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  • You can fly but you can never stop flying
  • You can turn invisible, but never be seen again
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    17 hours ago

    Everyone within my earshot has to tell the truth.

    Works with TV, radio. Any real time communication.

    I think this should also work on myself

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      I would use this power to make a communist organization of my choice completely immune to infiltration

      Imagine an America without COINTELPRO

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    God of Toilet Paper.

    You might laugh, but I would own the world.

    If you were in my favor, you would get the softest, never-chafing, cleanest single-wipe-clean TP ever. No matter what you ate, no matter how spicy, no matter how ill, you could be assured of pain-free, cooling, soothing, wipes. It would be beautiful. Rainbows and peace, no matter how violent the shit

    Piss me off? Anything you choose to clean your backside with is then designated TP. I will clog all the toilets, all the plumbing, all the sewers. I can make it all gympie-gympie leaves, sandpaper, wax paper, or just vanish mid-wipe. No matter how much you wiped your already raw ass, there would still be more. I would be a scourge on the Earth, and all would have to bow down before me. You would love me. You would hate me.

    He who controls the comfort of the sphincter, controls the world.

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    The ability to shapeshift doesn’t really get affected by this caveat, so that remains about as appealing as it was before.

    Taken to an extreme, one can get a controllable/turn-off-able biological immortality and at-will violation of conservation of matter/energy.

  • 𒉀TheGuyTM3𒉁@lemmy.ml
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    I’d chose telekinesis. Heck man i’m sick of having only 2 hands and i’m lazy. I’m ready to use it everytime.

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        I mean, why else? Unless you’re surrounded by swimsuit models, most of what you’d see isn’t that pleasant. Plus everybody’s body would be smushed from their clothing, so it’d look kind of wonky.

      • 𒉀TheGuyTM3𒉁@lemmy.ml
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        The dream of engineers: they can’t get sick so no depression, they don’t need to sleep so infinite focus and learning, and half a million years would be sufficient to build a large underground automated city and preparing space travel to find solutions for their curse

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          Ah yes, I also play factorio/satisfactory/dwarf fortress/rim world. I could easily do 1000 years with each of those, but a million might be streatching it

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        Could be worse. Highly nutritious foodstuff providing plenty of vitamins, protein, and fiber. I could do a lot to alleviate some world hunger immediately. Making people fart all over the world would be fun, too.

        I could also put beans in the no-bean-chili gatekeepers chili. Evil bean god could be fun, too.

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    Never becoming deaf and always having good hearing. I’m not sure I’d be able to enjoy life anymore if I became deaf, so just having good hearing would make the rest of my life worth living, without any major side effects I could think of.

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      Reading this reminded me that my ears are ringing. I can ignore it but if anything draws attention it can get pretty bad.

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      I can live without hearing, thanks to subwoofers, but if I ever go blind I think I’m just going to kill myself.

      So permanent good vision; I pick that.

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      A couple of multi-millionaires would pay you to stop and then you’d implode.

      Still a net win for everyone else though, I support this.

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      If you don’t specify a currency or a grade of inflation, this might kill far more people than expected.

      1 billion Iranian Rial for instance is just about 23752 USD.

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      So, question: when the billionaire dies, does their wealth transfer according to local laws? So an entire lineage could instantly turn inside out, including bastard children on the fringes of inheritance, with only an estate tax to save them?

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        Counterpoint:

        Who cares?

        The traumatic shock of any one person personally possessing a billion dollars or more in wealth being Dr. Manhattan’d would eventually lead people to realize that they need to redistribute wealth.

        The potential number of potentially innocent people killed by this process is infinitesimal compared to the deaths and uneccessary harm caused by the general hoarding of wealth.

        The new, hard mandated moral norm of the planet would be that possessing over a billion dollars gets you functionally smote by god, obviously the universe has imposed a hard cap on wealth accumulation and thus it is actually bad.

        You can quibble about inflation, and I can quibble about making some more precise measure based on a formulation revolving around proportion to the median wealth of 100 miles of where the ‘billionaire’ is currently standing.

        We are talking about magical superpowers here, presumably there would be a magical way to force actual transparency of hidden assets and what not, account for non liquid investements, all that.

        A sane world that exists after this paradigm would put in place basically the reverse of overdraft protection, it would automatically stop any desposit that would make your net wealth exceed the magic number, it would automatically disperse shares of stocks or CDs or bonds or whatever to some kind of public pool or random people such that no individual ever singly has over a billion bucks or whatever the magic number is.

        If you did not create a world like that, then ‘random’ people would keep liquifying whenever their net wealth exceedes magic number.

        Every incentive would thus exist for all but the literally suicidal to carefully manage their investments and basically create something like the above mentioned system.

        … You could probably make a decent anime or show out of this idea.

        Its like a Death Note on autopilot, and if it is actually emmenating from a single person, doubtless a number of oligarchs would attempt to hide their wealth, as well as probe the system to figure out its rules, figure out who the actual person with this ‘superpower’ is, and kill them.

        This person may not even know it is them, and then they may figure it out on their own, or may be prevented from being assasinated by some other group that did figure out it is them, and wants to protect them because billionaires bad.

        Tons of dramatic person to person character dynamics, as well as larger scale social conflict plot setups here.

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        Logically since all billionaires die, their lineage would be gradually wiped out.

        Where it gets tricky is how they would manage the money. If the money is not directly controlled by them, are they billionaires? So does the CFO of a multi billion dollar company also get turned inside out?

        It would be a heck of a monkey paw without stipulations that would make the point worthless.

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          Every 12 hours, the richest person in the world turns inside out. Just one, every 12 hours. The only way to stop it is if capitalism ends and people no longer hoard wealth.