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submitted 9 months ago by LesserAbe@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Doesn't have to be a thing you bought. Just some thing you didn't have but then once you did it expanded your scope of actions.

The first obvious example that comes to mind is a car. Plenty of drawbacks to prevalence of cars, but being able to go where I want when I want, and far away, is very transformative.

I'm interested in other examples of things that aren't just useful, but that open new possibilities.

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[-] Rosco@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Reading regurlarly, It really improved my attention time, and it definitively helps to manage my anxiety, weirdly enough.

[-] THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch 2 points 9 months ago

Lets see uh falling into a vat of acid, suffering intense radiation , getting bit by radioactive insects and a lion ?

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Learning another language, I guess? Besides learning English, being able to understand a few others even at a basic level is useful (if you ever get the chance to use it 😅).

[-] 6mementomori@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago
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[-] BuryMyHorse@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Getting proper diagnoses and treatment/medication

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

The Dark Side.

Now I have unlimited power.

[-] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

learning from mistakes. sadly took me longer than a lot of people I know, and as a result, I've seen shit get so fucked up that I finally learned my lesson a year or so ago to have some self awareness.

[-] julianh@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

A decent GPU (rx 570). Could play any game I wanted without going through desperate measures to get it to run at minimal settings, could do more with game dev and 3d modeling, etc..

These days, integrated graphics are honestly pretty decent though. Hell, I'm pretty sure the steam deck's apu is more powerful than my machine in a few ways.

[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I was bitten by a radioactive spider

[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Being touched by Super Kami Guru

[-] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago

Oh. So he calls himself GOD now.

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[-] PatFussy@lemm.ee -1 points 9 months ago

I ate a Snickers once

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee -1 points 9 months ago

AI as of late has helped a lot.

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