Start planning a good sentence to send to yourself today and have it ready 5 years from now.
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2026
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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.
"The winning numbers for Friday, Sep17, 2021 are 14 17 20 27 32 EZ 3 7"
Warum lange warten?
Look at Herr "I have smart ideas when put on the spot" over here.
Plot twist, your past self receives the sentence verbally and they have nothing to write it down to.
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
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.
Winning numbers are public record. Don't make yourself wait the full five years!
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Force mom to go see a doctor.
<3 same message, friend. Same message. :(
You're trans. Divorce the alcoholic abuser and start being happy
YOU LIKE WOMEN!
Don’t let mom get that surgery. She is the glue that keeps us all together and we need more years of that.
I'm so sorry
You should just break up with her while you have the chance
CLS's stock price will increase by 3,860.57% over the next five years.
Put as much money into your index funds and don't stop until October 13th, 2026. Then convert it all to cash.
Wait what happens on October 14?
Clearly someone from five years in Semisimian's future just gave him the inside scoop.
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Bitcoin peaks at $100k
I honestly thought the same thing but I’m not entirely sure it would have mattered.
BTC 6 years ago was still 10k. Yeah, you could take out a loan for a “sure thing”, but 🤷.
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Don't move across the country with him, get a divorce, your gut instincts are right, he's been cheating on you this whole time and he's about to financially ruin you.
Some people just suck
Remember to bring your protective gear, and don't ever ride even once if you don't have it - you will suffer the consequences for years.
Or possibly: All behavioural changes (even seemingly positive ones like being more brave, assertive, active, loud and outgoing) are symptoms of something going on in your pets, so prioritise going to the vet more often when they appear - catching issues early means less damage to surrounding organs, less suffering and cheaper treatment.
Find a new job when Frank retires. Jason, his replacement, is a fuckin idiot.
You will have a lot more money, if you don’t spend it all on drugs.
Yeah but you'll have a lot less drugs if you stop spending your money on it
Just leave, he doesn’t love you.
Dump this job, it's making you miserable.
Buy Nvidia stock.
Divorce him now!
Staying in Japan is a mistake. When your company cuts the rest of the staff, GTFO to Europe.
(it will be up to a future version of me to send another message about if/how that works out).
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When you apply for van insurance make sure you siren the names of the drivers correctly!
Make shure you do administrative stuff well ahead of deadlines, then double and triple check you actually did it.
Call grandma more frequently, you have less than 3 years to chat with her :(
(I miss her)
wait to sell your biomedical stocks until may 2022.
had I waited, I would have made a cool $32 million.
Yeah well had I waited to sell my cool ~12000 bitcoin for more than like 30 cents each, I probably wouldn't be working my ass off right now
"Idk either, girl, sorry."
It's me 5 years from the future, [secret I've never told anyone should prove it] buy European defense stocks before 2022.
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Don't ever go bouldering again or you'll regret it for the rest of your life
You’ll get the job, eventually, but you have to keep trying!
That anxiety, that depression, that feeling of never fitting in, that feeling of either boredom or overwhelm... is ADHD.
Tbh, I wish I could transmit this to my past self 30 years ago.
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