This. I don't want money I need it to live but time to do the things I want to do is what I actually want (and unlimited money would give me Mord time since I wouldn't need to work)
Monkey paw: you are granted unlimited food but the corporations recieve full compensation, so while world hunger drops, so does the quality of food, and new companies cannot break into the market because they are immediately bought by the conglomerates and quality drops, so nobody wants to eat
Even asking for unlimited youth is tricky for the monkey paw could just make you forever a baby.
Now that wouldn't necessarily mean you'd end up being an adult brain in a baby's body, just straight up a 1 year old that never develops, always reliant on someone else. You'd literally have 1 year before you'd be surrendered to some sort of institution as a medical oddity whilst you comprehend nothing doomed to overwhelming stimulus forever.
Best you could hope for is specifying an age in your life you consider to be what your physical peak was and just deal with the lack of mental development completion if that physical peak was before being roughly 25 years old.
No I ain't about to get surgery for it, my glasses do me just fine, but still it would at least feel like I had infinitely better vision if I had 20/20 vision..
I got surgery a while ago and am super happy with it. Though for me it was more of a "I hate having stuff on my face" kind of deal so it was a bit more urgent...
You can elect to get knocked out iirc, but it costs a lot more and I think you have to wait longer as they have to call someone in; however, they give you numbing eye drops so you don't feel it and you also don't see it because they use a vacuum to hold your eye in place which temporarily disables vision in the eye they're working on. You still feel the pressure though and it smells a bit like burning hair (at least with the laser they were using on me).
The least invasive option is to have a special kind of contact lens attached to your cornea after an acid treatment. The cornea then heals to the shape of the lens. This is the oldest type of treatment and you'll have to keep the contacts in for a few weeks I think. It's mostly used by emergency service workers and military people.
Second least is a newer surgery that uses a femtosecond laser that is able to cut away the inner parts of the cornea (the stroma) without damaging the surface (the epithelium). So the only cutting that has to be done is a small nick on the side through which the surgeon pulls out the extra cells that were mucking up your vision.
The last option is the most invasive where the epithelium is cut and folded out of the way (like a hobbit door) so the laser can burn away the excess cells. The epithelium is folded back into place and a special glue is used to keep it there. It took about a month for my eyes to heal and a year or so for them to stop being super dry.
If you do get corrective surgery find a practice that uses a femtosecond laser. It's the best option I think.
Thanks for the details; I was going AHHHHH the whole time reading that, but knowledge is good I guess. My vision is pretty bad (and I'm partially blind) but eek, not bad enough yet to consider that. Genuinely terrifying, even the middle 'just a tiny cut' option, if I have to be awake to any degree.
I totally get that. There were a lot of concerned looking people in the waiting room to haha. Just FYI it becomes more difficult for your eyes to fully heal after the surgery as they age, so most places won't operate on people older than ~35 due to the risk of complications.
Just chiming in to say I read your detailed comment here, thanks for the response, so you don't have to copy/paste/parrot the same response to my lengthy comment I left you..
I'm glad your surgery worked out for you, that's awesome 👍
May I ask, similar to the other commenter, like what type of surgery did you have and how's the anesthesia part work out, are you conscious or fully knocked out for it? What was the recovery time like and what's the risks of something going wrong?
You can pause right here if you care to comment on my questions, beyond this point is a TL;DR of my own experiences, read further if you want..
I originally got glasses at age 8, in 1990. In the past, I have had issues with glasses not sitting comfortably on my face, but I've also come to respect glasses not only for focus, but also as eye protection.
For the past couple years though, I've been wearing stupid thick bifocals that were donated to me by an old fella, that happen to be a perfect match for my vision, but they were made around 1988, so yeah coke bottle glasses. My left lens is ~7mm thick at the thickest spot, the right lens is ~9mm thick, so yeah they're a bit heavy, but crystal clear.
What I've come to learn about such heavy glasses on my face, is that when I got them as a donation made in 1988, is that initially they gave me headaches. Not from the lenses though, but from the earpieces, they needed to be bent to match my skull shape over and behind my ears. They also needed new earpiece tips as well, the originals were totally dryrotted and crumbling apart.
So, I spent like 3 hours per side, carefully bending and readjusting both earpieces very carefully, to fit properly over and behind my ears, and to conform comfortably to the shape of my skull. Then I replaced the earpiece tips with a few layers of heatshrink/Thermalfit out of my electronics kit, and covered those buffer layers with proper silicone replacement earpiece tips.
I was extremely careful to match up the ends of the earpiece tips to my skull, as that's not only where they caused headaches, but also why they kept slipping down my nose. So as I fit them to my skull and ears, I curled the earpiece tips in much further than you usually see glasses generically made. I adjusted these things to fit me perfectly, no more headaches, no more nose slippage, and crystal clear vision.
Somehow they survive me working on vehicles and such, and still don't have a single friggin scratch! I guess they just made stuff to actually last back in 1988, they just needed basically minor maintenance and major skull/ear fitting. It's not about style for me anymore, it's about what just works.
If you've made it this far, I'm always glad to share stories of people's journeys towards better vision and learn along the way...
That's awesome that you got some retro glasses that just happened to be your prescription. Fantastic lol. Part of the reason I got surgery was somewhat the same as the issue with your glasses, just there wasn't anything I could've done to fix it. If it's on my face, I don't like it. Also I could see all the smudges and tiny hairs on my glasses at any one time, which annoyed the heck out of me.
I still wear 'sun glasses' when I go outside though. I was given a new pair of safety glasses when I was setting up a stage for IATSE a long time ago, they're clear but still protect from UV, so I use those whenever I go out. I get some weird looks sometimes, but yeah, it's not about the fashion, it's about health.
Thanks for your second comment too haha.
I didn't answer about the risks, so I'll do so here:
Most common issue is having consistently dry eyes afterwards. If you normally have really dry eyes then you might not be able to get surgery because it disrupts the 'channels' in the epithelium that keep your eyes moist. As I said in the previous comment, it took a year for mine to get that back fully and I mine were on the edge of not being able to get it done (they look at the thickness of the epithelium beforehand).
Another issue is rubbing your eyes too hard and the flap opens up again... D: It's happened a lot before because the dryness after the surgery makes your eyes really itchy sometimes, especially if you've put in too many eye drops.
Recovery time is really dependent on age too, I was ~30 when I get it done, and they cap it out at 35 or so because after that it might not heal correctly.
Influence. I want to be able to convince everybody with power around the world to actively support a transition away from a system that's based on hierarchy and coercion to a decentralized and cooperative one.
But wealth is power, and power does not corrupt so much as it attracts the corruptible. You would need to work with all manner of sociopaths and malignant narcissists. And these are people who have the least justification for existing in a polite society.
Plus, they would also continue to be parasites on civilization, and continue to pathologically hoard more wealth than they could possibly spend in a million lifetimes.
Honestly, a guillotine is a lot simpler and a lot faster. Take out the top 0.01% of civilization, and the remaining members of the Parasite Class will not fight when you implement 99% top-tier tax rates, close all of the high-wealth loopholes, and build proper social frameworks that benefit everyone.
And this starts with the political system, with a high-tech direct-participation democracy which eliminates all politicians in favour of letting everyone vote on all issues. This requires a foundation with a population that is well educated in critical thinking and bullshit detection (which would destroy all conservatism in the first place), and an economic system (even modified capitalism) that meets everyone’s needs so everyone would have the headspace to deal with societal questions without being forced to always focus on economic survival. Without this political framework, socialism/communism of any form would continue to be corrupted and co-opted by strongmen and tyrants.
Because when you look at any attempt to implement communism in the past, it never survived beyond a few months to maybe a year or so. Sure, Russia had its revolution in 1917, but by 1918 Russian communism was effectively dead; taken over by an authoritarian kleptocracy no different than a feudal system.
In my experience there are people who defend both China and "DPRK" as a communist paragon with reasoning that is although extensive dodges any real criticism of China (from either an external standpoint, or from within a communist pov).
It was my impression that such "tankies" are the primary base of communists (or common enough for it to be a problem), which pushed me away from it.
Real communism has a massive flaw in that it is too idealistic and fails to account for human corruption and the pursuit of power. Especially since communism is all about equalizing power among the people. Which is also how it has always been co-opted and destroyed from within shortly after it has been implemented.
This is why I fight against calling any current country “communist”, because those countries so severely violate everything that makes a state communist. These are authoritarian kleptocracies, nothing more. They use “communism” as a thin veneer of legitimacy over a fetid, rotting carcass of dictatorship that violently oppresses the people.
Unlimited waking hours. Imagine not feeling tired, no need for coffee or naps. I do like my naps but it's because of that afternoon drowsy feeling. Imagine that's gone!
Why?? This is my answer as well. There's just not enough time in the day to do all the things I want to do. There are so many things I haven't even bothered trying because I know I don't have the time to learn it well enough for it to be worthwhile.
I know my car repairs are DIYable but I don't have the prerequisite knowledge so it will take me too long to be cost effective. If I didn't have to sleep, I've got an extra 8 hours a day to learn.
Yeah that's my answer. Life is just so empty when no one loves you and you have no one to love. I'm incredibly grateful that I have a decent job and a roof over my head and food in my fridge and my life is better than it was a few years ago but except for my 2 amazing cats I have absolutely no one to love or love me and that hurts. I just want a hug and someone to tell me about their day while we eat dinner.
Well sort of. Is it really yours if you can't be secure in your person or belongings? Being homeless wouldn't be so bad if you had a magically powered hiding space that can be accessed from anywhere that no one else can get to if you don't want them to.
Health, I would like health until I die (I suppose that's a limit in a way but I wouldn't want it to keep me alive forever. Just unlimited health for a lifetime)
Money would be the most useful I think. It would be so nice to never worry about it.
I also disagree that everything valuable can be bought. And also, not everything of value has unlimited time to be reached
For example, maybe you value the natural world in ways that climate change and other human factors are threatening to destroy. Sure with enough time you could get infinite money or influence or whatever to solve the problem, but by then it will be far too late.
With infinite time, you'll survive past the climate change issues, or perhaps even manage to elevate yourself to the level of supreme ruler with unlimited wealth and have the other billionaires heads on pikes.
I think you're REALLY underselling unlimited time.
Yes I get that, but again, this is very focused on YOU. What about your friends and family who will suffer from the reduced value of the world. What about the general population?
With unlimited time you could theoretically make a perfect world for yourself, one day. But it does nothing for things that are valuable now.
Don't get me wrong, unlimited time would be an incredible power, I'm just against the idea that there is nothing of value besides things you could also achieve with unlimited time.
Yes I get that, but again, this is very focused on YOU. What about your friends and family who will suffer from the reduced value of the world. What about the general population?
I don't comprehend how that is focused on me. Anyone save someone with cognitive impairment with unlimited time would progress. They could put $25 in a bank account and check back in 200 years.
who will suffer from the reduced value of the world.
I don't understand your take on this either. Time creates whatever value is needed. The rest of the world will continue on as it does now, the scope of whomsoever value was extended would extend exponentially. just because one person is granted unlimited time doesn't take anything away from anyone else, they just become capable of more production throughout their timeline.
With unlimited time you could theoretically make a perfect world for yourself, one day. But it does nothing for things that are valuable now.
That's the whole point of this exercise, by choosing unlimited time, now is no different. 100 years would be slightly changed. Think bloodless vampire, not Methuselah
I’m just against the idea that there is nothing of value besides things you could also achieve with unlimited time.
Again it's not that everything else is null, it's that the power created to the unlimited timeline makes all the other value inconsequential.
I don't mean focused on you as a specific individual, I mean it only benefits the one picking unlimited time, it does nothing for the rest of the world (which I argue contains lots of value) right now.
Let me give a specific example. Let's say someone's loved one is sick with cancer. By choosing "unlimited money" or maybe "unlimited medical knowledge" or "unlimited influence", they could probably cure the cancer, or at least greatly extend their loved ones lifetime. If they choose unlimited time, then they could not. So are you saying the value of that love one's life is inconsequential?
Or another, maybe you value human lives, and therefore it would be valuable for all wars to end. By picking "unlimited negotiation skill" or something else, you would be able to almost immediately end any war, and perhaps solve war in general. With infinite time, maybe in the far far future you could achieve this, but what about all the lives lost until then? Are they all inconsequential?
I don’t mind dying. Death is what makes life have meaning. Let me live long enough and at some point I would be eager to wrap up my concerns and shuffle off this mortal coil.
But I would prefer to die on my own terms, at a time of my own choosing, and in the meantime exist with all the physical and mental vigour of someone between the ages of 25 and 45.
And the key is not being immortal, as I would not want to always survive grievous injuries. I would want to be mortal on purpose -- if an accident would kill a normal human despite immediate medical attention of the highest modern quality, I would want to die just the same. I would not want to continue existing as bloody paste paining the interior hull of an airliner that smacked into a mountain.
But barring accidents, I would love to loiter and observe the next few centuries in great health and youthful vigour. Doing what, I don’t know. That’s for the future to determine. But it would be interesting.
Handkerchiefs tied together. The magic show starts off boring but when the amount of handkerchief on the floor vastly outweighs the person pulling them out of their pocket, that's when the magic starts. Also taking applications for a magician who can do something with a huge pile of handkerchiefs. Or someone who can make clothes out of handkerchiefs.
You know what, i have heard of it but my goofy ass was only lookong st it on YouTube, so thanks for that link. Forsr thing that showed up was "How to CAD anything" which is sometjing I actually need
oatly original. it's my one ride or die grocery item. I can go a week without it during pumpkin spice latte season, but otherwise I am NOT happy with anything else in my coffee.
Not in the spirit of the question answer: Land
Base impulses on an Easter weekend: sweet dill mustard gravlachs and bread
Real answer: Bicycles as many different ones as possible
no more RSI related stuff that prevents me from holding a book before bed. no more falling behind because my cardio sucks because I'm too lazy to work on it more
Time, assuming I could choose when to stop.
Good point. Not being able to die indefinitely sounds like torture after a while.
This. I don't want money I need it to live but time to do the things I want to do is what I actually want (and unlimited money would give me Mord time since I wouldn't need to work)
If I could stay a certain age, say in the mid 30s, then I'd be all for it.
food. I'd give it out for free in an effort to destroy the corporate slime that is currently infecting this planet
Literally Jesus
Monkey paw: you are granted unlimited food but the corporations recieve full compensation, so while world hunger drops, so does the quality of food, and new companies cannot break into the market because they are immediately bought by the conglomerates and quality drops, so nobody wants to eat
stop it, you're ruining it
Ooh, that's a really good monkey's paw answer.
That's actually not too bad.... I'd imagine at some point the currency would crash, no?
I will give you 8 hours of my labor for 3 McDollars.
Some exclusions apply, not valid in all locations, visit mcdollar.gov for full terms and conditions.
The combined energy of five separate universes courses through your body and you explode.
Time, to do nothing productive.
The best kind of time
Hugs
Unsurmountable quantity of hugs
All I see is repetitions of
🫂
I might delete because it's a bit much. Sorry :3
This is the post on desktop:
Ooohhhh you don't have the emoji symbol for hugs installed, or your browser doesn't know it.
Chromium is apparently missing something
all the cool kids are using firefox these days
OH! I see it on mobile! I'll have to screenshot this when I get back to my desktop.
🫂
You choose to go in for a hug,
But unbeknownst to you, you've been stabbed in the back...
with a hug.
My mom would cuddle with me, then as we're doing that... be like "Why are you such a disappointment?"
😭
EMOTIONAL DAMAGE
Time
Youth. Just saying time is basically asking for some monkey's paw shit.
Even asking for unlimited youth is tricky for the monkey paw could just make you forever a baby.
Now that wouldn't necessarily mean you'd end up being an adult brain in a baby's body, just straight up a 1 year old that never develops, always reliant on someone else. You'd literally have 1 year before you'd be surrendered to some sort of institution as a medical oddity whilst you comprehend nothing doomed to overwhelming stimulus forever.
Best you could hope for is specifying an age in your life you consider to be what your physical peak was and just deal with the lack of mental development completion if that physical peak was before being roughly 25 years old.
fuck yeah.
I'll give up all my other worldly possessions. just for more time.
time
Vision, ~20/500 severely nearsighted sucks.
No I ain't about to get surgery for it, my glasses do me just fine, but still it would at least feel like I had infinitely better vision if I had 20/20 vision..
I got surgery a while ago and am super happy with it. Though for me it was more of a "I hate having stuff on my face" kind of deal so it was a bit more urgent...
Do they knock you out like all the way, or are you just loopy, or...
Anything stabby, pokey or anything else involving any part of my vision is terrifying to think about.
You can elect to get knocked out iirc, but it costs a lot more and I think you have to wait longer as they have to call someone in; however, they give you numbing eye drops so you don't feel it and you also don't see it because they use a vacuum to hold your eye in place which temporarily disables vision in the eye they're working on. You still feel the pressure though and it smells a bit like burning hair (at least with the laser they were using on me).
The least invasive option is to have a special kind of contact lens attached to your cornea after an acid treatment. The cornea then heals to the shape of the lens. This is the oldest type of treatment and you'll have to keep the contacts in for a few weeks I think. It's mostly used by emergency service workers and military people.
Second least is a newer surgery that uses a femtosecond laser that is able to cut away the inner parts of the cornea (the stroma) without damaging the surface (the epithelium). So the only cutting that has to be done is a small nick on the side through which the surgeon pulls out the extra cells that were mucking up your vision.
The last option is the most invasive where the epithelium is cut and folded out of the way (like a hobbit door) so the laser can burn away the excess cells. The epithelium is folded back into place and a special glue is used to keep it there. It took about a month for my eyes to heal and a year or so for them to stop being super dry.
If you do get corrective surgery find a practice that uses a femtosecond laser. It's the best option I think.
Thanks for the details; I was going AHHHHH the whole time reading that, but knowledge is good I guess. My vision is pretty bad (and I'm partially blind) but eek, not bad enough yet to consider that. Genuinely terrifying, even the middle 'just a tiny cut' option, if I have to be awake to any degree.
I totally get that. There were a lot of concerned looking people in the waiting room to haha. Just FYI it becomes more difficult for your eyes to fully heal after the surgery as they age, so most places won't operate on people older than ~35 due to the risk of complications.
Just chiming in to say I read your detailed comment here, thanks for the response, so you don't have to copy/paste/parrot the same response to my lengthy comment I left you..
I'm glad your surgery worked out for you, that's awesome 👍
May I ask, similar to the other commenter, like what type of surgery did you have and how's the anesthesia part work out, are you conscious or fully knocked out for it? What was the recovery time like and what's the risks of something going wrong?
You can pause right here if you care to comment on my questions, beyond this point is a TL;DR of my own experiences, read further if you want..
I originally got glasses at age 8, in 1990. In the past, I have had issues with glasses not sitting comfortably on my face, but I've also come to respect glasses not only for focus, but also as eye protection.
For the past couple years though, I've been wearing stupid thick bifocals that were donated to me by an old fella, that happen to be a perfect match for my vision, but they were made around 1988, so yeah coke bottle glasses. My left lens is ~7mm thick at the thickest spot, the right lens is ~9mm thick, so yeah they're a bit heavy, but crystal clear.
What I've come to learn about such heavy glasses on my face, is that when I got them as a donation made in 1988, is that initially they gave me headaches. Not from the lenses though, but from the earpieces, they needed to be bent to match my skull shape over and behind my ears. They also needed new earpiece tips as well, the originals were totally dryrotted and crumbling apart.
So, I spent like 3 hours per side, carefully bending and readjusting both earpieces very carefully, to fit properly over and behind my ears, and to conform comfortably to the shape of my skull. Then I replaced the earpiece tips with a few layers of heatshrink/Thermalfit out of my electronics kit, and covered those buffer layers with proper silicone replacement earpiece tips.
I was extremely careful to match up the ends of the earpiece tips to my skull, as that's not only where they caused headaches, but also why they kept slipping down my nose. So as I fit them to my skull and ears, I curled the earpiece tips in much further than you usually see glasses generically made. I adjusted these things to fit me perfectly, no more headaches, no more nose slippage, and crystal clear vision.
Somehow they survive me working on vehicles and such, and still don't have a single friggin scratch! I guess they just made stuff to actually last back in 1988, they just needed basically minor maintenance and major skull/ear fitting. It's not about style for me anymore, it's about what just works.
If you've made it this far, I'm always glad to share stories of people's journeys towards better vision and learn along the way...
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk
That's awesome that you got some retro glasses that just happened to be your prescription. Fantastic lol. Part of the reason I got surgery was somewhat the same as the issue with your glasses, just there wasn't anything I could've done to fix it. If it's on my face, I don't like it. Also I could see all the smudges and tiny hairs on my glasses at any one time, which annoyed the heck out of me.
I still wear 'sun glasses' when I go outside though. I was given a new pair of safety glasses when I was setting up a stage for IATSE a long time ago, they're clear but still protect from UV, so I use those whenever I go out. I get some weird looks sometimes, but yeah, it's not about the fashion, it's about health.
Thanks for your second comment too haha.
I didn't answer about the risks, so I'll do so here:
Most common issue is having consistently dry eyes afterwards. If you normally have really dry eyes then you might not be able to get surgery because it disrupts the 'channels' in the epithelium that keep your eyes moist. As I said in the previous comment, it took a year for mine to get that back fully and I mine were on the edge of not being able to get it done (they look at the thickness of the epithelium beforehand).
Another issue is rubbing your eyes too hard and the flap opens up again... D: It's happened a lot before because the dryness after the surgery makes your eyes really itchy sometimes, especially if you've put in too many eye drops.
Recovery time is really dependent on age too, I was ~30 when I get it done, and they cap it out at 35 or so because after that it might not heal correctly.
i have somewhat passing vision , no glasses. but my other senses became stronger though.
Influence. I want to be able to convince everybody with power around the world to actively support a transition away from a system that's based on hierarchy and coercion to a decentralized and cooperative one.
I could get behind that.
But wealth is power, and power does not corrupt so much as it attracts the corruptible. You would need to work with all manner of sociopaths and malignant narcissists. And these are people who have the least justification for existing in a polite society.
Plus, they would also continue to be parasites on civilization, and continue to pathologically hoard more wealth than they could possibly spend in a million lifetimes.
Honestly, a guillotine is a lot simpler and a lot faster. Take out the top 0.01% of civilization, and the remaining members of the Parasite Class will not fight when you implement 99% top-tier tax rates, close all of the high-wealth loopholes, and build proper social frameworks that benefit everyone.
And this starts with the political system, with a high-tech direct-participation democracy which eliminates all politicians in favour of letting everyone vote on all issues. This requires a foundation with a population that is well educated in critical thinking and bullshit detection (which would destroy all conservatism in the first place), and an economic system (even modified capitalism) that meets everyone’s needs so everyone would have the headspace to deal with societal questions without being forced to always focus on economic survival. Without this political framework, socialism/communism of any form would continue to be corrupted and co-opted by strongmen and tyrants.
Because when you look at any attempt to implement communism in the past, it never survived beyond a few months to maybe a year or so. Sure, Russia had its revolution in 1917, but by 1918 Russian communism was effectively dead; taken over by an authoritarian kleptocracy no different than a feudal system.
We're talking anarchism, not communism
Communism can very much be decentralized, and in fact a correct implementation tends to be exactly that.
Because that’s where “communism” the term comes from - community, communal, etc..
In practice, it isn't, usually. None of the communist states extant today or historically had a decentralized system without hierarchies.
Which is why these were never communist states, any more than North Korea is democratic, or the old East Germany was a republic.
Just because these states wore the word “communism” like a thin veneer of legitimacy, does not a communist state make.
Well I'm glad you can say that.
In my experience there are people who defend both China and "DPRK" as a communist paragon with reasoning that is although extensive dodges any real criticism of China (from either an external standpoint, or from within a communist pov).
It was my impression that such "tankies" are the primary base of communists (or common enough for it to be a problem), which pushed me away from it.
Real communism has a massive flaw in that it is too idealistic and fails to account for human corruption and the pursuit of power. Especially since communism is all about equalizing power among the people. Which is also how it has always been co-opted and destroyed from within shortly after it has been implemented.
This is why I fight against calling any current country “communist”, because those countries so severely violate everything that makes a state communist. These are authoritarian kleptocracies, nothing more. They use “communism” as a thin veneer of legitimacy over a fetid, rotting carcass of dictatorship that violently oppresses the people.
Unlimited waking hours. Imagine not feeling tired, no need for coffee or naps. I do like my naps but it's because of that afternoon drowsy feeling. Imagine that's gone!
That sounds like complete and utter hell
Why?? This is my answer as well. There's just not enough time in the day to do all the things I want to do. There are so many things I haven't even bothered trying because I know I don't have the time to learn it well enough for it to be worthwhile.
I know my car repairs are DIYable but I don't have the prerequisite knowledge so it will take me too long to be cost effective. If I didn't have to sleep, I've got an extra 8 hours a day to learn.
Love
Yeah that's my answer. Life is just so empty when no one loves you and you have no one to love. I'm incredibly grateful that I have a decent job and a roof over my head and food in my fridge and my life is better than it was a few years ago but except for my 2 amazing cats I have absolutely no one to love or love me and that hurts. I just want a hug and someone to tell me about their day while we eat dinner.
Health bar
BJs
The restaurant? 🤔
No the warehouse store.
I'm from Texas, my wife is from New Jersey. We had a lot of confusing conversations when we were long-distance about shopping or eating at BJ's
nope, never heard of such restaurants. the other kinds of BJs
Granted: moms that live in the Sahara desert
Cheese, I love cheese.
Living space. Imagine being able to instantiate unlimited pocket dimension instances and invite people to live there for free, would be really cool.
"What do you mean the party can't use a bag of holding as shelter? It's got infinite space don't it?"
"Dependent on a fixed entry orifice!"
"Please don't call it an orifice."
I don't have the organizational skills for infinite space. I would never be able to find anything.
If you're homeless you have unlimited living space.
Well sort of. Is it really yours if you can't be secure in your person or belongings? Being homeless wouldn't be so bad if you had a magically powered hiding space that can be accessed from anywhere that no one else can get to if you don't want them to.
Health, I would like health until I die (I suppose that's a limit in a way but I wouldn't want it to keep me alive forever. Just unlimited health for a lifetime)
Money would be the most useful I think. It would be so nice to never worry about it.
Time is the only thing of value. Everything else is just managing that one resource.
This is a very self centred view on value. Do you not think that there are things that have value, regardless of how much time you have?
With time, you can make money.
With unlimited time, you can become an artisan in any scope you wish.
All other values are, the long way around, derived from time.
I also disagree that everything valuable can be bought. And also, not everything of value has unlimited time to be reached
For example, maybe you value the natural world in ways that climate change and other human factors are threatening to destroy. Sure with enough time you could get infinite money or influence or whatever to solve the problem, but by then it will be far too late.
With infinite time, you'll survive past the climate change issues, or perhaps even manage to elevate yourself to the level of supreme ruler with unlimited wealth and have the other billionaires heads on pikes.
I think you're REALLY underselling unlimited time.
Yes I get that, but again, this is very focused on YOU. What about your friends and family who will suffer from the reduced value of the world. What about the general population?
With unlimited time you could theoretically make a perfect world for yourself, one day. But it does nothing for things that are valuable now.
Don't get me wrong, unlimited time would be an incredible power, I'm just against the idea that there is nothing of value besides things you could also achieve with unlimited time.
I don't comprehend how that is focused on me. Anyone save someone with cognitive impairment with unlimited time would progress. They could put $25 in a bank account and check back in 200 years.
I don't understand your take on this either. Time creates whatever value is needed. The rest of the world will continue on as it does now, the scope of whomsoever value was extended would extend exponentially. just because one person is granted unlimited time doesn't take anything away from anyone else, they just become capable of more production throughout their timeline.
That's the whole point of this exercise, by choosing unlimited time, now is no different. 100 years would be slightly changed. Think bloodless vampire, not Methuselah
Again it's not that everything else is null, it's that the power created to the unlimited timeline makes all the other value inconsequential.
I don't mean focused on you as a specific individual, I mean it only benefits the one picking unlimited time, it does nothing for the rest of the world (which I argue contains lots of value) right now.
Let me give a specific example. Let's say someone's loved one is sick with cancer. By choosing "unlimited money" or maybe "unlimited medical knowledge" or "unlimited influence", they could probably cure the cancer, or at least greatly extend their loved ones lifetime. If they choose unlimited time, then they could not. So are you saying the value of that love one's life is inconsequential?
Or another, maybe you value human lives, and therefore it would be valuable for all wars to end. By picking "unlimited negotiation skill" or something else, you would be able to almost immediately end any war, and perhaps solve war in general. With infinite time, maybe in the far far future you could achieve this, but what about all the lives lost until then? Are they all inconsequential?
Unlimited free home maintenance. Cleaning, laundry, repairs, yard work, etc.
TIIIIIIIIIME
Anyone with wisdom would want that.
You can do anything with time.
Wind it back, wind it forward, generate infinite energy, change all things, fix all things (backwards time manipulation), learn how to do anything.
And the best part: no other superpower needed, no omnipotence, no omniscience.
Just your mortal hands, and time.
Eternally youthful but mortal life.
I don’t mind dying. Death is what makes life have meaning. Let me live long enough and at some point I would be eager to wrap up my concerns and shuffle off this mortal coil.
But I would prefer to die on my own terms, at a time of my own choosing, and in the meantime exist with all the physical and mental vigour of someone between the ages of 25 and 45.
And the key is not being immortal, as I would not want to always survive grievous injuries. I would want to be mortal on purpose -- if an accident would kill a normal human despite immediate medical attention of the highest modern quality, I would want to die just the same. I would not want to continue existing as bloody paste paining the interior hull of an airliner that smacked into a mountain.
But barring accidents, I would love to loiter and observe the next few centuries in great health and youthful vigour. Doing what, I don’t know. That’s for the future to determine. But it would be interesting.
V E N G E A N C E
For you or against you?
Both?
Handkerchiefs tied together. The magic show starts off boring but when the amount of handkerchief on the floor vastly outweighs the person pulling them out of their pocket, that's when the magic starts. Also taking applications for a magician who can do something with a huge pile of handkerchiefs. Or someone who can make clothes out of handkerchiefs.
The Olive Garden personnel reading the thread; "Huh. I guess nobody wants unlimited garlic bread. Nix it, boys."
Cuddles from puppies and my wife
I also want unlimited cuddles from op's wife. /s
Not without my puppies!
Potable water. Then I could grow a bunch of food for like, ever and my nuclear reactor will never overheat. Perfect.
Heavy water is what's needed here.
Time
Power, I got fuck tons of servers that are unplugged because they are so expensive to run
Free access to higher education. I like learning things. Don't actually like the full time workload though 😮💨
Also Cheesecake.
Have you seen MIT OpenCourseWare?
https://ocw.mit.edu/
You know what, i have heard of it but my goofy ass was only lookong st it on YouTube, so thanks for that link. Forsr thing that showed up was "How to CAD anything" which is sometjing I actually need
Nice :)
And then there's access to material for damn near every course MIT offers. If you're one who can flourish with independent study, the sky's the limit.
If abstract stuff is allowed then things like loving friends and happiness.
Potable water
Love.
Yesterday I saw here the post of the woman saying the face change of her husband going from :| to :) just by seeing her was the best feeling.
Imagine having this with everyone
Spacial dimensions.
All your problems look so small from 256-D space.
Healthcare
Peace...
This universe needs infinite number of cats.
That sounds like an unmitigated ecological disaster. So you know, like a typical Tuesday.
Money
Wait, fuck. Um...
Money
Himbos
Probably romantical love (from someone you would hold dear)
Lagavulin
Pizza.
Curry
I fuckin love me some curry
Fresh clean water.
Energy
Health
Health.
Why would you want an unlimited amount of bad health? /s
To unlock the ultra hardcore mode of living.
Energy. With infinite energy, I could either create the replicators from Star Trek, or screw up and make a Kugelblitz
Carbon-free energy.
Pot, water, beans, & rice
Resiliency
Southern comfort food
Monkey's paw, it's food soaked in sweetened whiskey
Absolutely nothing because having unlimited of anything never is a good thing for anyone, especially not yourself
Air?
I mean, it'd definitely have some baggage when it comes to the vacuum of space.
There is no unlimited air, there is no unlimited anything in the physical world, really...
But having said that, yeah, we need air and water in "unlimited" quantities, anything else is optional
Nuclear weapons. I'm in charge now and I'm here to right the ship.
Does that mean no one else would have nukes because if they had even one that would mean you were limited to all but that one you didn't have?
That is correct
Good health
Assuming we somehow also had the power for it that didn't end the planet?
Flops per second. Sure El Capitan is cool and all but let those numbers churn baby.
beans...
Bussy. There I said it
Cum
I could make a rancid swimming pool.
Time
oatly original. it's my one ride or die grocery item. I can go a week without it during pumpkin spice latte season, but otherwise I am NOT happy with anything else in my coffee.
Gold so I can completely devalue it.
Salsa
I'm reminded of this: https://youtube.com/shorts/uXWQ9N5vCRM
Unlimited halo rat spawns
Gold. It's not money. But I can sell it and get just about anything else in this thread.
free healthcare.
The discontinued Philadelphia Cream cheese snack bars in any flavor, but preferably strawberry.
I'm a similar vein, the Kind & Steong Kind bars. Especially the honey mustard and Korean BBQ flavors!
Fire.
Build a man a fire, keep him warm for a day.
Set a man on fire, keep him warm for the rest of his life. 😌
line of credit or maybe power or if we can include fictional things then magic or superpowers or psychic powers or such.
on demand unlimited or take infinitiy of unlimited. Because like im not sure I would want anything unlimited if I had to take delivery.
Not in the spirit of the question answer: Land Base impulses on an Easter weekend: sweet dill mustard gravlachs and bread Real answer: Bicycles as many different ones as possible
Unimaginable power! Unlimited rice pudding! Et cetera! Et cetera!
stamina, both cardio and muscle fatigue
no more RSI related stuff that prevents me from holding a book before bed. no more falling behind because my cardio sucks because I'm too lazy to work on it more
Motivation.
I wish you unlimited critical thinking to understand the question lol.