What would you do?

Either you abandon the child who will drown without your help, (that you was set on helping) or you chase down the thief!

Or pick another option.

The thief turned the device off so you're not under it's influence anymore. Suggesting that he knows how to use it, and there is a possibility he'll use it for evil!

Any crime that occurs from here on out, you can alter time/reality such that it never occurs. But no one will know you prevented it from happening except you.

But you will be accused of committing the same or similar crime by someone else even though you are innocent.

The only evidence against you will be the word of your accuser and the evidence that the crime occurred, but you are not the person who committed the crime. It’s not guaranteed either way whether you get convicted or exonerated. The crime you’re accused of is completely unrelated to the one you prevented, other than the fact it’s the same crime (different victim, location, etc)

You will be able to “hear” exactly what they are thinking about you when someone near you (talking distance) is having an opinion about you. But with 13% chance it will be something completely different. For example, a person might be thinking “oh there’s a ketchup stain on the shirt”, but you might hear “this person is really attractive” or “I hate their guts”. It wouldn’t be a constant stream of thoughts, but rather a quick sentence type of a deal happening maybe once in a few conversations. You can try to rationalize it as much as you can and convince yourself what you heard is true/false as well. As in, there will be no issues if you’re certain that your friends and family love you and your significant other isn’t planning on a luxurious life with the life insurance money they got after your tragic accident. Would you take the ability?

You’re at the dog park when you see an acquaintance walking toward you. They’re a friend of a friend, and you’ve never had a bad interaction with them.
They wave, and you exchange polite small talk. They get a text, and all the color drains from their face. They tell you they have to go—a family emergency—and they have to go fast! Could you please hold their backpack for them? They’ll contact your mutual friend to get their backpack back, but right now, they have to GO, and the backpack will slow them down. “Could you please take it?!?”

1. Do you take the backpack?

After they’re out of sight, you hear sirens, and police officers rush in, searching the park and surrounding neighborhoods. You look nothing like their suspect, so they let you and your dog leave.

2. Do you tell the cops about the person you just talked to? You have no proof that the acquaintance had anything to do with whatever crime occurred. It might just be odd timing.

3. If you agreed to hold their backpack, would you look inside it? If so, when?

4. Would your dog’s reaction to the person influence your decision?

So, let’s say you get the chance to replace any one organ (so one kidney, not both) with the organ of any fictional character (prosthetics, like the arm of the winter soldier count).

If they have powers, it only applies to the organ that was replaced, so if you get Wolverine’s liver, your liver can regenerate, but the rest of you will not.

Your brain is the only organ that cannot be replaced.

Which organ or limb are you replacing if any?

Do you take the money or the moneyshots?

Antes este lugar era divertido había preguntas hipotéticas interesantes ahora todo son copia y pega hablando de paz mundial y no violencia

Centipede is completely indestructible

Centipede likes you and is friendly. It might protect you if you are attacked

You can ride it if you are tired of walking. It can follow your car at highway speeds

If you accept, you have to keep it up for at least two months. You can quit later, but not resume.

When you wake up the next day you realize that someone has implemented World Peace through supernatural means.

World Peace will be achieved in extremely passive ways. Some examples include:

1. If you swing a sword at someone's head your arm will stop moving before the blade touches their skin. No matter how hard you try, it will not move forwards. If you are holding a spear pointed at someone and someone else tries to shove you forwards to impale them, the person pushing you will freeze and be unable to touch you as well. This causal chain is unlimited. If everyone in the world tries to harm each other at the same time, everyone will be frozen into non-action.
2. If you attempt to harm someone whilst in a moving vehicle, the vehicle will be forcibly frozen and its engine will be shut off before it hits anyone or anything. The deceleration will not be felt by the passengers. If there are vehicles behind that would crash into you because of this enforced stillness, they will also be frozen. There is also no limit to this causal chain. If there are 1000 cars on the highway moving at 100 mph and the first driver decides to ram a pedestrian, you will get 1000 frozen cars and 999 irate drivers.
3. Weapons can still be freely manufactured. However, the moment that their activation would injure a person they will fail to work. Pointing a gun at someone, the gunpowder will simply fail to ignite. Pressing a detonator wired to a bomb will not trigger a detonation as long as someone is within the injury radius.
4. It is still possible to injure someone, but only if you truly intend it to be beneficial. For example, surgeons can still cut you. However, the instant they would injure you unnecessarily, their hand will be unable to move forwards. This extends to if they would accidentally cut an artery or something, so it doesn't necessarily have to be a surgeon suddenly going crazy and acting on his intrusive thoughts. Likewise, tattoo artists can still make tattoos.
5. This does not cover self-harm or true accidents that are not caused by humans. A bird strike can still crash a plane and kill everyone onboard. You can still stab yourself either on purpose or by accident.

This state of affairs will last for 1 week, at which point you are given the option of keeping this anti-violence mechanism, or reverting back to normal unmodified reality.

What do you choose?

It doesn't have to be a common or even a particularly bad vice. Just something you really enjoy doing a lot, but the celestial powers for some reason or other find abhorrent.

The Gatekeepers are unmoved by fancy words or lawyer tricks, but will resonate greatly with you speaking from the heart. Basically, if you can justify your vice in an honest or entertaining way, they might just look through their fingers, this time.

By the way; the cost of failing is Hell. Unforgiving, unrelenting and eternal, Hell.

Currently, only 3 countries can independently send humans to space: the US, Russia, and China, who was the last to join this group, 23 years ago.

You're put in charge of a massive international space program with virtually unlimited funding and access to the world's best scientists and engineers.

You have 5 years to help one country of your choice develop the capability to independently send humans into space. You can build new facilities, train astronauts, develop rockets, and establish whatever infrastructure is necessary.

Which country do you choose to make the achievement as surprising as possible, and why?

Every single night while you are asleep, an undetectable, instantaneous service resets your entire home.
Dinner dishes, crusty high chairs, rogue toy explosions, mountains of family laundry, scattered backpacks, and bathroom chaos completely vanish.

By the time you wake up, everything is washed, folded, put away, and organized exactly to your personal standards and preferences.

Surfaces are wiped, floors are clean, and your home is in a perpetual state of pristine order. You never have to touch a sponge, match a rogue sock, or spend your precious evening hours picking up after anyone ever again.

The Catch: It is a one-time, non-refundable lump sum payment upfront for lifetime service.

Think about the real cost. It’s not just the physical labor—it’s the two hours every single night after the kids finally go down that you spend resetting the house instead of resting, pursuing hobbies, or spending time with your partner. It's the weekend hours lost to deep cleaning instead of living. Time is money, and sanity has a price tag.

The Question:

Factoring in your current income, family life, and the literal years of your life you'd claw back from the chores abyss, what is the absolute maximum one-time lump sum you would wire today to make this your permanent reality?

No outside assistance. How much do you think you could walk away with?

Edit: Timer starts as soon as you read this.

The counter starts at 1001 miles. If you drive 1500 miles within 33 hours, you'll get $1M tax free for the 500 extra miles. Here's the catch: You have to announce in advance how many extra miles after the initial 1000 miles you're going for. You can announce whatever number you like: 444, 500, 642, etc.

If you hit your extra miles goal within the 33 hours, you'll get the money. If you exceed your goal, you still only get paid for the extra miles that you announced. If you don't hit your goal, you don't get anything. You can set off at any time of the day you like. You have to set off from your current home.

You have to provide your own car and you have to pay for fuel and road tolls and any other associated costs (parking, food, hotel, fines). If anyone/anything forces you to stop, the clock keeps on ticking. If your car breaks down, tough luck, the clock keeps on ticking. If your car can't continue, you can buy another car or rent one or borrow a car from friends/family, but you can't have someone drive behind with you in a second backup car. If you don't have a car and don't want to buy one, you can rent a car or borrow a car from someone. You can't swap the car you're driving for another one as long as it's working normally and it's able to cruise at highway speeds. You can visit friends and family on the road, but you can't announce your visit in advance. You can only contact them once you're less than 100 miles away from their home.

You must be alone in the car at all time. You can't use cruise control or any self-drive assists. The only assist you can use is lane keeping. You can drive as fast you want. You can eat and drink whatever you want. You can sleep wherever you want. You have to be traveling away from your home at all time. You can't drive in a circle around your city or drive 750 miles there and 750 miles back.

How many extra miles do you announce and what's your strategy to hit your extra miles goal?

You are at a BlackJack Table in a resort casino.

Magical entity did this to you for shits and giggles.

Rules:

1. You cannot leave the table otherwise effects are null. Winnings can be taken, but extra luck is gone. Leave only when you want to keep your winnings.
2. You start with $50. Your first “magical bet” must start at $50. You can double it for every hand. You have that money in chips.

3. Effects-wise, you win or draw every hand. No losses at all. However, your bladder is nerfed, and you gotta whiz REALLY BAD. The moment you have a bathroom accident at the table, luck is over.

   Winnings are not forfeit, but you get 8 years of bad luck for games of chance.

How do you play?

Your best friend is offered the same choices. If you choose to fight the killer, you both gotta agree. The killer is pretty athletic, used to informal fighting. Like maybe wrestling with friends and stuff.

The killer has no best friend. Never did.

Anyway what do you do?

You get a crisp, legitimate $20 each morning, but any time you consume any amount of banana, or something with banana flavoring in it (real or artificial), you must jump up, shout "WOOHOO!" and do jumping jacks for at least five seconds. If you are medically non-mobile, you may substitute with five seconds of enthusiastic arm waving.

You do not receive a compulsion to perform this action - you are responsible for remembering and completing the task within five minutes of your first bite of banana/flavored substance. Otherwise, $20 will be deducted automatically from your bank account or wallet per infraction. Any minute trace of banana or flavoring counts, provided it is intentionally a part of the dish and it is marketed/labeled reasonably as "banana".

You are only required to do this once per food per occasion (i.e. eating a banana means you have to do it once, not with every bite, but if you eat a banana in the morning and another at lunch, you have to do it twice).

The offer is optional, and can be stopped but not restarted. Oh, and if you don't eat any bananas or flavored foods, free money, I guess. Go.... bananas??

edit: I have a fever and forgot that cars exist, sorry to all you banana-lovers in vehicles!!

You get a lump sum of 10 million USD and a yearly payout that increases with the inflation rate, starting at 50k USD a year. Both are tax free and directly deposited into your checking account. The catch? You have to eat an extremely restrictive diet for the rest of your life.

-No meat or animal products of any kind, including dairy. no gluten or grains. no sugars or sweeteners (except for naturally occuring ones in fruit or veggies), and no alcohol. You're essentially left with most fruits and veggies, legumes (most importantly beans and soy products) nuts, and some seeds, and anything derived from those. As for drinks, you have stuff like water, sparkling water, fruit juices that contain no sweeteners, tea, and coffee.

-Any current allergies of dietary restrictions you currently have will still remain

-If any medications or supplements you absolutely have to take contain restricted ingredients, you're still permitted to take those.

-You get 2 cheat days a year. These are 24 hour days where all dietary restrictions are lifted. One is your birthday, the other is a day of your choosing. Your second day doesn't roll over so you have to use it within the year or you lose it.

-If you willingly eat any restricted ingredients outside of your cheat days, you lose all of the money and any items/assets you bought with said money.

-You won't be punished for accidentally eating restricted ingredients or cross contamination, or being tricked into eating something bad, but you have to make an actual effort to verify that what you're eating is safe. You can't just make your partner "sneak" butter into your food to make it taste better or something.

-If you live outside of the U.S, payouts will be converted to your currency. If you move countries, you'll have to convert the money you already have to your new country's currency yourself, but future yearly payouts will be converted for you. The yearly payout will be adjusted for the inflation rate in your respective country as well.

-There are no alterations to your luck/fortune, and no special immunity to law or disease/injury, etc. You can still eat too much of something or be deficient in something else. You can still gain or lose weight or have health complications from an unbalanced nutritional intake.

-There are no other life restrictions. You can still work (or not work), invest, own businesses, live anywhere, marry anyone, basically do pretty much anything you could normally do.

Do you take the offer?

(edit: fixed typo in cash amount)

The genie offers you the ability to acquire any skill instantly based on the market price. To illustrate, I spent $2000 learning how to drive, and by spending this money. I acquire the skills I need to drive with the proper license.

One can spend to acquire any skill under the world. So you could immediately graduate with a degree in law school. However, this does not guarantee you to pass the bar exam, as the exam is not part of the law school. One can acquire the knowledge at a medical school, but it does not necessarily make you a top surgeon.

The ability is unlimited, as long as you have the money to pay for it (whether by borrowing or paying it yourself).

What will you be learning?

$500 million dollars of solid gold bars. (3.7 tonnes or 3700 kg) appears on your front lawn. That’s about 300 solid gold bars

If you are able to keep it hidden for 5 days you can keep it no questions asked.

Upon accepting the challenge, time instantly freezes for everyone but you and up to 4 other people of your choosing to help move it.

You must hid it anywhere within your city/nearest city.

The gold must be hidden in a way that you could retrieve it yourself if asked so no dropping it in the middle of the ocean.

You can hide the gold together or separately but the second a single bar is found the challenge is over and you walk away with nothing.

Once you are done hiding it, time unfreezes and everyone in your city is instantly alerted that $500 million worth of solid gold bars are hidden in your city and if they can find it they can keep it.

The people you choose to help you hide the gold have their memories instantly wiped and can be on the hunt for it.

Are you accepting? What’s your plan?

Say you want to reform the country, and give the starving poor education, infrastructure and a say in how things are run. How do you avoid getting deposed? Personally, I’d name a successor and run off to another country with my billions and live a quiet billionaire life

Your father tells you you come from a long line of debt owners. The biggest account is the US national debt. He tells you that during your great grandfather time the debt was low so the government slowly pays dividend to the different owners. But during his time the debt has grew so much that they decided each of owner of the debt gets a no limit charge card for daily spending. They believe that instead of paying back interest, letting the owners spend their own portion of the debt is a quicker way to pay off this debt (cause there would be reckless spenders)

Now your father is passing this charge card to you. There are no strings attached except some of the debt owners want to keep the debt level high so they can forever keep this unlimited charge card. Your family was likely part of the ones who want to keep the debt level high instead of spending it all ... thats why you've lived your life the way you've been living up until this moment.

What are you doing to do? Are you going to live a debt free life or will you go on a spending spree for your own benefits?