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Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world ·
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What would you do with if you had the Midas touch?

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What would you do with if you had the Midas touch?

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    I’d “make a golden tree statue”, sell it for crypto, buy trump coins with it, go to his dinner, and shake his hand.

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      I like this plan. The first half made me hate it, which is a pretty good sign it’s hitting the right key points of environmental destruction, profiteering, crypto, bad crypto and buying influence, but then brings it back right at the end.

      You’re going to have to be careful not to touch anything at the dinner before shaking hands, you wouldn’t want to give the game away too early.

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        15 days ago

        You’ve got a point, I should probably just touch a rock and start the thing with that instead of a poor tree.

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    Starve to death, probably. Isn’t that what happened to King Midas?

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      I mean, there’s the time period where your not starving to death but, ya, you probably ded.

      I mean I don’t see how you couldn’t do a feeding tube other than it’s going to be not great pulling that sucker out.

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        The liquid still touches.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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          So does air, or the thing you’re sitting on.

          I imagine depending on the rules, this would turn the whole world into a gigantic gold ball, which would then collapse into a black hole or something.

          • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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            Depending on the rules, exactly does this magic conserve mass? Uranium would get bigger, cotton candy would shrink to a flake? All of the air in the world weighs 5.5 quadrillion tons. A ton of gold is 16.5 cubic inches, or 270 cm³ - so a block about the length of your foot plus a bit per side 5.5 quadrillion of those - a 1,487 cubic km block.

            I’d choose to shape it into a giant pyramid, which would minimize how much it sinks into the crust, and look cool AF for the 130-odd seconds it takes everyone to asphyxiate because we’re staring at a giant gold pyramid made from the matter that used to be the atmosphere.

          • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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            Ice-IX. From the book, not the real stuff discovered after the book.

    • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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      Can you catch grapes in your mouth? We need more details on the rules.

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      They hadn’t invented gloves back then?

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      Use the thing that Phage the Untouchable had to use to eat.
      It had claws to peel her lips back, and an extender that would push very raw meat down her throat (it would start to rot the moment it touched her, so the fresher the better)

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  • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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    High five a certain gold loving narcissist

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      It would be fitting that his hand would be stuck upright in that “awkward hand gesture”

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    Turn everyone I hate into gold and then melt them down and make golden urinals out of them.

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      Found trumps account

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    Jerk off.

    • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOP
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      [Insert goldmember]

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        this certain mike myers movie was in my head when i read the prompt.

        where though, i cannot say

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    Devaluate gold.

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    The man with the gilded crotch…

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      Goldmember…

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      …not touch my…shit I touched it, didn’t I?

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    I would attend political rallies and be sure to be up front for shaking hands.

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    Go to all the Republican party conventions and give everyone a warm handshake.

    That’s for everyone’s benefit. Me, I would just go grab levels and stack them in a box.

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    Probably never masturbate again

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    Get distracted and scratch my nose.

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    Turn my microplastic collection I’ve been hoarding in my body into gold.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    Masturbation is out so, probably something productive.

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    I want to say I’d strategically accrue wealth and use it to make the world a better place, but realistically I’d probably just end up running around turning random stuff into gold and totally crashing the gold market.

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