• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    “The Lotto numbers for 2026-09-12 are 16 20 25 33 39 45, Superzahl 0.”

    Sounds materialistic, but I haven’t found a solution for any of the issues I had 5 years ago, I didn’t make any major wrong decisions since then, and stuff like “buy RAM and GPUs” is irrelevant after winning millions of eurobucks.

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      I had a similar thought, but I would send, “The winning Powerball numbers for November 5, 2022 will be 28 45 53 56 69, with a power ball of 20.”

      Since the Nov. 7, 2022 jackpot was $2.04 billion dollars, I would just send the winning numbers for the previous drawing that no one won. No reason to go small when I could take a huge jackpot with nearly a billion dollar lump sum payout.

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      Plot twist, your past self receives the sentence verbally and they have nothing to write it down to.

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        …receives message whilst scuba diving…spits out regulator in frustration…drowns. Never gets to send message from the future so doesn’t drown.

        Timeline broken, existence ends except for an endless five-year loop.

        Woops!

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        The sequence of the numbers is not important and it’s not all or nothing (5 correct numbers would still net a decent amount of money), so there’s a chance that I’d recall enough to make use of it anyway. But it’s a good point, this kind of thing hinges on the specifics of how the sentence is transmitted much more than something like “take out fire insurance” or “don’t trust X”.

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      If we had more time, then you could have sent back the lotto numbers from 5 years ago