your time hanging with the Portuguese. They are on that action before Columbus explored to the Caribbean

Heck, the Arabs were deep in the African slave trades for centuries before the exploration of the western world

My point is that slavery was widespread in the pre-modern world and throughout cultures

The conquerors enslaved the conquered

Africans do not have a monopoly on slavery. Jewish and Asian slavery rivals, if not exceeds, the levels of African slave trade

I just don't think that it could have been stopped

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2. Buy about $30,000 of Apple stock. Would be worth about 10 million today.

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Or just bet $10,000 on the Kentucky derby Superfecta. You'd have netted $760M if you'd have done it yesterday.

You're thinking too small.

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Just prior to 1996. In 96, apple's stock jumped like 300%. I would dump every conceivable amount of money I could find and get my hands on into that stock. Then after spring of 96, so lots of cocaine and hookers.

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So you'd waste a one-way time machine ride to only triple your money? You know you could make a big bet on literally anything with better than 3 to 1 odds and do much better than that, right?

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anyone not saying dinosaurs is lying

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I've watched jurassic Park one too many times.



frick. That.

I'd go back in time and stop the slave trade coming to America.

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May 2011

Pop Rouge died that month in a vehicle accident.

I could have warned him.

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I always think back to when I was a freshman. I came home for the weekend and my buddy down the street , who was still a H.S. senior, came by and asked if I wanted to go out. I declined because I was helping dad prepare a family dinner.

Just as we were putting dishes away after dinner, a distraught friend knocked on the door, and she was crying profusely. My buddy had six people in his car, and he tried to race someone over a hill. When he topped the hill, he ran headfirst into a car coming the other direction at full speed, killing everyone in his car and the elderly couple in the other car.

I flipped out for weeks wondering had I been with him, would this have still happened and I'd have been killed or would I have been the change in circumstances that kept it from happening? It put me into therapy, I was so depressed over it. I always wondered, if I could go back, would it make a difference?

Go back more time and get him off nitrate preserved or smoked meats and buy him a colonic now and then.

September 9, 1958

November 12, 1955. Hill Valley is beautiful at that time and I could live well as a hard working white guy, make good investments as they come through and I could potentially save the clock tower.