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[-] brap@lemmy.world 156 points 1 month ago

Easy, free gravel. Become a gravel salesman.

Would be interesting to see how it appears though. Can I get to just point to a spot and suddenly gravel? If so, charge people for the show too. Just rock up to their house, point at the driveway and boom, gravel. Easy money.

Added bonus: don’t like someone? Boom, house literally full of gravel.

Gravel.

[-] Stamets@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Just says that the gravel is free, not that you can generate it or make it appear. You've got a lifetime supply of gravel from suppliers but you still gotta move it around

[-] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 71 points 1 month ago

Still a free product. Normally gravel traders have to purchase the gravel, move it and sell it. Now you just have to move and sell it. Massive profits. Transport fees are for the customer too, so basically free as well.

[-] cattywampas@midwest.social 21 points 1 month ago

And you'd be able to undercut any competition and corner the market.

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[-] frezik 15 points 1 month ago

Built a greenhouse with a gravel foundation this summer. Doesn't matter if I have to move it. Free gravel is useful.

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[-] VerilyFemme 91 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Free gravel is so busted compared to the rest. Gravel's one of those things that you don't need often, but someone in any town on any given day will need some.

You could undercut every single other gravel business. Even if the competition lowers their prices dramatically, they can't go lower than their costs. Meanwhile, you have absolutely no costs on material. Gravel monopoly.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago

If there are no limits of scale or delivery, i think it's OP.

cut me off? I'm gonna follow you at a disance and summon 50 tons of gravel around your car.

File an HOA complaint on me? You're going to need a bobcat to find your front door.

Can i summon it anywhere without going there? You know how hard it is to get rid of gravel?

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[-] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 64 points 1 month ago

If there's no cooldown and no cost on teleport, maximum distance doesn't really make a difference

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 month ago

It does if trying to go through an 8” thick wall.

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[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Even with a cooldown or something like that, a real world 'blink' ability, even of just 7 inches, would be utterly devastating in hand to hand combat, as well as potentially in ranged/armed combat as well.

Just imagine scenes from John Wick but also, every 30 minutes, he can just 'blink' up to 7 inches to dodge or connect a punch, kick, grab, close range shot, move just a bit further into cover, closer to a magazine needed to reload, etc.

Granted, you would also have to be very careful to not uh, Philadelphia Experiment / phase shift into a fucking wall or some other person or something.

A 7 inch 'blink' takes Keanu Reeves a step from John Wick... toward Neo, this would be completely 'broken' in the hands of a skilled and trained fighter, even if they can only use it once a day, as a kind of 'ultimate' or w/e.

Like uh, try hand to hand fighting someone in Cyberpunk 77, with yourself set up as close to a plain jane human as possible... up against a melee fighter with sandevistan.

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[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago

Seeing inside empty containers is way more useful than it seems.

[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 month ago

My thought exactly. You know immediately if it's empty

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[-] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 month ago

3 is overpowered, it's basically FTL if the reload time is low

[-] lengau@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago

I'm playing a Pathfinder game where my character has something roughly resembling this ability, and so far it has allowed my party to essentially skip a few fights.

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[-] recently_Coco 34 points 1 month ago

I could do so much with free gravel, you have no idea.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

If you have even the most-basic business sense, this instantly turns you into an uber-wealthy gravel tycoon.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

I am pretty sure you can sell gravel soooo

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[-] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

Free Gravel?

This one is clearly the best choice. That shit is expensive!

Start a gravel business, destroy the competition, and create a gravel empire.

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[-] moopet@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 month ago

ANY toaster. If you go to a wedding or any formal event with drinks, you can control whoever's giving the toast. That could be pretty powerful.

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[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 30 points 1 month ago

7 inch teleport sounds genuinely useful in a fight. Also, couldn't you just keep teleporting 7 inches? It might still be faster and easier than running.

On the other hand, infinite gravel...

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[-] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

The teleport 7 inches thing might be nice for getting through locked doors

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[-] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 month ago

You guys are sleeping on 1.

The secrets of the oysters could be yours.

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 12 points 1 month ago

Yes, but I love oysters.

Hearing them scream as I scarf a dozen of them? Not opposed, but seems like that's going to ruin the meal.

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[-] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago

Okay, I'll bite this time.

  1. Don't see any use.
  2. Sell gravel. Become rich.
  3. If no cooldown you can spam and teleport anywhere as long as there's a path between A and B
  4. Not sure.
  5. Turning on every toaster in the world at the same time would probably cripple the various power grids globally.
  6. If it stacks you could look quite young.
  7. Could probably make some money checking if safes are empty or not. Doesn't say anything about distance. Could remotely check containers for people. Depends as well on the definition of empty.
  8. Would be hugely beneficial to some archeologists.
  9. For anyone who is unable to walk currently this would be good. What happens if you cut your legs off? Can you fly afterwards?
[-] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  1. Don't see any use.

  1. ~~Not sure~~ Might be useful, but who nose.

FTFY

  1. ...Depends as well on the definition of empty.

"Yep, another container that does not contain a perfect vacuum. Should have taken the free gravel pill..."

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[-] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Free gravel! Fuck yeah!

Living in the rural area and having pretty long private road i would be really happy for free gravel.

Bonus points if i can desite how coarce it is. During winter the yard gets really icy and small gravel would make it better.

[-] hungryphrog 22 points 1 month ago

Free gravel, then sell it. Just make sure to not summon too much gravel so the price doesn't go down.

[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I want to say free gravel, but I need to know how its manifested. In a big pile where I want it? Or like never ending handfuls of pocket gravel?

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

"With a heavy heart, this broadcast regrets to inform our audience that President Donald Trump has been crushed by a spontaneous pile of gravel. Investigators are still looking into the source."

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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Free gravel for life could be a game changer.

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[-] Tetragrade@leminal.space 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  1. It still allows you to determine whether containers are empty, which is situationally useful.
[-] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It could actually be insanely overpowered depending on interpretation.

"Instantly see inside any empty container"

What does it mean to "see" inside a container? If that just means "know what the contents are" (i.e nothing) then it's limited, but if it means literally see with remote sight, that's much more useful - depending on this next part...

What does "inside" mean? Does it mean we can only observe the interior, or can we look out from the interior as if our point of view occupies it?

And finally, what constitutes an "empty container"? Is a container still a container if it doesn't have a lid? Or do its sides need to be opaque? By most interpretations, a glass with no liquid would easily fit the definition of an empty container...

At its most favourable then, this power gives you the ability to remote surveil any location where a common, everyday empty glass could be found. Very powerful indeed.

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[-] orenj@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 month ago

Can run as fast as albert einstein, but don't actually take the pill. Use it only when you or a loved one is immobilized by old age or injury. Nothing to lose, even if its a bogus '0mph, he's dead' pill.

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[-] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago

I would be the Gravel King. You need gravel, you come to me. I would be a benevolent king though. I would grant gravel to those that need it.

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[-] bampop@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Are we talking about Albert Einstein in his prime, or Albert Einstein now?

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[-] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago

I feel like everyone is underestimating 5. It's any toaster. Make a killer robot that happens to have the ability to make toast and you've got a remote control death bot.

I'd make a whole set of devices that happen to also be toasters. Why not add some heating elements and springs to an elevator, a car, a plane?

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[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago
  1. Sheer horror. You'll never be able to eat these again.
  2. This has been brought up before. Gravel isn't cheap. This is basically infinite money.
  3. If used continuously, you're basically The Flash.
  4. Just a bad idea unless you can put it inside your existing nose for double the sniff-sensitivity.
  5. Okay, that's just fun.
  6. Again, used continuously, this is the fountain of youth. You'll still die of old age though.
  7. Only useful under very specific circumstances. Also, define a "container".
  8. Unless the Khitan civilization knew things we don't, this isn't useful at all.
  9. Fast as he is now or when he was alive?
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[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago
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[-] Technotica@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Free gravel sounds great, but nowhere is the amount specified, if you get a handful of gravel every day for life that's not helpful.

Teleport 7 inches sounds good, if the effect of the pill isn't a one time thing. Do you only teleport 7 inches when digesting the pill? Do you keep teleporting? Can you stop teleporting? ;)

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[-] Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

Toss up between 3 and 7 for me, though the gravel one could have some niche uses.

TP can be abused pretty easy if there's no physical impact on my body for doing it repeatedly.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Are these one time use? Like you gain the ability to talk to oysters forever? Grow a new nose as many times as you want? Or talk to oysters for 5 minutes and one extra nose?

  1. Become a water quality assessor with instant and accurate data on pollutants, if there are invasive species, whether or not there are pearls present, and any other information oysters can offer about the environment.

  2. Instant paving/gravel business with a huge profit margin compared to competitors.

  3. Depends on the locus of movement. If 7” only, like a quarter step in any direction, kinda useless*. If moving your entire body 7” away from it’s previous location, good for theft I guess if the barrier is less than 7” thick.

*if you can “spam” the 7” movement rapidfire with no speed limit, you can travel as fast as you can wherever you want in a “stuttering” teleport.

  1. Useful to someone disfigured, lost one to skin cancer or other issue.

  2. Depends on what you limit a toaster to and what constitutes control. If you can control any facet of any device that heats the interior for purposes of heating the contents to a specific temperature, then this is really powerful. Engines “toast” fuel. Kilns “toast” everything from carbon fiber to ceramics to tempering glass. You now operate the only successful fusion reactor on the planet. The ability to control the specific heating of any material in an enclosed environment would have wide application.

  3. Spam it.

  4. Catching smugglers? If a container that should be empty isn’t, you can’t see in it.

  5. Get your name in the history books as an expert on the peoples and culture surrounding the language.

  6. If you were a paraplegic this would be life-changing.

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

7 would be really useful for those games where you have to find the ball under the cup. You can instantly tell if you’re being swindled, and always win.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

3 means general immunity to locked doors and restraints

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