- 1 month
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.
- 1 month
My mom gave it to me!
(And then I kept it when I transitioned, and now she says it’s too feminine and she wishes she didn’t. No backsies, mom! It’s mine and I’ll never be your son.)
- 1 month
Tanis is a great name. Also the name of my favorite character in the first two borderlands games
- 1 month
How thoughtful of your mom to give the little boy version of you a feminine name. She did you a solid without even realizing it lol
- 1 month
The last thing they said. I’ll never have to say “What?” 4 times in a row again.
- 1 month
You win. The amount of times I’ve wished the real world had subtitles…
With the vague rules, I think you can have that bypass language barriers.
- 1 month
You need one of those smart glasses, if you can avoid getting punched for wearing them
Shit, is this really a feature, because that would actually be super convenient.
- SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caBanned from community2 days
- 1 month
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.
Justice can be brought without anyone believing a thing you say.
Meh, take as many as you can out before you go down. I don’t see the issue here.
- Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish1 month
I heard in america, that FBI says there are few serial killers around that never get caught. They probably have a system or lack thereof.
Some media sources have cited estimates suggesting there may be 25 to 50 active serial killers in the United States at a given time, though the FBI has stated that the true number cannot be quantified.
- 1 month
Given that most solved murders are cases where the victim knew the killer, go out and kill random people with non zero values. Spread it around.
You may eventually get caught. How many is enough to say it was worth it?
- 1 month
Yes, there’s no real chance they’ve all been caught. I’d guess risk increases with rate of killing, though, and the status of their victims.
- 1 month
What’s the point though? We already know the worst offenders without this special power and not a fucking thing is being done about it.
Edit: I misunderstood the question. I thought it was for everyone to be able to see it. Yeah, this would be a good one to have to know who to avoid…
1 monthTime 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
- 1 month
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.
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.
- 1 month
Offsetting the asshole footprint to deceive people is considered a bad action.
OK, well, what if they don’t think of their good deeds as meant to deceive? So, they murder ten people, and they also happen to do 12 murders-worth of offset. You still have no idea you’re dealing with someone capable of great villainy.
- 1 month
Similar to the other reply, it’s a good idea and seemingly pragmatic, but we could spend a decade arguing over the pedantry of what qualifies as a lie and still not be done.
Truth is tricky
- Wojwo@feddit.onlineEnglish1 month
It’s a great thought and all, but wouldn’t authors, actors, and other purveyors of fiction have really large numbers? Every politician would suddenly find a new found joy of reading fiction to children in hospitals.
- 1 month
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.
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.
- 1 month
Pedophile or not pedophile. So I guess, how many children theyve gotten sexual gratification from would be the stat. I think I would be absolutely disgusted by that stat though.
- 1 month
Yeah, and what are you going to do with it, tell the police “it’s magic, trust me bro”?
- 1 month
I guess if you could figure out something more specific than “this person diddled a kid at some point”, you could actually do that. You’d have to do some serious detective work, though.
- 1 month
I mean you don’t have to get defensive. Go see a therapist if you find little kids sexually attractive 🤮
- Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish1 month
I remember reading a story about that. A guy did go to therapy and the therapist was not helpful leaving him with few outlets to try and get past this. Wish I had link to reference.
- 1 month
It would be interesting to see this update in realtime. You see someone about to get in their car, with a death time 5 mins from now. You call out “hey”, they stop, see you were talking to someone else. The date updates to 30 years in the future, as that momentary pause meant they won’t be in the place they would have when someone runs a red light.
Somewhere unseen, someone’s number changes from 20 years away to 5 mins away.
My thought was that it would be immutable. It wouldn’t change even if I told them.
I don’t think I’d tell very many people. It’s not something I’d want people to know about me. Also, the few I told wouldn’t believe me and if I proved to others that I knew this, I think they’d see me, rightly so, as some sort of freak. The temptation to ask would be overwhelming, but they don’t really want to know.
- 1 month
It kind of ruins the concept if you can’t use the information to change the outcome. Or maybe just makes it sad, every time you try to save someone they die at that time anyway. Then over time you work out that the clock knew what actions you were going to do, and by trying to interfere with the people with short times you actually caused their deaths.
- Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish1 month
You can’t change fate but maybe can change how ppl meet it?
Like If you knew someone was going to die maybe help them bring them peace sooner.
- 1 month
Or maybe if you knew your own date you could do reckless shit. Although you might just spend 20 years in a coma before you die.
- Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish1 month
Lol that twist ending i never thought of. Know I need to define death prior to making that wish.
- 1 month
Very telling when you see an adult and the last books they read were all from high school.
- 1 month
What if they have kids they read to and its all books like the hungry caterpillar
- 1 month
moralistic integrity in comparison to social norms.
it’s basically a good vs evil bar.
- 1 month
Which society? Danish? USA? It could be very different depending on context.
- 1 month
Imagine if you saw you unknowingly had a couple of assists. Or seeing someone with a concerning number of deaths.
- Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish1 month
I died but got better lol.
I did think maybe if heart stopped maybe it could count.
- 1 month
Having been revived twice on the operating table, my kd is pretty terrible (or good depending how you look at it)
- 1 month
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.
- 1 month
They have this already. We’re just not privy to what they gather from the masses.
- TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 month
all the others seem a lot more invasive, so I’ll go with their pronouns/gender so I never have to ask and be awkward
