Please don't post about US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either [email protected] or [email protected].
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email [email protected]. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
No consequences, positive or negative? I think I’ll just stay on the sofa.
What even is the point? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm with you, I'll have a nice long weekend.
The experience, perhaps.
kill a couple thousand politicians, but try to spare any under the age of 45. I may or may not agree with their views, but at least they'll be a part of the future they're tryna make.
torture some billionaires to gain access to their company payroll, so I can cut their CEOs pay and raise their entry-level workers' pay. Hell, I'll raise the payrates of everyone under them, they all deserve it more than a CEO.
I'd prolly only have enough time to do that to one company tho, so I'd probably choose Amazon as priority one.
Would you like some volunteers?
I would NEVER condone violence. But hypothetically, as a united States citizen, the most significant thing a person could do is eliminate two Supreme Court Justices.
It's the only part of our government with ZERO balance of power, and it is currently using its power to change settled interpretations of the law.
Fix the would by killing every billionaire on earth and distributing their wealth to social programs
The question becomes more interesting when you consider that the scenario doesn't give you infinite power to do anything, just no consequences for what you do. I mean yea if you stole a million dollars, you would face no consequences, but realistically speaking, could you steal a million dollars even if you tried? Some other people here suggested murdering politicians (which is pretty fucked up tbh) but it's quite likely you'd never even get the chance to do this within 24 hours, especially considering many politicians have security people.
I'm really trying to rack my brain for the most impactful thing I could even do within 24 hours, without consequences. One idea would be to loan as much money as I possibly could and transfer all the money somewhere else, assuming the debt is cancelled at the end of the 24 hours as it is a "consequence".
I wouldn't (and probably couldn't) do anything more extreme than that. The consequences is not what is holding me back from being a murderer 😅, that's just my moral compass.
Assuming the strict definition of "no consequences", anything we did would be reset, since it implies consequence.
Maybe redefine the issue as "no negative consequences".
If you're REALLY strict, then "retaining the memory of it happening" is a consequence. So maybe this already happened under the strict setting, but none of us remember it.
Several years ago, I went under the knife and the whole day from the point they put me under is a total blank. It's unsettling because I am told I carried on conversations with the doctor, family members, etc. after initially coming to from anaesthesia, but it's only starting the following morning when I woke up in a regular hospital bed that I could start remembering again.
Everyone's talking about killing people and I'm here thinking about how you could try every drug imaginable with zero risk of addiction
Gonna break so fuckin many laws of physics.
perpetual motion lets fucking gooooooooo!
Realistically: Steal every catalytic converter from every nearby truck and SUV, melt them down and sell them for like $100,000
If there's a security stand down: Bust into airports and destroy corporate jets.
If anything is possible: Vladimir Putin. Benjamin Netanyahu. Former and current CEOs
You could do literally anything with impunity and you choose to steal catalytic converters?
This is somehow worse than Dwight's fantasy of working in hell for $88,000 a year.
Inconsequential ? Sigh story of my life.
Man, I dunno. Probably something crazy like allow myself to be vulnerable and express my true emotions.
Haha, yeah, such a funny joke... n-no reason to think we really have emotions. Nope, everything's A-OK. So funny. Yup.
Assassinate a very specific person.
I'd be restructuring the entire government. Or as much as I could in 24 hours, anyway.
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.
Nice try FBI, but you're not getting that confession out of me this easily!!!
I totally get where people are going with eliminating dictators and what not, but knowing myself as well as I do… yeah, you'd probably find me down at the Chinese buffet.
Fuck, I'd probably even still pay for it.
Nice try fed, won't get me on a list that easily
I think you mean no negative consequences. If actions have no consequences of any kind, they're meaningless and nothing happens.
Stolen money would disappear. Killed targets would come back to life.
You could go and slap all the people you've wanted and get the satisfaction from it, while then not having any consequences for it.
No consequences?
Go through town and steal every scratch off ticket. Why? Why not. Lol
Rob every bank in the state I can get to.
Take 5 new vehicles and give them to my friends and family. I'll keep one for me.
Find a certain state legislator and kick him in the nuts.
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.
Install a whole bunch of robot body parts and become a super human..
Just to clarify, "No consequences" means that it'll all be fine, my body won't reject the implants and this won't be a terrible horrific idea, right?
Right....
Take a nap, drink a bit, acquire a few billion dollars from freshly goutined billionares, have a nice steak dinner, and not wear pants the entire time.
I like your style. May i join your pantsless adventure?
Sure, Normally I would be uncomfortable but that sounds like a consequence.
The question is kind of self-deafeating. Doing anything that will result in absolutely no concequences is .. doing nothing.
Even if you could do stuff and then turn back time, you couldn't even remember it as that would be a concequence.
Nationalize all major industries and confiscate all wealth of billionaires. rewrite the US constitution to guarantee adequate food, water, shelter, and medical care to all citizens and to guarantee the right to high speed rail and electrified public transport to all citizens, codify a progressive tax system right into it, remove the ability for any private money in elections, establish mandatory workplace democracy in all public and private companies, and require that no more than 2% of gdp can go to the military, also include an usafrucfian property rights system in it with mechanisms for confiscation of land not being used for the public good. arrest all those who have publicly stated they want to privatize any public service including schools, those who have ever fought the unionization of their workers, and sentence them to 20 years of re-education and labor. Dismantle the Supreme Court and replace it with an elected body of officials subject to recall by the public. Hopefully I’d have some time before the 24 hours to prepare.
Wait what happens if I do something that like inherently has consequences like cutting off my arm? Does it grow back after the 24 hours are up?
I don't know.
With no consequences, nothing I did would stay in my memory.
Hopefully it was something cool.
I'd love to drive my truck in places I'm not allowed to. I would do urban offroading, drive on private land and inside malls and stuff.
Maybe I'd also find an abandoned building or two and set them on fire but first I would smash all the windows. Actually now that I think about it, I'd make molotov cocktails and set all kinds of things on fire.
I would also like to try if I could fall a radio mast by cutting the guide wires with an battery powered angle grinder. This is one of the things I've always wondered when looking at these masts and thought there's no way it could be that easy.
Maybe I'd finish my day by raiding a hardware store and stealing all the tools I don't already have and probably one or two other things aswell.
Skip work and take a nap all day
Nice try government, I'm not telling you my deepest, illegal desires
Hang out in the forest with strange men and bears, or strange bear men. Whatever.
Maybe eating the spiciest food ever all day long, chicken wings dipped in Carolina reaper paste. Delicious hotness, without fear of the aftermath.
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.
Maybe steal a commercial airplane and go on a joyride. Do a barrel roll like the one guy did in 2018. Then empty my bank account or somehow aquire some money to get a few escorts and hookers and whoever wants to join, have a nice dinner and spend the night together. I suppose a nice swinger club with a good buffet will also do.
