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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Probably do some miracles on national tv and populated areas, then create a new book club. Create sanctuaries for book study groups. Assign leaders across the world from those who protect the people.

This time the book is written using formal logic so it’s impossible to misunderstand and pick and choose what you want to follow. It only provides a logic framework of being kind and empathetic to others, respecting their rights(and what rights are), and consent, etc. This time the book will be timeless with no contradictions.

Then kindly β€œconvince” a couple of billionaires and world leaders to donate 99.9% of their wealth to the new cause. 48 hours are too short to change the world for good. But you can kickstart a brilliant process towards a great future.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

I would grab Ceres and ram it into the Earth.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Step 1 - Immediately relocate all Israelis to their country of origin (within prisons) and bring Palestinians back to their land.

Step 2 - Remove the infrastructure maintaining the puppet occupation of Korea.

Step 3 - Remove all weapons from the US/EU and deliver them to communist governments and natives.

Step 4 - Do the same with industrial/technological capacity.

Step 5 - Translate/Copy theory and deliver it to everyone on earth.

Step 6 - Build a bunch of Renewable Energy plants all over the world.

Step 7 - Destroy the Oil industry.

Step 8 - Nap in the sun but lose track of time and lose my powers so I disintegrate.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'd sleep the two days, nobody would mess with me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Probably I don't notice the whole time and go along with my standard routine.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Elon gets his dream of going to Mars. I'd put him in a cybertruck and chuck him in the general direction.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I would create my own Groundhog Day set up. Start learning task A. After 47 hours, fly around the earth to rewind time. Learn for another 47 hours. Repeat process. Learn infinity tasks and become a master at everything. On the last loop win the heart of Andie MacDowell.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Damn, you win.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I can't conceive of a better answer than this.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Lemmy has some good ideas.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Enact land reform and nationalisation of resources in countries that want it.
Help with infra development.

If super intellect is available, then fusion, vaccines and similar stuff. Also setting up some cheap manufacturing of medicines.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Does having superpowers fix my executive dysfunction? Cause if so then like, I dunno, clean my house, catch up on admin, do everything I've been unable to do

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Possibly a world tour of grabbing billionaires and far right politicians, Bibi, Putin, Trump, Le Pen, Musk, Murdoch and all the likes, showing them the messes and human suffering they helped creating and hurling them into space or something.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

That's a pretty good starting list. I don't know that I'd waste time trying to show them anything; just go straight to disposal.

I, too, was thinking "murder." It solves only a sort term problem though. Within a few years, you'd just have a new batch.

The system is broken. Capitalism as we practice it is broken; our political systems are broken (some more than others). That won't be fixed by DXing a bunch of oligarchs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You'll need to make it very visible and very real to as many people as possible, and make it sound credible that "shit like this starts up again, and I'll be back, be excellent to each other or else"

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Saved the biggest flame for Australia. Or is it just bushfire season.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Bang Lois Lane and order some pizza afterwards, obviously.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I have some rewrites I'd like to make to the US constitution.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, bless your heart. Thinking that the Constitution has any sway whatsoever in 2025.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

That's where I'll need to flex my con artist muscles.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Probably watch a bunch of tv shows and fall asleep, if it lands on a weekend.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not sure if that's fast enough, but I would try to visit all the planets in our solar system. And then head out to see what's in the Oort cloud.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No comic-buff here, but is Superman fast enough for that?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In the OG movies he goes so fast that he goes faster than light and turns back time. At least I think that was the idea. So yeah, he could do FTL travel. Given that he accelerated to that point in about a minute, it's probably doable all within an hour.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Considering it takes around 8 minutes for the sunlight to reach us, I think even a fraction of the speed of light would be enough.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No. The inner edge of the Oort Cloud is 10 light days away. The outer edge of 100 ld away.

The math looks like:

  • 1 AU is the distance from the Sun to Earth.
  • The Earth is 8 light minutes from Sol
  • The inner edge of the Oort Cloud is (minimum) 2,000 AU β‰ˆ 16,000 light-minutes, or 11 day light days.
  • The outer edge is about 100,000 AU away; that's about a year and a half to get from the inner edge to the outer edge, traveling at the speed of light.

The Oort Cloud is not only mind bogglingly far away, it's about 50x deeper than it is away from the sun.

Those are minimum estimates; some estimates have the inner cloud edge 28 AU away.

The original Superman wasn't a god, but it got hyperbolic over the years with one-upmanship until he was indistinguishable from a god. Canonically, beings regularly travel between star systems, so FTL is not uncommon in the DC universe. Heck, in Invincible (not DC), even relatively low-power beings travel FTL all over, all the time. Spacetime doesn't work the same in comics. So, Superman can travel FTL, and the Oort Cloud would be reachable. But he'd have to travel at least 20x the speed of light to get to the Cloud and back in a day, and thousands of times faster if he wants to explore it at all, or see the outer edge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wasn't aware the cloud was that far away. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's surprisingly far away! Shockingly far. It baffles me every time I stop to think about it; it's so incomprehensibly far, I am incapable of visualizing how far it is, no matter how many times I play with the scrollable solar system web page.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can you do the trick from the movie and turn back time?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can, but you turn back time to before you were Superman, but still moving that speed, so you just atomize.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

That still has a lot of possibilities :). Just rinse and repeat til you get everything right. A groundhog Day with superman powers hmmm.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are about ~3000 billionaires. Or a billionaire every minute.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean if you have all of Superman's powers you could go one a second

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

With time to spare to have a wild time with Wonder Woman.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Couple of these here 50 states gotta go. I'm annexing them on behalf of Rhode Island. Try to fuckin stop me. Wait does anybody know my powers only work for 48 hours? Cuz otherwise I think I can bluff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Naw, giant lava trenches sound like a good idea.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I would make the Fortune 500 a checklist.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Put my dog on my back and fly around the world with her!

(then when she's sleeping happily I start punching billionaires)

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