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[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 days ago (7 children)

You've left the geanie so much room for interpretation, for example:

  • Take 30 seconds to do the task of giving all blind people eyesight.
  • You didn't say when these 30 seconds happen. Could be all at once now, but could also be everyone at their last 30 seconds to live.
  • "Eyesight" could mean that there are eyes sighting the blind one. So there's just someone around that looks at the blind person.
  • You didn't say that the people have to be alive. So now, they become zombies for 30 seconds. This means somewhere where there's a living human next to a dead blind human, the living one gets bitten, and the zombie disease can spread.
[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This man knows how to πŸ’ βœ‹οΈ

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

You just brought back a memory of this wild game. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I had troubles understanding the meaning of your monkey hand, and I'm still pondering over it. Is it some idiom I don't know? Could you pls give me some explanation? πŸ₯Ί πŸ‘‰πŸ‘ˆ

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Money paw, it's and an old story that's based on the premises of the Faustian bargain. You get your wish but with a self defeating side effect.

IE a million dollars in you back account but you lost all the login info.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Ahh, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

All blind people have sight for 30 seconds while they’re asleep

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

30 consecutive seconds or could it be 1 second, x30?

Doesn't say the quality of the eyesight, it could be just barely above the legal definition of blindness

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Ooh, I didn't see zombies as a possible outcome

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Not to mention it doesn’t say only 30 seconds so if all blind peoples eyesight is restored for at least 30 seconds then the genie could just restore it forever.

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

Or who's eyesight it gives.

Each blind person gets horrifying deep sea fish eyesight or the eyesight of someone committing murder and now they all are thought to be hallucinating.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Last point: You now have corrupted blood. Teleports back to Org

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

LOL! Blast from the past... Dead n00bs scattered everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago (4 children)

What are the three wishes that would cause untold amounts of mental damage to marginalised people without death or permanent changes to their daily life?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

Make only the next high feel like it's the first one again, without overdosing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Give all trans people the bodies they want for 30 mins

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Or just change everyone. Then you have people who never even realized they were

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

And a lot of previously cis people now being trans

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

I don't think you can do this without causing some deaths and changes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Living in a country with a fascist government ?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

This is to make sure they are not overwhelmed an hour later when the next wish restores their sight permanently.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Nah gotta make it 30 minutes. That's the true evil.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

30 days...just enough to get tests and start to change their life.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Jokes on you, I give all blind people 30 seconds of sight once in their life at the single most useful moment. Blind people worldwide regain their sight just in time to avoid accidents, to see their loved ones right before they die, or to save their children from danger.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If they've been blind since birth, then their brain might not be capable of processing this completely new stimulus fast enough

It'd be the equivalent of us being able to "see" magnetic flux using our nipples, for 30 seconds

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

While I might not be able to see the magnetic flux, I do certainly feel it with my nipples.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Except they might not understand what they see. As a kid I asked a legally blind buddy what he would do if he suddenly could see clearly and he said β€œprobably freak out. Im used to my vision as it is now I don’t know how to do anything as a β€˜normal person’”.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

OP: I knew what I was wishing for...

Bastard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Granted."

All blind people get eyesight for 30 seconds at different times while they're asleep

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Oof, monkey's paw vibes right there

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Devil: I must say I am a big fan

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

This is actually very clever. If they lose their sight again after 30 seconds then that is on the Genie's head. You didn't say for "only" 30 seconds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Bro really got the whole squad laughing with that one:

😐😐😐😐

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

Why did I think this site was gonna be better than reddit? Yikes.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What if we wished to bring back officially 3rd party apps for Reddit only for 30 seconds, would that be a better meme?

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

I still have RiF installed..

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

No patches?

Are you a mod there?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

It doesn't work but I still have it