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What's your "back pocket" wish? (lemmy.world)

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A few years ago I felt kinda lame whenever I had to "make a wish" blowing out birthday candles or whatnot and the only thing I could think of under pressure was "world peace".

Since then, I've kept a wish ready to blurt out if I ever see a falling star or toss a coin into a fountain etc

For me, it's sending my mind, with all my current knowledge and experience, back in time into my body at the moment I graduated high school, so I could re-live my life with more confidence, less anxiety and get straight into doing the cool bits of my life much earlier.

What would be your "back pocket wish"?

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[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Invulnerability. To age, sickness, death, anything that could physically harm me. I want to live forever.

Or barring that, telekinesis.

[-] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I just picture you floating in an endless void 100 billion years after entropy has moved every single subatomic particle away from each other. Somehow you have been sustained. The last sophisticated entity in the universe. Your billions of years of loneliness have already driven you to the point of insanity, enlightenment, insanity again, and finally a state of which no one could imagine. Because you don't consume food or water, you're in a perpetual state of hunger and thirst. You don't feel harmed, but you do feel peckish all the time. You could do with a draught. Your wish didn't allow for pain "thank God", you think.

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

And Cryophilia said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!"

And there was light --

[-] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

That's exactly what I thought of while reading that answer.

[-] rammer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

Site not found.

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Skill issue

[-] rammer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The problem is that they didn't want to pay dreamhost for a certificate. So https doesn't work. You need to use http://www.thelastquestion.net

Except for some reason Jerboa (the client that I use) obstinately rewrites that to use https.

[-] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 2 points 6 months ago

Eventually, Kars stopped thinking.

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