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I mean small like I sneeze and a 20 dollar bill appears in my hand or something like that. Not classic answers like flying or super strength.

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[–] _danny@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Perfect control over memory.

So able to remember anything with high detail, but also able to forget the cringey stuff from middle school

[–] BubblyMango@lemmy.wtf 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, this is not a minor super power.

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[–] itsmikeyd@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a disease which limits what I can eat, therefor the ability to digest any food or drink comfortably.

[–] kboy101222@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God I feel this. I'm probably not nearly as bad, but I'd like to not have to carefully analyze what I eat anymore

[–] itsmikeyd@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] kboy101222@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

no garlic, no onions

Guess I'll just fucking suffer then

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[–] StankFlipper@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Not quite mind control, but I'd like the ability to blast common sense into morons minds by looking at them. Like a psychic mind dart that says, "maybe this line has a purpose and I should get in queue instead of trying to force my way in from the outside" or "maybe I should listen to the sign that says 'don't put your kid on a railing above tiger enclosure.'"

[–] Zyansheep@lemmy.fmhy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

For people who are interested in the same things I am to glow faintly, the more similar interest, the more they glow.

[–] blightbow@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ability to force anyone to objectively confront their own cognitive dissonance by maintaining eye contact.

Possibly too powerful. Some heads may spontaneously combust from a lifetime of preferring their own reality.

[–] paperclipgroove@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ok but to balance it: it forces you to confront your own on the topic as well.

That would force you to selectively use it since often times reality is somewhere between our personal view of it and other opposing views.

Chose the wrong situation and you'll both be crying in the corner with shatter worlds. Chose the ones where the people are truly disconnected from reality and perhaps you'll change their lives - hopefully for the better.

[–] blightbow@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Ok but to balance it: it forces you to confront your own on the topic as well.

I was actually tempted to include that in the original, but I didn't want to belabor it. :)

I'm fine with this, and would prefer it that way.

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[–] totallyahuman@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I tell my wife to calm down, she gets in a better mood and not a worse one.

[–] Tenoteve@feddit.de 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Instead of saying "calm down" try to say "I hear you" and actually listen. Might be the super power you seek

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[–] morganth@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago

To be able to hear the soundtrack. Like, if I walk into a building and hear the Psycho β€œreep reep!” I’ll get the hell out. But if I walk into that same building and hear β€œbow chicka bow wow”, I’m staying.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know when you have a discussion or confrontation, and six hours later you realize what you should have said? My superpower would be the wits to always think of the right thing immediately.

[–] SpooneyOdin@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

There's a French idiom for this: "Avoir l'Esprit d'Escalier" which means "The Wisdom of the Staircase". Basically, you often think of the best thing to say after you left and are walking down the staircase.

[–] Hypnoctopus@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Knowing everything about my body.

What is my current blood sugar? O2 level electrolyte status? How much shit do I have in my colon?

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[–] Cralex@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Take a mental note that I could review later without worry of forgetting it, for times when jotting something down normally isn’t practical such as while driving.

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[–] Orionza@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd wave my hand and people arguing or hating in front of me or online, would suddenly be peaceful and conjointly coming up with solutions to their problems.

[–] oktupol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Whole political parties would cease to exist if that came true.

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[–] ZagTheRaccoon@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago

Taking photos with my eyes. Would help a ton with getting pictures of cool bugs without having to fiddle with my phone and get defeated by autofocus

[–] steb@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I would love to have the ability to know for any journey, no matter how complex, what time I need to leave to arrive on time.

[–] Ashigaru@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd like to be able to double jump, platform video game-style. Mostly pointless in daily life, but imagine how good it would feel?

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[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

Ability to have perfectly control how awake i am

[–] R51@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oof.. i'm gonna go with slightly above average luck

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[–] calabast@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

If I put on someone's shoes and walked one mile in them, I could magically perfectly understand everything they're going through.

[–] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The ability to accelerate my speed of thoughts so I could come up with witty comebacks in real time and not hours later.

[–] ndguardian@lemmy.studio 8 points 1 year ago

Instead of sleeping at night, let me just plug in to a charger. It would be much more convenient and reliable.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Undo button.

[–] smstnitc@lemmy2.addictmud.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Not require sleep, ever, with no ill effects (fatigue, mental issues, shortened lifespan, etc).

So much time is wasted sleeping. I have too much shit to do! It's 2am because I was up getting some code working for another team at work, and we just moved, so I have tons of unpacking to do!

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[–] Meowstermind@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago

Being able to find the exact book page or moment in a Netflix series where I was when I fell asleep last night.

Or when my cat starts to make her first vomit sounds being able to beam her from the carpet to a floor with tiles in a split second.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

No tendency to procrastinate

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[–] Uno@monyet.cc 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be able to stockpile time up to 24 hours. For example, if I'm running late on a project, I can dip into a time stockpile for 8 hours to get it done. At a later time I can then lose 8 hours from my time

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[–] NattyNatty2x4 6 points 1 year ago

Being able to manually adjust my focus on and interest in what I'm doing.

[–] Mobile_Audience@pcglinks.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Knowing which of the last two pieces of fruit on my plate is sweeter.

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[–] stagen@feddit.dk 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That I could tell someone to stop doing something and they'd actually listen and stop.

[–] BubblyMango@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"stop breathing"

Boom dead. Best assasinatoin superpower.

[–] stagen@feddit.dk 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I dunno, you'd have to get near someone to do that. Before long you'd be hunted down by people wearing earplugs.

I was really just trying for the more pedantic approach. "stop being annoying!"

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

With the example given, I feel like my go-to super power would still be applicable here:

Whatever I draw, I can make real. The first thing I'd draw is a pill that allows me to draw better.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Small thing" and you immediately go to infinite wishes haha

[–] weew@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

just a little omnipotence, I'm not asking for much

[–] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

to instinctively know what a person wants.

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[–] workishell@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd want a pen or pencil to come out of my fingertip. Retractable, of course. I'm always looking for something to write with and never can find anything that works decently.

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[–] CyanFen@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Remote restroom usage

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

The ability to instantly make anyone stub their toe.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The abilty to change the color of anything.

Anything that would be improved by paint is on the table at a thought.

Likely way to powerful in a combat sense. You could tag enemy combatiants on a battlefield in dayglo orange or turn the whole landscape into that zebra ship paint they used in ww2. Hell, you could just turn everything bright white during the day and black at night except the enemy. Would be a nightmare.

Still, really neat.

[–] laxu@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

The ability to mute any sound I hear. Baby crying, annoying hum, someone snoring, obnoxious drunk? Muted.

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