• tetris11@feddit.uk
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    5 days ago

    Make the It Follows monster real, but it goes after the richest person in the world until the world Gini coefficient is down to 0.3

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      4 days ago

      That would only encourage billionaires to nope off into space fantasy land (and of course they would still maintain power over governments). As it is right now, billionaires being on the same planet as normal people is at least incentivizing them to keep the planet in somewhat hospitable conditions.

      As it is now, the best course of action would be to depose billionaires more quickly than they can escape off-planet. And to do it in a public and spectacular way to put fear into the billionaires

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        4 days ago

        They gotta get their food somehow. If the It Follows monster can hitch a ride on an unsuspecting motorist, it can definitely hide inside a supply shuttle

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    I like the way this Genie is portrayed as an example of omnipotence without omniscience.

    He reads the news and hates trump all the same, but will he go around asking who else wants to take over Greenland?

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      5 days ago

      look the only two spells i need are transmute fart to fire and i already got that one and the other spell is jeff’s delicious feast. i’d probably kill myself with the first spell.

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      There’s a really fun discussion of news commentators on the lines of “Nobody is stupider than Trump, Vance will just be better at being evil” and “Nobody is stupider than Vance, Trump is the one keeping everything in place”.

      Reality is probably too weird to predict anyway.