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[-] Maddie@sh.itjust.works 126 points 1 year ago
[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 44 points 1 year ago

Nah, of the things pictured I'd go with money and find love the old-fashioned way.

[-] Neato@kbin.social 67 points 1 year ago

Being Superman is probably the best. Functionally immortal, perfect disguise is just 1 pair of glasses away so you can still find love, hold the world hostage for unlimited money you can move through a swiss bank.

[-] eltimablo@kbin.social 67 points 1 year ago

hold the world hostage for unlimited money you can move through a swiss bank.

Easy there, Homelander

[-] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Sure, you can find true love but but you can never have sex again. No human would be able to survive your orgasms

[-] Oograh@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

"The only way he could bang regular chicks is with a kryptonite condom, and that'd kill him" - Brodie Bruce

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Immortal

That's fun for the first million years or so but then get a little boring. Then about about a billion years when the sun starts heating up and effectively scorches and sterilized earth, you better hope humanity has found a different place to live. By the time the universe dies of heatdeath, you will have gone insane from trillions of years of lonelyness

[-] alertsleeper@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I'm sure if you are superman you can find another planet with intelligent life.

Else, maybe you can terraform some other planet and help humanity move there, you are fu**ing Superman after all

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

By the time heat death occurs you'll have lived for trillions over trillions over trillions of years (10^1500 earth years if I recall correctly), probably alone because everyone died except you. Them heat death occurs, meaning no more planets, no more stars, not even black holes will be left You'll then spend eternity in a black void with nothing.

Fun times!

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[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 year ago

Once you have a ton of money how do you separate true love from people who just want to be around you for your money? Look at the personal lives of billionaires. These are highly dysfunctional people.

[-] Hardeehar@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

True love won't solve life's problems either, lol. Dysfunctional people will dysfunction. I say money, so that you can afford therapy.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 10 points 1 year ago

I mean, I wasn't thinking billionaire level of money. But even if I was, you don't have to disclose you're a billionaire when going on a date.

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[-] De_Narm@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago

Just saying, the loving wife he just spawned in would probably gladly use her wish on whatever he wants too.

She already used it on the perfect hair-doo.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

That swoop do be swoopin.

[-] moormaan@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

True, that's a lovely reminder. Seriously everybody, stop scrolling and ponder this.

[-] Espi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

She probably also wished for true love

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[-] AngryMob@lemmy.one 50 points 1 year ago

Everyone in here talkin about love, superman, etc.

Im sitting here looking at the most bizarre take on an xwing i think I've ever seen.

[-] Albbi@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago

Gotta keep those Disney lawyers off your back.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It appears to be a Λ-wing rather than an X-wing...

[-] ultracritical@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Cause it's not. It's a knock off of the e-wing, the legends successor to the x wing that wasn't used much cause it kinda sucks. Though it might be in Ashoka now too.

[-] callyral@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago

just wish to have perfect disguises then disguise yourself as a different customer.

if it's a good wishing well it shall be fooled, as you asked for perfect disguise

[-] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Just wish for more wishes.

You’re convoluting a process that doesn’t need to be.

[-] ciko22i3@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Now she can wish for a Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus and they can both be happy

[-] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

Gonna need that wheelbarrow of money to pay for fuel though.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 22 points 1 year ago

I'd be happiest with true love over an x-wing, tbh.

[-] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 7 points 1 year ago

What if, they're one and the same??

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

R2d2's love is all you need

[-] Acters@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I find this comic weird. If the woman is his true love, then he would love her more than anything. Either the well failed at the wish or it can only make a wish that can come true at a single moment but not forever(like ending world hunger would only be solved for the moment but not in the future). Either way, I think the last panel should have the guy falling head over heels in love with her as that was the wish he had made.

[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

Have philosophers managed to put together a universal best wish?

The best thing I can think of is: true and abiding justice for all of humanity.

I'm sure there's a monkey's paw in there somewhere, but I feel like it would potentially have the best outcome for as many people as possible?

[-] fristislurper@feddit.nl 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So vague, what does "true" justice even mean? If I was an evil ~~genie~~ well, I would make you regret that wish.

[-] designatedhacker@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Wish for omnipotence. Now you can do whatever you want. Now that you have that, make yourself incrementally smarter so you can better define smart each time. Become indestructible, but not like a super strong dead piece of metal like that asshole well would've done. Then transform the human race into a spacefaring utopian, post scarcity society where your new smartass self defines what that is. Basically become a real benevolent god.

[-] Teodomo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I know that you can't really answer this perfectly since you (or any of us) don't have that omniscient smartness, but if you were tasked to do this but with your current intelligence: in what ways would you transform humanity to better reach that goal?

Funnily enough, this is the sort of stuff I half-assedly think about when I can't fall asleep (i.e. all of my life). Through the years I fine tune it or even change it completely. For some years now the current idle thought has been something like "How would you make life as fair as possible for everyone if you had unlimited power?". IIRC current thought is something like:

  • All sicknesses and illness are no more. People (and animals) can't get sick anymore. This also eliminates getting old and dying of old age (more on this below). If they so desire, people can regrow lost limbs or part of their bodies or heal lost capabilities (covers current and future losses). One's own brain can't be involuntarily destroyed, which means you can always regenerate back to full no matter what happens to you. The idea is to make people functionally immortal (brain is also immune to degradation, dementia, etc).

  • Since people don't get old and can't die, the fail safe for those that do wish to finish their own existence (I know I probably would want to eventually, be it after 70 years, 200 or a million) is that anyone can voluntarily die. I'd say it's not instant though. They must maintain a firm and constant will to die for a long period of time (maybe a year? maybe that's too long). If they have maintained a will to stop existing for that long, they do die. No one can kill other people, only each person can decide if and when to die. It's painless.

  • It is no longer necessary to eat, drink, breath, sleep, etc. This goes for all humans and animals. People can still do it of course for the pleasure of it but it's not needed.

  • People can alter their body in whatever way they want. They can change body types, including bone and muscle, can change (or add or delete) genitals, can gain or get rid of bodily functions (e.g. you can get rid of periods but still be able to be pregnant, or gain the capability to be pregnant if you already didn't have it). And yes, you can grow furry ears and whatever.

  • But at the same time, since everyone is now a shapeshifter, people now also have the ability to identify other people no matter what their appearance is. You suddenly went from being a 3 meter hulking alligator man to a little 50 cm fairy girl? I can still instantly tell you are my sibling.

  • There are different ways of conceiving a new human. It occurs whenever 1 or 2 or more humans intentionally will it. All parties must maintain a firm and constant will for it to happen for a long enough period of time (maybe 9 months). If at some point any of the parties has doubts, it will not happen. Sex isn't technically required (though it can absolutely happen for those that enjoy the tradition). The new baby will automatically share the DNA of all the parties. If the parties want the actual pregnancy to actually occur in the body of one them, they can will it so and it will be so (again, as long as everyone keeps willing it for the whole time). If no one wants to actually carry the baby in their body, the baby will simply pop into existence in the hands of one of the parties after the necessary time period passes.

  • All humans have now the same baseline strength regardless of their bodies. When a being attempts to do something to another being against their will, they instead become paralyzed for an hour. For kink enjoyers, don't worry, if deep inside you want to get roughed up for some fetish reason the paralysis will not occur, since it's not actually against your will. In general, this should mean no more rape and unwanted violence.

  • With no illnesses and functional immortality, the planet might become overpopulated eventually. Humans can now more easily go to space of course (since they no longer require breathing and all that). But since many might prefer to stay on Earth, from now on Earth (and every planet) is functionally infinite. That is to say, the planets occupy a defined mass in space, but once you set foot on the planet, it becomes a plane that infinitely expands in all directions. There will always be enough Earth for everyone as long as they are willing to travel it and explore. Same goes on for every planet. Think of them like magical tents that occupy a small space but once you are inside it contains an infinite world. So for Earth the "center" of the plane would be our current 2D world map but from then it would expand with new lands and seas. So yeah, while you are in a planet it is flat, once you leave it from your perspective it becomes a sphere again.

  • I've talked about physical illnesses, but what about mental ones? Well, the spectrum is too ample and varied and I don't feel qualified to sort out which ones are 100% harmful vs which ones are harmful some of the time vs which ones are simply neuro-atypical. So I'd say I'd give every person the ability to switch from neural state of mind to another. If you have down's syndrome and you want to keep living like that, by all means. If you want to change it, you can too. And if you want to switch on and off between those states, then that too. The only thing I'd "change" is that you always have some level of intuitive understanding that this is a possibility, that you can switch. The same goes for every personality disorder, for every mental condition, for every mental illness, for every personality feature, for every compulsion, for every trauma. You can even switch on and off for remembering certain things.

  • All these points serve to try to make it more fair for every current and new human that exists and will exist. But what about the humans that are already dead? What about the babies that died of sickness, the kids that were murdered, the victims of sex trafficking that endured a life of horror, and at the end of the day what about every single human and animal that ever lived and was shaped by an unfair world even if they in turn hurt or even killed? So... since the world's infinite and space is not a problem anymore, every single being to have ever existed is revived. The previous points apply to them too.

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[-] Uli@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago

Wishing, well...

[-] jlow@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

That's ... depresssing?

[-] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

So... We're just posting 20 year old web comics now?

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

That looks like a Federation shuttle with a Rebellion paint job.

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

"Perfect life"

There, fixed. Whatever makes your life perfect, you get it.

[-] Jerb322@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I should have gotten a falcon....

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