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[-] DeadMartyr@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 minutes ago

Get a little area where I would actually want to live.

Carve out mountains to channel water to more areas, basically accelerate what Egypt is doing to spread the green lush from the Nile River.

Make ideal spots for some cities, get a lot of gold out of the ground to prepare to buy the land

Pour all the foundations of the buildings, build lines of rails for public transit and trains. Make sewer system and areas to transport water

Just make it super easier for people to come and build/live there, and if I own it all I can avoid big corporations coming and pushing out growing businesses

[-] ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 hours ago

Destroy every factory making glue traps, every fur farm, Palantir, NGO group and the like and maybe tunneling through K Street in DC at high speed

[-] djsoren19 3 points 2 hours ago

Making the mother of all power vacuums Jack, can't fret over each billionaire!

[-] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 hours ago

Bring my family to safety, destroy every US or proxy owned oilfield, report to marshal kim jong un for further instructions

[-] dangling_cat 2 points 4 hours ago

Probably do some miracles on national tv and populated areas, then create a new book club. Create sanctuaries for book study groups. Assign leaders across the world from those who protect the people.

This time the book is written using formal logic so it’s impossible to misunderstand and pick and choose what you want to follow. It only provides a logic framework of being kind and empathetic to others, respecting their rights(and what rights are), and consent, etc. This time the book will be timeless with no contradictions.

Then kindly “convince” a couple of billionaires and world leaders to donate 99.9% of their wealth to the new cause. 48 hours are too short to change the world for good. But you can kickstart a brilliant process towards a great future.

[-] Geodad@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

I would grab Ceres and ram it into the Earth.

[-] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 hours ago

Step 1 - Immediately relocate all Israelis to their country of origin (within prisons) and bring Palestinians back to their land.

Step 2 - Remove the infrastructure maintaining the puppet occupation of Korea.

Step 3 - Remove all weapons from the US/EU and deliver them to communist governments and natives.

Step 4 - Do the same with industrial/technological capacity.

Step 5 - Translate/Copy theory and deliver it to everyone on earth.

Step 6 - Build a bunch of Renewable Energy plants all over the world.

Step 7 - Destroy the Oil industry.

Step 8 - Nap in the sun but lose track of time and lose my powers so I disintegrate.

[-] dwindling7373@feddit.it 8 points 8 hours ago

Probably I don't notice the whole time and go along with my standard routine.

[-] hbar@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 hours ago

I would create my own Groundhog Day set up. Start learning task A. After 47 hours, fly around the earth to rewind time. Learn for another 47 hours. Repeat process. Learn infinity tasks and become a master at everything. On the last loop win the heart of Andie MacDowell.

[-] Quicky@piefed.social 2 points 1 hour ago

The fuck you would. Not much is stopping you from doing that now, just in a longer timeframe.

You'd be sat here with me and everyone else scrolling your phone for hours, before thinking "Oh yeah I was gonna do that thing...can't be arsed now".

[-] zod000@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 hours ago

I can't conceive of a better answer than this.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 hours ago

Damn, you win.

[-] Amaterasu@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

I'd sleep the two days, nobody would mess with me.

[-] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 9 hours ago

Enact land reform and nationalisation of resources in countries that want it.
Help with infra development.

If super intellect is available, then fusion, vaccines and similar stuff. Also setting up some cheap manufacturing of medicines.

[-] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 hours ago

Lemmy has some good ideas.

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 18 points 13 hours ago

Possibly a world tour of grabbing billionaires and far right politicians, Bibi, Putin, Trump, Le Pen, Musk, Murdoch and all the likes, showing them the messes and human suffering they helped creating and hurling them into space or something.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 7 points 9 hours ago

That's a pretty good starting list. I don't know that I'd waste time trying to show them anything; just go straight to disposal.

I, too, was thinking "murder." It solves only a sort term problem though. Within a few years, you'd just have a new batch.

The system is broken. Capitalism as we practice it is broken; our political systems are broken (some more than others). That won't be fixed by DXing a bunch of oligarchs.

[-] djsoren19 1 points 2 hours ago

Counterpoint: Superman is strong enough that he could raze the system to the ground.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 1 hour ago

He could certainly degrowth the planet. But, than, we're well on the way to doing that ourselves.

[-] Yermaw@lemm.ee 4 points 8 hours ago

You'll need to make it very visible and very real to as many people as possible, and make it sound credible that "shit like this starts up again, and I'll be back, be excellent to each other or else"

[-] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 4 hours ago

Remember those found-footage style videos that were going around a decade or so ago, where there was this mysterious figure in black who just appeared and was offing criminals in fairly graphic ways? There was speculation that it was a viral ad for some anti-hero superhero movie, but it never materialized.

That's the way. Be mysterious. Be featureless. Don't talk. Give them no way to track you after it wears off: appear, do, disappear. Repeat for 48 hours, then disappear.

I still think it wouldn't last long. The temptations of power and wealth will override any fear; after year, it'll be back to business as usual. 5 years later, it'd be mostly forgotten.

Now, if you could parse out 48 hours in 2 hour chunks over 12 years, with a couple of "examples" every year at random times, that might have a lasting effect. Do it 4 years in a row, give it a break for 2 or 3 years and let people think it night be over and strike again... that would probably have a more lasting effect. But I still think, at some point after your powers run out a decade or two at most and the shenanigans would start again. Humans believe what they want to believe, and what they're best at deluding themselves and is "that can't happen to me."

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 8 points 12 hours ago

Does having superpowers fix my executive dysfunction? Cause if so then like, I dunno, clean my house, catch up on admin, do everything I've been unable to do

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 33 points 16 hours ago

There are about ~3000 billionaires. Or a billionaire every minute.

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

I mean if you have all of Superman's powers you could go one a second

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 7 hours ago

With time to spare to have a wild time with Wonder Woman.

[-] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 29 points 18 hours ago

Try to fly through these god damn rings

[-] TherapyGary 32 points 18 hours ago
[-] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 15 hours ago

not a single POW! ?

[-] kellenoffdagrid@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 15 hours ago

Some of y'all don't understand the type of shit this guy's on

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[-] hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 18 hours ago

Relocate anyone with a net worth of >$500 mil to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

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

Not sure if that's fast enough, but I would try to visit all the planets in our solar system. And then head out to see what's in the Oort cloud.

[-] Melobol@lemmy.ml 8 points 16 hours ago

Can you do the trick from the movie and turn back time?

[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

You can, but you turn back time to before you were Superman, but still moving that speed, so you just atomize.

[-] Melobol@lemmy.ml 4 points 15 hours ago

That still has a lot of possibilities :). Just rinse and repeat til you get everything right. A groundhog Day with superman powers hmmm.

[-] einlander@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago

Lots of regimes will fall.

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[-] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 10 points 17 hours ago

Couple of these here 50 states gotta go. I'm annexing them on behalf of Rhode Island. Try to fuckin stop me. Wait does anybody know my powers only work for 48 hours? Cuz otherwise I think I can bluff

[-] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 9 hours ago

Naw, giant lava trenches sound like a good idea.

[-] rouxdoo@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago

DC...Trump to the moon to fix - Trump.

Stratosphere - blow all the CO2 out into space and fix global warming.

Schwarma after with friends.

Oh yeah, grab the great plastic pollution bomb in the pacific and hurl it into the sun then use fry-eyes to burn every plastic manufacturer on the planet.

[-] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

Every politician - Hmm, it turns out our path hasn't been dangerous at all! Let's do the same things but in overdrive!!

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 9 points 18 hours ago

That's actually a great subject for an XKCD What If - What if all of the CO2 was suddenly removed from the atmosphere, all at once?

[-] Geodad@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

The planet would enter a permanent snowball earth phase.

[-] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 17 hours ago

Probably not good either. We kind of need the O2 in it and the C probably too. Just in other forms.

[-] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago

Oh! This one jar that is freakin stuck super bad.

[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Probably watch a bunch of tv shows and fall asleep, if it lands on a weekend.

[-] Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 3 points 14 hours ago

Bang Lois Lane and order some pizza afterwards, obviously.

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