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  • No consequences?

    With all due respect to the seriousness of suicidality, I can't help but wonder how killing myself would play out.

    • I would suppose you get rudely resurrected when the 24 hours expires.

      • Ah, so like Groundhog Day.

        So the choices are indulging in risky experiences, whether for pleasure or for character building (e.g. facing a storm at sea). Only memory is preserved. You can't make sociopolitical improvements or enrich yourself. (Though if you revert to a day ago you might know what stocks to buy in the morning.)

  • Can I get some prep time beforehand? Cuz I don't know how to fly an attack helicopter or a bomber and I will need all the range and firepower.

  • No consequences? I won't even know I did anything. It won't even show.
    Just carry on as usual.

    Now, if you meant no bad consequences...

    I don't know how I'd do it. Perhaps I'd steal money from some rich fuck, whatever.
    But the idea is:
    Find a train driver and bribe him with loads of money. Tell him to say that I've kidnapped him. I could even get a gun.
    Perhaps bribe some more people similarly as well, not many would care about a single worker.
    Threaten to kill them if things don't go my way.

    Ask to get some specific rail sections freed.
    Tell the train driver to do initial checks and start the train, then show me the basics on how to drive it.
    The best part starts now: I'll drive the train.

    Perhaps I'd take 3-4 hours with that. Then get to some side rail and stop there.
    In the remaining time, ask the train driver to explain me as much as possible from this field.

    5 minutes before the end thank my "hostages" for cooperating and leave the scene, hopefully leaving with loads of extra knowledge on a field different from mine.

  • kill pookin

    • If you're taking out a dictator, better take out anyone who has been eyeing their position as well. Taking down a single leader leaves a power vacuum. But as the people who would want to be dictator are eliminated, the power vacuum grows...

  • I would kill a significant number of people. Honestly. It's terrible, but that's what I'd do.

    I would need to plan out in what area would be the best place to do it to maximize effectiveness. Probably start in DC and work my way from there.

  • So, you know how in total recall he has this tracker inside of his head that he defeats with a wet towel and by just kinda pulling it out?

    So, you know how it's a pretty common thing in movies, like MI:3, suicide squad, I think agents of shield, unthinkable, the belko experiment, where guys just have like, bombs in their heads?

    So, you know how scientists have used wifi to see through people's walls?

    So, you know how we currently have a bunch of wifi satellites spanning the earth?

    So, you know how we've kind of automatically selected in our political system for a bunch of mercenary politicians that only ever act out of their own self-interest and are easily manipulated with like, free lunches, lobbying, and pamphlets?

    That's kind of my like, optimal ghost in the shell style conspiracy dealio. I dunno, I'm sure you'd need some way to get around people just getting CT scans and stuff like that, and a lead case would probably still just show up like a tumor or something, and any electronics you had would look pretty obvious too, so, who knows. You'd need to put like a water based gel around it or make it out of non-metal materials or something, which sounds a lot harder.

    Other plans include maybe like a nuclear killdozer spidertank. Kind of like a metal gear, but instead of just having a nuke on it, the nuke serves the dual purpose of also being a mobile power source, either in the form of a nuclear reactor, which you could maybe use the heat of to drive hydraulics and like a heat pump or something, or a nuclear battery, and then you use it for political leverage. Maybe you could have nuclear satellites sent up from like an island or something. Just a bunch of satellites with nukes on them, and then they fall and nuke things and then you can use that for leverage maybe once you have enough of them. Maybe especially if you were like a private company or like you were sending them all up in disguise as a different kind of thing, because then nobody could really like strike back at you without risking getting nuked by a nuclear satellite, and then MAD doesn't matter at all because they'd be nuking a bunch of random bystanders. Something along those lines.

    Dunno, just thinking of some stuff that you could maybe do that's like, more interesting or better than just like "oh I run around and kill all the politicians I don't like, like I'm shooting puppies in a gravel pit", you know? Because then those politicians just get replaced with other, shittier politicians as a result of our political system being kind of dogshit, and even beyond that, as a result of like, a majority of the population being kind of stupid, complacent, and perhaps even actively evil, if the behavior of white america broadly for the last 200 years is anything to go by. You know, burning the collective futures of your children basically just out of spite for racial minorities and to exclude them as much as is possible. Dunno, part of me says, don't blame them, they've been tricked by the rich, and the population's critical support for those causes was helpful to actually making progress, part of me says, the real progress was made by relatively small or extremist groups in the population, and that politicians and the majority white population will use every tactic in the playbook to keep things going as much as possible contrary to whatever political will you try to cook up, which is why you see sharecropping, segregation, redlining, denial of VA loans, increased police spending, the crack epidemic, and all that only comes about into the common cultural consciousness like a decade after the damage has been done.

    I dunno, in any case, I don't think you could solve all the problem in 24 hours alone, you'd have to set something up for a longer term set of solutions.

    Also begs the question of, what are "consequences"? Where does an action begin or end, really? If I steal a million dollars from the bank, am I free from the consequence of having a million dollars? I dunno, I sit on the couch, and I'm free from the negative consequence of having not become god, which, in comparison to the infinite positive consequences of becoming god, is a negative consequence. Maybe something along those lines.

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