[autarch]

Time travel is extremely dangerous right now. I highly recommend deferring time travel plans except for extreme temporal emergencies.

[fuzztester]

Same for database transaction roll back and roll forward actions.

And most enterprises, including banks, use databases.

So by bad luck, you may get a couple of transactions reversed in order of time, such as a $20 debit incorrectly happening before a $10 credit, when your bank balance was only $10 prior to both those transactions. So your balance temporarily goes negative.

Now imagine if all those amounts were ten thousand times higher ...

[ill13]

To clear, most banks "sort" transactions from to high to low to create more NSF fees on purpose.

That purpose equates to over $12 billion in fees for 2024

https://finhealthnetwork.org/research/overdraft-nsf-fees-big...

[verzali]

Uhh, here's the problem, I'm sort of stuck travelling into the future at a more or less constant rate. I don't know how to stop doing that...

[pbhjpbhj]

Unless you can stop, I'm afraid this will cause almost certain death.

[layer8]

I regret to inform you that as a consequence of that sustained time travel, your mind and body will be slowly deteriorating and you’ll sooner or later end up dead.

[lxgr]

Have you tried asymptotically approaching the speed of light?

[autarch]

Just go to your local shop and buy some time brakes. That's the safest course of action until this is repaired.

[philistine]

Unless you want to punch a guy in the face offscreen. Then go for it.

[jeffrallen]

Would traveling to the past in order to put in place a preemptive fix for this outage be wise or dangerous?

Asking for a friend.

[ExoticPearTree]

Tell your friend that this course of action failed, as us in the present are still experiencing issues.

[__MatrixMan__]

I couldn't comment on the causal hazards but since time is currently having an outage they've got an improved shot at getting away with it. I say go for it.

[9dev]

Very unproblematic. Your travelling back will land you in a freshly branched universe with no way back to the one you came from, so no worries there.

[JadeNB]

Safety not guaranteed.

[yawpitch]

Define “extreme”?