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The rule could be anything, as funny or as serious as you want. The universe will progress in a similar way that it has up until this point, unless your changed rule prevented it from doing so.

Some examples might be:

  • The invention of currency is not allowed.
  • Iron is slightly less stable.
  • The Ancient Greeks are able to cultivate Silphium, which does not go extinct now.
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[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 9 points 2 months ago

Corporations are not people.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

Oxygen now stably bonds with three hydrogen atoms, not two. The new formula for water is H3O.

Good luck with any kind of life form that we would recognize as being alive evolving.

[–] hightrix@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Water freezes from the bottom up instead of top down.

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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

All physical constants are exact powers of ten; everything should be neat and organised.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There is a normal integer between 4 and 5 but sapient beings are completely incapable of percieving it.

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[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Religion is not "invented", does not exist

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

People have no imagination, or have literally all the answers and thus no free will in this world then?

Can't imagine a world where people don't create incorrect answers associated with a higher power

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Make entropy decrease as time goes on,

Have fun!

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[–] conartistpanda@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I'd eliminate the Joestar bloodline.

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[–] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Humans are peacefully with each other and only wage war against aliens or animals threatening to kill them.

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[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Around the time the pyramid of Giza is built, actual Aliens build a slightly smaller pyramid in modern day Tunisia. No one cares and all conspiracies still center on the ancient egyptian ones.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
  • Platinum is now as plentiful as nickel. I'll let astrophysicists figure out the side effects
  • 2cm of solid wood completely blocks any sort of radiation.
  • Complete eradication of STDs
[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

Complete eradication of STDs

It's little ones like this that have such insidious implications.
Even without a evil genie rule... No stds.

Which means that sex has no touching

Or

Everything is super fucked up - bacteria/viruses/fungi can no longer transfer from creature to creature through touch... I don't have the knowledgebase to even imagine what the results of this would be but I think somewhat catastrophic....

+-------+

Also wood would be dense as fuck. Damn.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

No gravity, sorry not sorry.

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[–] sntx@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Honestly, i may be the most hardcore atheist, but it would be sweet if there was a God. You could know good and evil for sure, everyone gets what they deserve even if it's only in the afterlife, everything has a purpose...

I think it is objectively true that nature is chaos, we emerge from nature, and everything we believe in (currency, nations, laws, good and evil) are just social convention; all of that is the truth, and adapting to the truth helps me live a better life and make better decisions. But it's hard. It takes mental effort to accept that you're not the center of the universe and it's a disappointing thing to learn. I'm tired and i want someone to hand me meaning and purpose on a silver platter.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"Let's see what scientists say about time if I remove entropy from the equation."

Also: Big Elden Ring vibes. This is basically what Marika does; alters reality and takes death out of it because she got access to the source code of the universe.

[–] InstructionsNotClear@midwest.social 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What about going after the law of conservation of energy?😈

What if energy can be created, destroyed and conserved now? :)

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Oh no the big bang deatroyed all energy.

Nothingness.

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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Everyone has 50% more empathy, with a minimum equal to the previous median amount.

[–] raynethackery@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

People can't hurt each other.

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[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Karma is real.

[–] bear@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 months ago

The theme of the whole story of the universe changes with my mood. God is real, I'm him, so is magic and karma. Some days it's hentai.

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