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What's a thing that increased your power? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 10 months ago by LesserAbe to c/asklemmy

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Doesn't have to be a thing you bought. Just some thing you didn't have but then once you did it expanded your scope of actions.

The first obvious example that comes to mind is a car. Plenty of drawbacks to prevalence of cars, but being able to go where I want when I want, and far away, is very transformative.

I'm interested in other examples of things that aren't just useful, but that open new possibilities.

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[–] xkforce 4 points 10 months ago

When I figured out how to run computational chemistry software on my home pc. It entirely changed how I saw chemistry because I could tinker and experiment with (virtual) molecules on a grand scale. Being able to run five maybe ten thousand simulations significantly increased my understanding.

[–] Bravebellows 4 points 10 months ago

Real-time live AI captioning.

It's not perfect but more words than none.

I hold daily Scrum meetings in Zoom and everyone benefits with the transcript saved at the end of the meeting.

I raid with my guild, with Live Captions window overlaid onto of my chat box.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Going super sayan.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

AI as of late has helped a lot.

[–] 6mementomori 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

an oscilloscope.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Speaker enthusiast?

[–] kingblaaak 2 points 10 months ago

stopped getting fussed over things outta my control

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I ate a Snickers once

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Power increasers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was bitten by a radioactive spider

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Cool, Will I get super powers?

No this is the real world, you just have cancer now.

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