Helping others to do their best, especially when it's something they are truly passionate about.
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2024
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What if the thing they're passionate about is doing evil murders?
Hear that everybody? This guys an accessory to murder!
Username checks out
If any comment from this section was going to get me the "username checks out" I thought it would be the one I made for "Cheesy McSneezer, and the Cheesy McSneezer 7"
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Doesn't mean he has to help. Just good at it when he chooses it
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Generating world peace.
The world would become a better place, and no one would be able to trace it back to me. I get to live in a warless world and still have my privacy.
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Cracking DRM. Win-win.
Judging from some of the prolific ones out there, cracking DRM requires you to also be absolutely batshit insane.
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I feel like you could game this… my superpower would be making a hit album in a day. I’ll just tell them it took several weeks. Replace album with day trading, writing a comedy set, movie, engineering designs, theoretical physics…
Game this is easy: I will be the best at commiting crimes without getting caught. In your face Moriarty
I was going to say "robbing banks" but I prefer the generality in your answer.
CRANKIN' MY HOG AROOOO!!!!!
I love that THE_PACK memes are leaking into Lemmy. WE MADE IT BOIS!!!
THAT'S CUZ THE PACK NEVER LEAVES A BROTHER BEHIND AROOOOOOOOOOOO!!!1!
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computer programmer
Time to contribute great code to tons of open source projects, completely anonymously of course.
exactly
Theft.
Nobody's claimed stock investing yet, I'll take that one.
Can it be murder? I'd fix the world with violence if I could get away with it.
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Making people laugh. They'll keep thinking there's someone funnier but they'll be wrong.
Embezzling money
Being a spy. Did I crack the code??
Not really. Spies need a handler. If no one can know then you can't tell anyone the secrets so you're a terrible spy.
Schrodingers spy.
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Social engineering. Give everyone a sense of agency but make the world in my image.
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Being famous, in order to create a paradox.
It doesn't create a paradox. It just creates the same situation I've been thinking about for 30 years.
If I had any musical talant, I would be "Cheesy McSneezer" and my band would be "Cheesy McSneezer and the Cheesy McSneezer 7". It's a death metal jazz lounge band. They create all original music, but nobody knows who Cheesy McSneezer is. You hear him on all the albums, but every time you go to the concerts, the band tells you "Sorry guys, I know you came out for a great show, but Cheesy McSneezer couldn't be here tonight. So instead, please welcome our one night only temporary lead vocals......(Insert any random well known musician here)"
And every show, the reason why Cheesy couldn't make it changes, and is always completely absurd. And every album cover is like 100,000 people all coming together for a photo shoot. Somewhere in the photo, Cheesy McSneezer is always on the album art......but it's never aparent which one he is. And the photos are taken from so far away that you really don't have any up close visuals to cross reference the other photos with.
So every concert, is technically a famous musician doing cover songs for a guy that nobody knows who he is, but also everybody knows who he is.
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Give me something like physics. I'm just damn curious about how clouds form, or how ants can't be the size of elephants. Back when I took physics courses I felt like I had a better fundamental understanding of the world.
Nowadays I'm busy going in another direction, but a cozy Wikipedia article is always fun to read from time to time.
Keeping secrets
Picking lottery numbers
Future’s market.
Making money.
Vigilante murder.
Innovating new outside-the-box stuff, procedures, code, whatever. A robust public domain would happily be my legacy.
No small amount of art too.
Being unnoticeable
Writer. Publish under a pseudonym. ;)
Sleeping.
Potatoes. I would be the best at potatoes.
Making money
making money. a win win really.
Life. Nobody would ever figure it out. They might think/say "he's got the best life", but who would think "he's the best at life".
Alone time 😉
Inciting the revolution.
Not giving a single F about anything.
I wish I could return to the state I was during pre birth. I have been given a small time frame of giving f's though until I will return to that state I desire to be in.
In about 50 years if nothing out of my control wipes me out I will return to being non existent.
Thinking about this makes me wonder, I havent given a single f since the big bang and now I am thrown on to a globe and a large handful of people passively forcing me to do. I have to be. I never had the option to not be. Lets see where this goes
I havent given a single f since the big bang
You think you're the first living creature to use those atoms that make up your current body? You're just the current tenant.
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