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[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

Guitar sounds fun

[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 4 points 5 hours ago

Speaking Korean, I live here for 4 years already and despite pushing moderatelly to learn it, I don't speak it at all. Everything I learn I forget very fast again.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 hours ago

Time travel

[-] danhab99@programming.dev 6 points 8 hours ago

If I could have something magical: I'd like to be able to accelerate my thinking so I can have as long as I want to think things through

If it's gotta be real: easier to use memory, I feel like I have no idea what's going on bc I forget shit, but it's not forgotten I just didn't remember that memory at the right time even though I had it..

Talking to people hasn't been going well lately

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 6 hours ago

Following your lead: mystical/magical healing abilities, for self and others. Mundane, photographic memory.

[-] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 2 points 7 hours ago

Ability to play the guitar like Gilmour, EVH, Page and Hendrix.

[-] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 16 points 12 hours ago

Download more RAM. My working memory is shit (ADHD).

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

You will just be more (less?) Efficient and being efficient.

[-] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 1 points 22 minutes ago

I might be a little obsessed with efficiency. Possibly due to my issues making me inefficient by nature, I tend to seek efficiency wherever I can, like some mirage in the desert of my mind.

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 10 hours ago

Whatever skills would result in what the deep mediators to control autonomic functions like heartrate and could mimic death. I don't just want the control thing though I want the whole kit that comes with it which would likely have some martial arts. figure like and ideal shaolin type of thing.

[-] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 hours ago

Medicine. If I could get an upload to make me an instant doctor, that would be amazing.

[-] sep@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago

Read and write all languages. Be it swahili, mandarin, latin, hieroglyfs, python, c++ or java. ;)

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 6 points 12 hours ago

The ability to deal with the rush and then persistence of negative feeling whenever anything bad happens, my routine is thrown off, or even I have to do something I'd rather not, because I do not cope well with any of those, and it causes me to shut down.

The usual advice is to "bury it", "hold it" or "suck it up" for some unspecified later time, but that was basically my old coping mechanism and It Does Not Work™ any more.

So I'd like the upgraded version of that. Whatever it is. Preferably a version that won't break or occasionally malfunction (we call those "Warning signs", kids) like the original one did.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 6 hours ago

The upgrade is get a good therapist, and that can be trickier, more or less depending on your place of residence. Someone who can help you gather new tools and the skills to apply them. I wish you the best.

[-] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 12 hours ago

I want to understand, intrinsically, and be able to manipulate to my liking, all the financial systems of the world.

At worst, I'd quickly become a well-paid accountant. At best, I'd become an extremely talented, untraceable, modern Robin Hood.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 6 hours ago

I've thought about that a lot. If I won a near bn or more lottery, could I stay grounded enough, after hiring a reputable financial planner, to found a Montessori school of high global academic standards or free health clinic, including pharmacy, that includes plant medicines, organic foods diets, where appropriate, and/or a smaller side project or two? Or would I be irresponsible and do an Elvis-type thing for my primary caregiver and for my child that's still in my life, rather than set them up with a trust, so they would be able to be truly financially independent, should their spouse pass before them? It's easy to think the best of ourselves until the moment of truth arrives. I'd hope I'd be financially responsible, hire the planner, give to my community in a meaningful, probably anonymous way (because of sudden best friends clamoring for Fendi bags and Lambos), and buy myself an old Volvo or Audi, dependable and unostentatious.

[-] CitricBase@lemmy.world 87 points 21 hours ago

Polyglotism. Being able to speak every language would be practically a superpower.

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 43 points 20 hours ago

This is a neat idea until you're in a situation where you remember 38 different words for a thing, just not the one in the language you need

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 27 points 20 hours ago

I only speak one language fluently and one language extremely poorly.

The number of times I’ve been able to come up with the word I want in my second language and completely blanked on it in my native language baffles my mind.

[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 7 points 14 hours ago

This is why I learned the shit out of English: If I forget a word, there's like 6 more words that are close enough to the one I forgot.

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[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 10 points 15 hours ago

The ability to make an ability uploading tool.

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[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 30 points 18 hours ago

The ability to upload any ability into my mind that I can think of and be amazing at it.

Shashahshaaa!

Runs away and throws pocket sand

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago

Found the guy that wishes for more wishes

[-] Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world 21 points 18 hours ago

How to people.

I have great ideas and am horrible at explaining them.

[-] Revonult@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago

Rizz download complete

[-] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

I moderate amount of control of my mental health

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

The ability to perform high level mathematics and computer science tasks including programming languages and logic.

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 42 points 21 hours ago

"I know how to make myself do the thing I planned to do."

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago

Is Charisma an uploadable skill? If so, I'd love to upload the entire library to displace my Charisn'tma.

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[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago

Playing the piano and other instruments like a master. Music conveys feelings we can’t convey otherwise.

[-] BearGun@ttrpg.network 4 points 13 hours ago

Playing the piano, or just singing at a professional level. Would be amazing to know, but takes years of constant practice and teaching to learn.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Seconding Piano. I'm a reasonably decent guitarist, but there aren't many everyday situations where this comes in handy unless you're a professional musicians.

However, Pianos are casually placed everywhere, intended for public use. Especially in airports for some reason. I would love to woo random people passing by by flawlessly playing Hiromi Uehara or Jordan Rudess.

[-] TIN@feddit.uk 15 points 18 hours ago

I'd love to know how to dance, I mean really properly dance for every situation, not just a generic two foot shuffle. I've seen some people who can dance properly and they looked cool as fuck.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 16 hours ago

You can dance if you want to!

[-] vomitaur@slrpnk.net 9 points 16 hours ago

we can leave your friends behind!

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 14 hours ago

'Cuz your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance

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[-] FanciestPants@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

Ability to fold a fitted sheet.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 5 hours ago

Ok, that would also be a great mundane wish for me!

[-] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 6 points 15 hours ago

being able to inspect/ appraise any item and get comprehensive details about it.

it would be great to spot antiques and famous works from garage/ lawn sales.

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[-] thezeesystem 4 points 14 hours ago

Being able to feel joy/happiness. I really don't understand or know what those things are but everyone says it's wonderful and awesome. So It would be awesome to experience it at least once.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 5 points 15 hours ago

Auto maintenance and repair

OR

household maintenance and repair; handyman stuff

[-] frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 15 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Musical ability — perfect pitch, great rhythm. I'm an okay musician after years working at it, but I'd love to be better.

[-] Nomad@infosec.pub 15 points 20 hours ago
[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 15 points 17 hours ago

"he's been going all night, he's a machine!"

"....I know healthy emotion regulation"

"...show me"

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

"Stop trying to forgive your father and forgive your father!"

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