They were lucky Aladdin was such a cool dude

The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websitemod to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 556 points –
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Final wish: You can never leave the lamp again.

1st wish: bring all insects together into one mega organism blob that slowly traverses the earth consuming anything it touches

Make bedbugs immune to insecticides.

Bedbugs now fly.

Just a FYI, most bed bugs are immune to insecticides already.

Tests and studies have shown that insecticides work as well as water for killing bed bugs. 25% kill rate and lowering each year.

The best tool against bed bugs is heat (Steam cleaner) or Diatomaceous Earth.

The time I had bedbugs we killed them with an ant's insecticide. Looking up the active chemical found its banned in the US and the EU because it induce abortions and fetus malformation.

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"All bugs are now the size of dogs."

I think that just results in billions of dog sized bugs being dead no? Isn't it a lack of available oxygen in the air that keeps their size down?

Granted, every flying insect becoming as large as a dog and plummeting to the Earth instantly would be fucking horrifying.

The inverse-square law means that most insects lack the body structure to withstand their own weight at that size, which would mean a horrifying moment or all insects growing and then imploding under their own weight.

You guys are all ignoring the most fundamental law of physics: Monkey's Paw Law.

"Grant the desired wish in the most unpleasant way possible."

Hidden Effect: Phyics now supports bugs the size of dogs.

All yards become massive piles of dead dogs erupting everywhere from the ground.

"I'ma boutta singlehandedly bring the worldwide prices for gasoline and ammo up a cent."

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Final wish, multiply every bank balance by 0.5

Would this one unintentionally help reduce wealth disparity?

By a lot! It would also cut every overdrawn bank account by half :)

Unfortunately it's just "bank balance", so actual debts outside of that wouldn't be touched.

It would get worse. Cash reserves are for working class people; the rich mostly hold stocks which appreciate over time.

Divide every bank balance by zero

That's just a fancy way of saying "cut in half".

That’s just a fancy way of saying “halve.”

That's just a fancy way of saying "divide by 2."

that's just a fancy way of saying:

imagine you have two children and live in a system of gavelkind succession. now consider the share of one of the children. then forget the children and make that share the new bank balance

XKCD 2741 Alt Text: "I wish for everything in the world. All the people, money, trees, etc." "Are you SURE you--" "And I want you to put it in my house."

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Give everyone tastebuds in their anus.

Of course I know the taste buds in my colon (TBIMC) can never be cured, but my doctor told me that with proper diet and excercise and Poisantin, my TBIMC could be monitored, putting me in control of the size and sensitivity of the taste buds in my colon.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h\_jX2KT7AMY