• tate@lemmy.sdf.org
    72·
    5 months ago

    Helping others to do their best, especially when it’s something they are truly passionate about.

  • Usernameblankface@lemmy.world
    55·
    5 months ago

    Generating world peace.

    The world would become a better place, and no one would be able to trace it back to me. I get to live in a warless world and still have my privacy.

        • Pissipissini Johnson 🩵! :D@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          5 months ago

          Jesus explained a special equilateral triangle shape and its internal geometries, mainly group theory. It has an identity where if you imagine rotating it by 120 degrees, there’s no change in position afterwards. He said there were 3 important things you should know and they were all equal and in a way identical; they perfectly related to each other.

            • Pissipissini Johnson 🩵! :D@sh.itjust.works
              11·
              5 months ago

              It’s the Bible codes, which you might not believe in or care about. To have an idea like that, which people still believed in and would easily spread across the world, he needed to understand about mathematical geometries. To do this, he spent most of his life studying. It was a form of logic he used to say things that were hard to disagree with.

    • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      5 months ago

      Judging from some of the prolific ones out there, cracking DRM requires you to also be absolutely batshit insane.

      • PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com
        2·
        5 months ago

        That type of hacking is mind-blowingly complicated. Literally. It’s impossible to understand it all without being batshit insane.

        • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          Definitely not wrong, when I read about it virtualizing the whole deal… I’ve worked in relatively adjacent fields before and I couldn’t even give you a satisfactory high-level explanation of how it works.

  • 1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyzEnglish
    29·
    5 months ago

    I feel like you could game this… my superpower would be making a hit album in a day. I’ll just tell them it took several weeks. Replace album with day trading, writing a comedy set, movie, engineering designs, theoretical physics…

    • Neshura@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
      11·
      5 months ago

      If anything “Using violence to fix the world” would be the better thing to be good at since it protects you from the Monkey Paw to a certain extent. Exceptions:

      • a “fixed” world being one devoid of humans
      • a “fixed” world panning out in the opposite way you imagined (everyone is equally miserable instead of happy for example)
      • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        Everyone being equally miserable could be preferable to some people being happy, since it gives everybody equal reasons to work towards improving the situation… Except, of course, the monkey paw would ensure that wouldn’t pan out

        • Neshura@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          Monkey Paw: Trump and other corrupt politicians being high up the authority chain made sure more evil politicians didn’t get authority.

          So you kill those as well. Now trust in democracy is crumbling because for some reason a lot of politicians keep mysteriously dying. “Good” politicians enact laws to protect their lives but those laws are bad as well so now you also have to off the good politicians. I hope you see where this hypothetical is going. The world is not so simple that a few well placed assassinations would fix everything, if that were the case it’d have been done before.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      23·
      5 months ago

      It doesn’t create a paradox. It just creates the same situation I’ve been thinking about for 30 years.

      If I had any musical talant, I would be “Cheesy McSneezer” and my band would be “Cheesy McSneezer and the Cheesy McSneezer 7”. It’s a death metal jazz lounge band. They create all original music, but nobody knows who Cheesy McSneezer is. You hear him on all the albums, but every time you go to the concerts, the band tells you “Sorry guys, I know you came out for a great show, but Cheesy McSneezer couldn’t be here tonight. So instead, please welcome our one night only temporary lead vocals…(Insert any random well known musician here)”

      And every show, the reason why Cheesy couldn’t make it changes, and is always completely absurd. And every album cover is like 100,000 people all coming together for a photo shoot. Somewhere in the photo, Cheesy McSneezer is always on the album art…but it’s never aparent which one he is. And the photos are taken from so far away that you really don’t have any up close visuals to cross reference the other photos with.

      So every concert, is technically a famous musician doing cover songs for a guy that nobody knows who he is, but also everybody knows who he is.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
    10·
    5 months ago

    Give me something like physics. I’m just damn curious about how clouds form, or how ants can’t be the size of elephants. Back when I took physics courses I felt like I had a better fundamental understanding of the world.

    Nowadays I’m busy going in another direction, but a cozy Wikipedia article is always fun to read from time to time.