Hypothetical Scenario
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You are born with 100 character points. Every 10 years you can re-assign them across IQ, EQ, resilience, strength, agility and endurance. You can't improve on the stats or gain new points at all.
You can also give up 1 point permanently for $50k (today's $) during re-assignment. How do you live?
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The zombie apocalypse happens tomorrow- you must survive and die of natural causes to save humanity
It happens tomorrow, and you are exactly where you woke up today.
Nobody else knows it, but you alone understand the truth: to save humanity, you must survive for at least another five years and ultimately die of natural causes. No matter what happens, you cannot be killed—by zombies, by other people, or by any unnatural force. Only by enduring for this time and reaching a natural end can humanity be saved.
The zombies are the classic slow, relentless kind you’ve seen in movies and TV shows. They shuffle along, driven only by instinct, without any ability to reason or use logic. They can’t open doors, pick locks, or do anything requiring thought. Contact with their blood is deadly. If it gets into your mouth or eyes, it’s game over, you’ll become a zombie. A bite will also cause you to turn. Damaging their brain will kill them.
Society will dissolve into chaos as people realise what’s happening, and survival mode will take over. Grocery stores, pharmacies, and other shops will be looted almost immediately as panic spreads. It begins with just one infected person in your town, but the virus moves rapidly from person to person, too fast for containment. Within days, electricity, water, and gas supplies will likely go offline. Petrol will run out, leaving vehicles stranded. The military and emergency services won’t intervene, as personnel will abandon posts to protect themselves and their families, leaving no organised response.
As months go by, nature will start to reclaim urban areas, with animals venturing into towns (hunting potential), and weather patterns becoming increasingly unpredictable. Food supplies from looted stores will dwindle, and hospitals will become inaccessible, making survival even more challenging.
How are you going to survive? Please state your country (and city if you’re comfortable doing so) and any resources you would take advantage of.
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All men stop pursuing women
All men around the world stop pursuing women, entirely. No matter how they dress, their makeup, their hair, etc. they simply stop giving them any sort of attention or indicators that they are interested.
How does this play out over the course of 5 years?
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You gain the power to travel through time, to repair broken timelines and save people from being erased from time. However...
(Before I get asked, yes, this prompt is based on an existing character, Kamen Rider Zeronos)
A version of you from the future appears before you, and offers you the following:
A suit of armor that can withstand the force of light anti-tank weaponry, and can punch with over twenty tons of strength.
A time travelling train that is designed with weapons for fighting giant monsters.
A lifelong friend in the form of a strange birdman monster.
A set of cards that allow you to access your powers.
The future you shows you the remnants of ruined timelines and warns that your own future could become like this if you don't accept. They tell you that if you accept this power, you will be a hero who protects timelines from being erased. That you will get the power to fight monsters made from the last survivors of doomed timelines and repair any damage they cause in the past.
However, your power comes at a price. Every time you use one of these cards, people will forget that you exist. It starts with distant acquaintances, then friends, then loved ones. The only ones who will remember you all the time are your birdman companion and people who are temporal singularity points, which are very rare.
You'll become a legendary hero of time, but by the time you finish your mission, you'll be an unsung hero, doomed to be forgotten.
Do you accept the responsibility?
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In a hypothetical world where right-wing and left-wing people are separated into two groups that could not procreate with each other, what would people evolve into in 500,000 years?
for clarification, they are being continuously separated
This is an exercise in restraint. You must be able to criticize your opponent as you would criticize yourself: constructively, with respect, and without mercy.
I would suspect that the main differences would be almost entirely neurological, because physical differences are a result of moving successfully through a native environment, and those would be roughly the same. I think republicans would evolve into a colony like ants, where a small number are turned into “ruling class” hominids through specialized transcription factors in breastmilk. These individuals would have relatively higher intelligence, at the expense of the parts of the brain that allow for strong emotions or empathy. The rest of the colony would be practically identical, with heightened senses of fear, anger, and religiosity-derived joy. They would have a strong sense of cohesion, but anyone that does not fit into the society would be quickly killed in violent mobs. There would also be higher levels of sexual dimorphism, with men and women being hyper-genderized to the point that it causes health problems.
Progressives would become hyper-individualistic, and hyper-aware of social pariah rules established by their society. They would dissolve the idea of gender, and sexual dimorphism would even out and you wouldn’t be able to tell someone’s sex by looking at them. They would be matriarchal but have weak social bonds, because of the individualism. They would also reproduce much more slowly, with the average age of first childbirth happening in middle age.
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Imagine you discover a time machine in your backyard. You can travel to any point in history, but there's a catch: you can only observe and cannot interact directly with anyone or change events.
You step into the time machine and find yourself witnessing a pivotal historical moment. What event would you choose to observe, and why? Would you resist the temptation to interfere, or would you find it too tempting?
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A massive new landmass, equal in size to California and Texas combined, has suddenly emerged and become part of the United States!
In an incredible twist of fate, a lottery has chosen YOU to be the president of this new territory.
Your mission? To create the laws and regulations that will shape this new land.
What are your top priorities? What unique laws would you implement? How would you ensure prosperity and happiness for your citizens?
Share your vision for this new frontier, get creative with how you would build this society from scratch
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Mandatory State Supplied Girlfriends
Basically the government creates test tube babies in a lab and distributes them out to single dudes.
No existing natural born women are subject to this.
What would this look like ?
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How Would You Survive If You Got Thrown Overboard?
With nothing though, not even a raft. There's nothing around, not even and island.
What is the first thing you would do?
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You Suddenly Get Locked In Your Work Environment, No One Knows What's Going On. A Voice Then Comes In On The Intercom With These Instructions....
Note: Prior to receiving your position, you agreed to having an implant surgical inserted into your brain as part of the health insurance plan you choose.
The voice over the Intercom instructs that only one person is allowed out alive.
You must be the last one standing by killing your coworkers and anyone else trapped inside.
If you refuse, the chip in your brain is activated and your head will explode.
There's already one coworker dead on the floor right now because they thought it was a joke. 2 others have just had there exploded by trying to escape.
Any attempts to escape or call for help will cause your chip to go off.
You are being recorded by every camera, so they'll know your every move.
How would you survive? What's your strategy? What Are you thinking? How do you plan to escape this.?