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[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Lies per hour

[-] Kiernian@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Fucks left to give.

Basically, how many spoons someone has left, or how much bad and/or taxing stuff they're capable of bearing today.

This would serve two purposes. One. It'd allow me to communicate more carefully or gently with those who require it, two, it'd give me real time feedback on shit I might've doing that's causing a disproportionate amount of harm to someone else.

Ex: I can be in a wonderful mood and capable of taking all kinds of bad news, but asking me to go out of my way to do an act of service for someone else as a show of affection while I'm in the middle of some self-care after I've spent all day working in a service industry will tank my remaining fucks immediately. I'm absolutely certain that others around me have similar reactions to things that I do, and if I could see what they were, I could stop doing them inadvertently.

[-] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Counter: now everyone else knows exactly how many fucks/spoons you have left, and many will feel entitled to them because it's more than zero.

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[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

moralistic integrity in comparison to social norms.

it's basically a good vs evil bar.

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[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 15 points 2 days ago

Time left to live. There's plenty of useful things that tell you more about a person, but shinigami eyes would let you save lives and know it, even if no one else does

And if it turns out the number can't be changed through your actions, that would tell you a lot. If nothing else, you could say goodbye to loved ones and get incredibly rich by finding a CEO about to run out of time

[-] gleaminggoat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah but you'd see your own in the mirror - wouldn't that haunt you to see your number ticking down?

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

When you see a group of people with the same number above their head....

[-] ladybugs@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago

None. Someday, some company will build and sell a tool that actually does that, and it will be hella privacy invasive. Actually, it'll probably just be another invasive feature added to the Ray Ban perv glasses.

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[-] chunes@lemmy.world 175 points 4 days ago

The last thing they said. I'll never have to say "What?" 4 times in a row again.

[-] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 54 points 4 days ago

You win. The amount of times I've wished the real world had subtitles...

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[-] Zacryon@feddit.org 15 points 2 days ago

Asshole ratio: 0 % = best person in the world.
100 % = worst person in the world.

Computed as an average of bad "actions" with respect to all actions.

Good and bad evaluated with respect to proven positive impact on people's lifes and the planet.

[-] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

A new science emerges to quantify the effects various actions have on a person's score. Cottage industries take root to help people lower their scores with lowest possible effort. You will meet people who truly are assholes, but offset their asshole footprint enough that you don't know to be wary around them.

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[-] nullify3112@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I just want a music player indicator to see what they are listening to without have to listen to their music. What they listen to can be pretty telling.

Would be magic if I could press pause as well, for the people without headphones on the train.

[-] Akh@lemmy.world 147 points 4 days ago

Number of times they molested kids.

[-] sunsofold@lemmy.zip 75 points 4 days ago

Monkey paw's finger curls: You can see them. They're EVERYWHERE. People you thought you knew and loved have numbers greater than zero over their head. Despite your horror, you try to make use of the power to try to bring them to justice. No one believes you. You have the Cassandra's curse of the status quo. 'Steve? What are you talking about? He'd never do anything like that. Butter wouldn't melt. You should probably shut your mouth before we get offended about what you said about our friend and kick the shit out of you. Know what I mean?' You watch the news and see everyone who has a position of power over you and your loved ones has a non-zero number. You try to escape into fictional media but your favorite actors are non-zeroes, the author pictures in your favorite books show non-zeroes, the album sleeves of your favorite bands show non-zeroes.

Knowledge can be a burden.

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[-] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago
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[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago

Times they told the truth.

If it's objective truth, sweet! Motherload I can asking anyone the a question to the secrets of the universe and know whether they're wild guess was true!

If it's subjective truth, also useful, but you know just lies or ignorance detector

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[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago

Limit underbreak brave quotient

[-] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 89 points 4 days ago

First name.

"Hey Janine, can you move your cart out of the way, thanks, gonna get by here and go get some ice cream sandwiches."

"Excuse me, Ravi, trying to get off the train, one moment, thanks."

"Oh hey, you're a Tanis too, just like me, neat!"

This will absolutely weird everyone out.

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[-] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago

Number of cumulative years they would be imprisoned for, had they been caught and convicted of every single crime they ever committed.

I'm betting most adults are not at zero.

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[-] erb013kt@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Percentage of personal wealth donated in the last year to an org or person that they are not affiliated with.

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[-] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

Number of times they've lied

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[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Number of days since they finished reading a book.

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[-] Strider@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

The date they will die.

Various reasons.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 14 points 3 days ago

You could cheese this by picking a statistic for something like "likelihood to agree if asked for a favor". I'm not going to stress over the wording on how to make it most useful, but something like that could be interesting.

Or something like "amount of undiagnosed cancers" if you want to save people.

[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 73 points 4 days ago

Realtime running count of lies told

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[-] redwattlebird 31 points 3 days ago

A boolean indicating if they want a conversation or not

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[-] memfree@piefed.social 18 points 3 days ago

Quality of Life impact: How much damage (or benefit) their actions (work, lifestyle, whatever) have done for the net quality of life across the globe. I figure anyone who drives to work is probably doing a little more harm than good, but perhaps they make up for it by being a good school teacher or something, whereas AI coders might make things worse ... but mostly I'd like to see if ANY world leaders score in the positive.

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[-] tuckerm@feddit.online 38 points 3 days ago

Some kind of "empathy score." Not sure what the formula would be, but it would reflect how readily they feel empathy for another person, and how many other people they can care about.

A narcissist would have a 0 -- they can only care about themself. Someone with very limited empathy would have a small number -- say, they can only care about their immediate family, and they need to really get to know someone before they care about that person. People who naturally care about others, even if they don't know the other person, would have high numbers.

This number would sometimes just flat out tell you that certain people should be avoided, or certain conversations are pointless with that person. Or if you do need to try to convince them of something, the number may show you how to frame the conversation. E.g., show how it's in their own interest if they have a low number.

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How likely they are to have sex with me this very second behind those bushes over there.

Good God I'm shallow sometimes...

[-] zikzak025@lemmy.world 94 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"This stupid stat is broken, it just shows 0 for everybody."

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[-] Michal@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

Tiredness level

[-] Doom@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago

An icon to indicate if they washed their hands after the last time they used the bathroom.

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[-] BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago

A scale of 1-10 at how likely we could be friends.

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