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If you could plant a single thought in the minds of everyone on Earth simultaneously, what thought would you choose to share? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by AndreyAsimow@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[-] zAkk@lemmy.world 122 points 10 months ago

We are in a climate emergency that must be drastically dealt with immediately.

[-] Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I might even go so far as plant a few policies in their heads. "We are in a climate emergency, and we should address it immediately with policies such as carbon tax-and-dividend, ending subsidies for harmful industries such as fossil fuels and industrial agriculture, investing in both established and promising renewable energy sources such as solar and wind and tidal and geothermal, reducing our dependence on cars with more electrified public transport and denser urban design, and encouraging better urban land use patterns with land value taxes." One sentence = one thought, right?

Knowing humans, if we didn't use this magical power to guide them to good solutions, a good number of us would conclude, "That's it, we need to nuke China and India to save the Earth!"

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[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 6 points 10 months ago

This is my choice as well.

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[-] calabast@lemm.ee 67 points 10 months ago

I'd go with "Hey, it's God. I actually AM real, but I'm heading out. You guys are on your own from now on, no more afterlife or anything. So be good to each other! Alright, I'm out. (oh, and just some advice? you might want to get ahead of this climate change thing)"

[-] Stuka@lemmy.ml 17 points 10 months ago

Sounds like a recipe to stir up religious backlash on insert group here for driving god away

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[-] MothBookkeeper@lemmy.world 49 points 10 months ago

"MothBookkeeper is the dictator of the world, and I completely trust his decisions."

Nevermind the logistics of that; power lives where people believe it does.

Then I could make multiple beneficial changes, such as:

Heavily taxing the rich
Enacting drastic climate policy
Banning paper stickers that rip as you try to take them off
Sending Mitch McConnell on a rocket into the sun

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 11 points 10 months ago

Considering our names start similar and that you going to do something about stickers that rip off, I give you my support

[-] ProperlyProperTea@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

I also choose this man's Moth

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[-] kablammy@sh.itjust.works 37 points 10 months ago

"You lost the game"

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[-] gusVLZ@sh.itjust.works 32 points 10 months ago

Don't be a dick

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 30 points 10 months ago

Problem with that is that many people are being dicks while thinking that they are not being dicks.

[-] jhn@xffxe4.lol 7 points 10 months ago

Used to have this as the only rule for my Discord server, and it obviously wasn’t clear enough for people to get.

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[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 31 points 10 months ago

Honk honk it’s the goose

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Can you imagine the amazing headlines.

"City Agrees Spirit Spoke To Them; Was A Goose"

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[-] AndreyAsimow@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Global çonfusion is imminent.

[-] AndreyAsimow@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

Everyone! I am Son Goku and I need your energy to defeat Majin Buu!

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 10 points 10 months ago

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 10 points 10 months ago

Lol as a kid me and my sister raised our hands to the ceiling to give goku our chi in solidarity, while watching tv.

I'm pretty sure if I hear this in my head, today, as an adult, I'd do it again. No questions asked

[-] MyDogLovesMe@sh.itjust.works 25 points 10 months ago

“The purpose of your life is to make others happy”

Put that in the head of all the ‘players’.

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[-] Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

There is no God.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

The circumstances might 'prove' to a lot of people that there is

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[-] McNasty@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago

What's that? Oh shit, can they hear us? Turn it off, TURN IT OFF!

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[-] zeusbottom@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago

Give them all a vision of the Earth from space. Look at that, all ya sonsa bitches.

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”

— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, People magazine, 8 April 1974.

[-] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

The irresistible urge to consume at least one billionaire. They would think that if they don’t eat a billionaire they would die. Hilarity would ensue.

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[-] Prethoryn@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

The Earth is dying and it can live on without us once we are dead.

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[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago

"On the count of 3, jump!"

I'm just curious to see what would happen.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Here you go.

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[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 14 points 10 months ago

The experience of being the victim of real violence. It's pretty clear most people don't really get it. And it's weirdly common for people to have romantic ideas about fighting, revenge, punishment, war, and even torture. I think it would be eye opening.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 10 months ago

It's a good idea to have government programs to take care of citizens without requiring any strings to get help.

[-] megsmagik@feddit.it 14 points 10 months ago

It’s not a thought but I would put empathy

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[-] artic@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

Reject your humanity become a catgirl nyaaa

[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 12 points 10 months ago

“All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.”

[-] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 11 points 10 months ago

Seize the means of production

[-] Transcendant@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

"BE KIND"

[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

REWIND

[-] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 11 points 10 months ago

That Pale Blue Dot speech by Carl Sagan.

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[-] djsaskdja@endlesstalk.org 9 points 10 months ago

Stop buying things

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[-] WastedJobe@feddit.de 9 points 10 months ago

"Dammit I just lost The Game"

[-] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"Send Squirrel money." (With details, of course. Can't have them giving money to some random squirrel.)

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[-] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

We have to stop killing the ecosystem and each other immediately!

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[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

The signal your brain gets when you really have to take a shit, right now, or there will be dire consequences.

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[-] hackris@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

Start caring about your privacy, governments and corporations are spying on you

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[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Protect those weaker than you.

[-] netburnr@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Be friendly to someone today.

[-] MelastSB@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

"boobies"

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