Ask Lemmy

I wish to be able to wish 3 times from an omnipotent genie that will understand and make come true my wishes the way I intended them to be undestood.

Then I'll use the genie to negate the effects of the monkey paw.

Don't you have 3 more wishes?

1 - I wish everyone had a monkeys paw

2 - I wish everyone had a genie that granted 3 wishes

3 - I wish everyone who saw a falling star could make one wish come true

4 - I wish the person who broke off the big end of a wish bone could grant one wish they desired

5 - I wish every cat and dog had a safe loving household to live in

Summer did it pretty well.

https://youtu.be/0JkmVFchJ6Y

I wish for a turkey sandwich, on rye bread, with lettuce AND mustard. And I don't want any zombie turkeys, I don't want to turn into a turkey myself, and I don't want any other weird surprises, got it?

I actually just had this happen to me irl. My old office was colloquially referred to as "The Dungeon" bc it was in the basement of an old dark campus building and to get there you had to take a somewhat circuitous path. I pleaded with my boss to move us to a new space with windows.

A few years later, we were able to move into a new suite in a different building with the rest of my department. Our new office even has windows! Except they're interior windows that face out into other surrounding rooms, instead of exterior windows bringing in natural light which unfortunately I didn't specifically mention in my wish. 😂

I wish lootsnake and hollow knight: silksong released tomorrow

I wish that no life in the entire universe has and will ever attain civilization.

Unless I have some sort of guarantee about what sort of twist the paw is doing, I'm not going to take it. Example: If the paw twists big, greedy wishes more than small, selfless wishes then I might be willing to do a small, selfless wish. If the paw is just an asshole who twists everything as much as possible, I'll pass.

I wish it was the year of Linux, and they get 90%+ market share overnight when Gabe Newell announces you can play Half Life 3 exclusively on Steam OS, which includes in-game copies of The Winds of Winter, Doors of Stone, an English translation of Mother 3, and footage of 10 seasons of Firefly that had secretly been produced in private for Gabe.

The downside is they start the enshittification process immediately. The DRMs get worse, then the ads come, and finally the lawsuits and psyops on distros that treat us well and give us options.

Donald Trump bumps his head and wakes up as an objective and rational person willing and capable of acting for the good of his country and the world instead of his own unintelligent, narcissistic ways.

I wish housing prices were actually reasonable and my generation (tail end of millennials) could afford to buy a house in the cities we have to work in.

Groceries will be affordable. But Nearly all Restaurants will be out of business.

Abortion Rights would be restored and codified, LGBTQ Rights would be codified, Workers Rights would be strengthened and we'll adopt a newly christened Migrant Rights But getting into certain job fields will be harder

American Politicians will no longer be corrupt But we will enter a World War to make it happen

Your privacy will be stored as an act will pass for companies to no longer mooch data off from you You will have to endure a life of nothing but verification checks

I wish Donald Trump a short productive term and long health.

I work for a little mom and pop business that basically operates like an anarcho-syndicalist collective; the boss more or less does his own thing full time and lets us all run things on our own. It's mostly fine but I've had a few times where I've... almost... wished that we had an actual manager to help keep things in line.

I wish Senjogahara-san loved me... Wait a minute...