• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        Oof yeah that’s rough. Mine was years ago in my early 20s. She never got to see my sister become an adult, or to meet my wife, or to see me blossom into a somewhat healthy and responsible adult. Mourning is rough, but you get through it, it feels like nothing will be ok again, but you find a new ok.

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    1 day ago

    Honestly, i might be childish or something, but Markiplier. He just seems like a chill guy, and I would wanna ask him a bunch of questions.

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    2 days ago
    1. Drop the bench in the Marianas trench.

    2. Hold every billionaire ransom for the rest of their lives under threat of being summoned to the bench unless they divest themselves of their wealth to my satisfaction.

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      1. The prompt says explicitly that you have to sit on it. You can only do that once (and realistically, zero times).
      2. The bench implies but doesn’t guarantee to summon the people. Given it works on future/past people also, you’re probably chatting with their spirit or something.
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    1 day ago

    Keanu Reeves. Just the two of us, each on one end of the bench, enjoying a sandwich, and not talking but still content with each other’s company.

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    Elon Musk.

    Wait. Hear me out. The power to summon someone, hold them for an hour and force them to be conscious is really significant. Sure, there’s nothing I could say to have any immediate effect. I’d just mention that he should divest his wealth to the poor or else when my hour is up, someone else is going to summon him. It’ll keep happening until he’s no longer the wealthiest person. Then, keep going down the list.

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      2 days ago

      I mean, you’d have the opportunity to do something far funnier, and then you can spend the extra 50 minutes decorating your work.

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    21 hours ago

    … Could I spend the hour beating this theoretical individual to death instead of chatting?

    I have a few ideas of who is like to see on that bench…

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    I guess my dad so I can ask him about all the shit he didn’t write down before he died like his passwords to shit or whatever.

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    My dad tells these stories about how my great grandpa used to joke and pull pranks on the family. I wish I could have met him in person.

    That or getting an hour to pick Alan Turing’s brain. He’d probably hate the current generation of “AI” as much as I do.

    • Mickey7@lemmy.worldOP
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      For me it’s about having a conversation with someone who lived history rather than just reading about it.