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[-] zAkk@lemmy.world 125 points 1 year ago

We are in a climate emergency that must be drastically dealt with immediately.

[-] Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I might even go so far as plant a few policies in their heads. "We are in a climate emergency, and we should address it immediately with policies such as carbon tax-and-dividend, ending subsidies for harmful industries such as fossil fuels and industrial agriculture, investing in both established and promising renewable energy sources such as solar and wind and tidal and geothermal, reducing our dependence on cars with more electrified public transport and denser urban design, and encouraging better urban land use patterns with land value taxes." One sentence = one thought, right?

Knowing humans, if we didn't use this magical power to guide them to good solutions, a good number of us would conclude, "That's it, we need to nuke China and India to save the Earth!"

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[-] calabast@lemm.ee 71 points 1 year ago

I'd go with "Hey, it's God. I actually AM real, but I'm heading out. You guys are on your own from now on, no more afterlife or anything. So be good to each other! Alright, I'm out. (oh, and just some advice? you might want to get ahead of this climate change thing)"

[-] Stuka@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a recipe to stir up religious backlash on insert group here for driving god away

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[-] MothBookkeeper@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

"MothBookkeeper is the dictator of the world, and I completely trust his decisions."

Nevermind the logistics of that; power lives where people believe it does.

Then I could make multiple beneficial changes, such as:

  • Heavily taxing the rich
  • Enacting drastic climate policy
  • Banning paper stickers that rip as you try to take them off
  • Sending Mitch McConnell on a rocket into the sun
[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

Considering our names start similar and that you going to do something about stickers that rip off, I give you my support

[-] ProperlyProperTea@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

I also choose this man's Moth

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[-] kablammy@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 year ago
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[-] gusVLZ@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 year ago
[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

Problem with that is that many people are being dicks while thinking that they are not being dicks.

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[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 year ago

Honk honk it’s the goose

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[-] AndreyAsimow@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Everyone! I am Son Goku and I need your energy to defeat Majin Buu!

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

Lol as a kid me and my sister raised our hands to the ceiling to give goku our chi in solidarity, while watching tv.

I'm pretty sure if I hear this in my head, today, as an adult, I'd do it again. No questions asked

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 10 points 1 year ago

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

[-] freamon@endlesstalk.org 26 points 1 year ago

Hear me out first.

'Gender critical' theory. Everyone should have this theory, as originally defined, planted in their head. Men would only associate 'masculinity' with their role in providing semen for procreation. Women would only associate 'femininity' with their role in providing eggs for procreation.

There would be no gender-non-conformity because there would be no ideas about gender to conform to. A minority of men would, as an everyday thing, wear dresses. It would be impossible to verify that someone was a woman or not (short of x-raying their uterus).

The important thing, is that if this happened, the people currently claiming that they're 'gender critical' would lose their freaking minds.

[-] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 1 year ago

You feel that given such an amazing opportunity, that is the single most important issue on the planet?

We're doomed.

[-] freamon@endlesstalk.org 14 points 1 year ago

You're reframing OP's question. There's no suggestion that I'm the only one with this opportunity - I'm relying on others to plant ideas about the climate or whatever, and focusing on what maybe other people haven't already said (which is a good strategy for posting on Lemmy, incidentally).

But if that's your genuine criticism, that what I posted can't be ranked as the most important thing, well there's plenty of other posts that you should be busy responding to.

[-] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Could be material for a novel.

So many relationships would fall apart, so many others would be possible were yesterday they were unthinkable.

So many people would completely lose their identity. And so many others would suddenly feel at peace.

Marketing is completely upended. What even is sexy anymore? To whom and why and how do we even know?

Clothing designers, some will thrive when suddenly it feels as if there are no rules, like you can do anything. Others lose it all together, having no idea what to do.

At the same time, people need to sort people. So I foresee a rise in racism, ageism and other discrimination to maintain largely the same in and out groups. But those first weeks of absolute mayhem that noone understands why it's suddenly mayhem would be beautiful.

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[-] MyDogLovesMe@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago

“The purpose of your life is to make others happy”

Put that in the head of all the ‘players’.

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[-] Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago
[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

The circumstances might 'prove' to a lot of people that there is

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[-] McNasty@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago

What's that? Oh shit, can they hear us? Turn it off, TURN IT OFF!

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[-] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

The irresistible urge to consume at least one billionaire. They would think that if they don’t eat a billionaire they would die. Hilarity would ensue.

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[-] zeusbottom@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

Give them all a vision of the Earth from space. Look at that, all ya sonsa bitches.

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”

— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, People magazine, 8 April 1974.

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

The Earth is dying and it can live on without us once we are dead.

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[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

"On the count of 3, jump!"

I'm just curious to see what would happen.

[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 year ago

The experience of being the victim of real violence. It's pretty clear most people don't really get it. And it's weirdly common for people to have romantic ideas about fighting, revenge, punishment, war, and even torture. I think it would be eye opening.

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[-] megsmagik@feddit.it 14 points 1 year ago

It’s not a thought but I would put empathy

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 year ago

It's a good idea to have government programs to take care of citizens without requiring any strings to get help.

[-] artic@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Reject your humanity become a catgirl nyaaa

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago
[-] Transcendant@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago
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[-] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

Seize the means of production

[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 year ago

“All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.”

[-] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago

That Pale Blue Dot speech by Carl Sagan.

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[-] djsaskdja@endlesstalk.org 9 points 1 year ago
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[-] Ejh3k@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

Is "kill yourself immediately" too dark? Probably. But if like three billion people died suddenly and without a massive environmental impact like nukes or some other poisoning of the world, could solve a bunch of problems.

[-] flippindarryl@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Okay, Thanos. Can't say the logic isn't there though.

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[-] WastedJobe@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

"Dammit I just lost The Game"

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

The signal your brain gets when you really have to take a shit, right now, or there will be dire consequences.

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[-] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Send Squirrel money." (With details, of course. Can't have them giving money to some random squirrel.)

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[-] MelastSB@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago
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[-] mawkishdave@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[-] netburnr@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Be friendly to someone today.

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

Whatcha out! He is behind you.

Billions of people turning back at the same time....

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