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[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 100 points 1 month ago
[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago
[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 94 points 1 month ago

No idea. But did you hear about the thousands of neonazis who all died at exactly the same time? Crazy stuff...

[-] zd9@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago

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[-] weirdbeardgame@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

... and how'd that floating knife get there? Just, floating where they just happened to be standing ... Weird!

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

That is unironically a really cool premise for a sci-fi noir mystery novel. A detective has to figure out how multiple people in different parts of the world are all killed in exactly the same moment.

[-] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago

Suffocate or get immolated trying to move from the friction of the now solid air mass.

[-] Raglesnarf@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago

boobs

for legal reasons and to avoid the community burning me at the stake I will provide no further context.

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 29 points 1 month ago

I choose to believe that you will run around flashing people. Wouldn't that be embarassing if time suddenly starts running again!

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

Your honesty is respectable.

[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I'll cheers to that

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[-] python@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago

First, I take a long rest. Then, I might nap a bit.

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago

This is the way.

[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 35 points 1 month ago

Immediately panic. Why did it stop? How do I start it? Am I still aging? Can I still die?

Fuck FuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuck

[-] killea@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

Lol probably freeze to death. Photons stop moving, molecules stop vibrating. Electronic devices probably don't function/respond. So I could sleep (forever), no video games/tv/movies. Time travel trips me up; like I could walk around, but would time stopping fuck with the cohesion of matter/reality etc? Think you need a few more preconditions for this poll.

[-] weirdbeardgame@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

That's fair. I was trying to keep it broad to incite discussion. But since we're getting deeper sciencey with that. Let's assume that physics still includes active friction, gravity and heat transference especially since you can move. This is something like a gravitational anomaly that has affected the time space continuum in that you can move even though "Time" is stopped and everyone else is frozen in the moment

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[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

Nothing.

My cat is asleep on my lap. I am now trapped for all eternity.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 18 points 1 month ago

Remove as many nazis and nazi sympathizers as I can, probably.

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[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

Quickly get into every missile silo and jerry-rig a way to remote control them, move all the personnel out of the silos, lock access, set up cameras in all of them, then find a way to resume time. Once time resumes, announce that I have control over all the nukes, launch a high-atmosphere blast near DC, Moscow, Beijing, London, Paris, to prove it, become a global dictator.

A benevolent dictator, of course. (pinky promise 😉 just trust me bro 😈)

[-] traches@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Your high altitude warning shots would wreck civilization. Read up on the starfish prime tests.

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[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Possibly arrange for some billionaires to meet their demise.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago
[-] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Yup. This is the only honest answer.

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hit refresh and reset buttons and wonder why my devices don't work. Honestly no idea what I'd do once I figure out what's going on - any socially/legally unacceptable behavior would be a huge risk because I'd have no way of knowing how long the timestop lasts.

TBH I'd probably just try to wait it out, maybe take a walk outside and take a look around.

[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Go find an Aztec god. Someone is bound to be in charge of this mess.

[-] Artisian@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

One could arrange a lot of pranks with a time freeze...

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

Finally. Sleep.

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

Would I be blind since the photons won't be flowing into my eyes anymore??

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[-] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Take a fuckin' nap, and then a week to myself

[-] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago
[-] EmpatheticTeddyBear@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

That's why you always carry a towel

[-] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

How else to achieve the status of hoopy frood

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[-] obinice@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Do I retain my inertial momentum? If so, I immediately slam into the ground or shoot up into the sky, turning into a fine mist or burning up instantly, or both.

If the planet (and the universe) stop moving, but I don't, I'm dead, haha.

Similarly if we say that I don't retain that momentum, what happens to my ability to see? Light is no longer travelling, so I'll be mostly blind? Will I be able to move through the air, given that I'll be pushing on time-frozen air molecules? If I can move them by exerting force, are they sufficiently sparse that they have somewhere to move that doesn't require pushing even more frozen air, to the point that moving becomes very difficult?

Will air that I've moved continue to move after I breathe it out, or will it go back to being frozen in time, such that I can't sleep or stay in the same spot for long, because I will build up an unmoving cloud of CO2 around my face and die?

What other ways can you think of that would make pausing time this way suck or kill you? :-D

[-] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

I got a house full of books, notebooks to write my partners notes, and sleep. If it seems to last more than I don't know, a month? Probably walk to an Ocean, then see if one can walk or drive across one. Try and figure out why time seems stopped.

[-] HuskerNation@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Is air stopped as well because you very quickly cook to death

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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Suffocate probably

[-] NeedyPlatter@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

Intimidate a French man by moving him back to his original postion on the stairs while I pose dramatically. /ref

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[-] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

Shit myself but that's my answer for most things

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago
[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Inherently!

[-] Hello_there@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago

Look at the movie cashback

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[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Visit trumps campaign office and adjust the campaign speech at “Four Seasons” to actually be at “Four Seasons Landscaping”

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Sleep or study or both.

[-] Jaxia@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago

Depends on what time of the day/night it is and where I am. I imagine if I am at home, sleep or play computer games. If I am at work I am screwed... Fighting to drive home if other cars are stuck in time would not be fun. Would have to borrow a motorcycle or a slim form of transportation to get home. Or just bunker down at a local restaurant (that has alcohol) until time resumes. Doesn't sound like an ideal situationat all unless I am at home or can get there easily.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
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[-] Goldholz 5 points 1 month ago

Lots and lots of reading and learning. Especially languages

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