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If humans could have one superpower, but only for a day, what would you
choose and why?
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|u/Present7236 - 6 hours
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|Time goes back
|u/No_Tailor_787 - 6 hours
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|One do-over where we could go back in time to a place of our choosing
|while retaining our knowledge of the future.
|u/Toilet_Rim_Tim - 6 hours
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|December 6th, 1999 8pm
|u/WrenTheEgg - 4 hours
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|you do not get to just say that specific ass time and not give us
|more info, please elaborate
|u/Toilet_Rim_Tim - 4 hours
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|My Dad revealed how little he thought of me. I wasted a decade
|trying to change his opinion. I haven't spoken to him in almost
|10 years, he's currently in the hospital, might die this week. I
|refuse to visit & the funeral is 50/50 @ best.
|u/WrenTheEgg - 4 hours
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|I’m sorry that that happened, i feel you. Came out to my dad
|about a month ago after 18 years of doing everything i could to
|be the best kid i could for him and looking up to him and he
|disowned me just because he’s not willing to even make an
|attempt at understanding. Threw away 18 years just like that.
|At least i got influence to write the best music i’ve written
|yet. I hope you’ve found something positive out of this.
|Forecast says i’ll likely never have my dad back so I’m truly
|sorry, i hope you’re doing better now. Edit: Also i love your
|name, very silly
|u/No_Tailor_787 - 2 hours
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|As a dad of four, I can't imagine disowning one of my kids
|for being who they are. Good luck to you.
|u/No_Tailor_787 - 2 hours
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|I barely spoke to my mother for the last 15 years of her life.
|Different reasons but just as bad. I have to ask, though...
|Why would you go back to that particular time? To spend the
|time after not wasting time trying to change his mind?
|u/Toilet_Rim_Tim - 2 hours
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|Have a heart to heart w/ myself & walk away vs wasting the
|time on someone as stubborn as him.
|u/No_Tailor_787 - 2 hours
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|Makes sense. A word of advice, if I may... My mother
|passed last year, after being full no contact with anyone
|in my family for years. I was told indirectly by a niece
|that my mother was days from passing. I went to see her. I
|told her I forgive her and we were fine now. I didn't
|necessarily do it for her, I did it for myself because I
|knew at some point in the future, I would wish I had. And
|now I'm glad I did.
|u/Toilet_Rim_Tim - 2 hours
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|My aunt, his sister, continues to encourage me ....
|there's just nothing there. No good times, no "my 1st
|baseball game", no "I saw you hit that 3 to win the
|game", hell, he didn't even come to my graduation. Just
|zero fond memories.
|u/No_Tailor_787 - 2 hours
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|Do what feels right for you.
|u/GingerBest - 1 hour
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|It's strange, many have the same problems. Well, I talk to
|my mother when we are going through a divorce. But even so,
|sometimes she creates problems for me... I'm still a stupid
|daughter, but when something needs to be done, then I
|immediately get questions... I have a higher education,
|unlike her and my father. My grandmother received more in
|the Union, and also invested in her younger daughter (my
|aunt), she graduated from a private university. But what's
|the point? All the same, my grandmother helps her beloved
|younger daughter all her life... And my mother is always
|offended, and always takes it out on me. And I always had
|my own opinion, I have different values than the rest of
|the family. But I am the one who suffers from the war now
|more than anyone in the family. Fortunately, I sent my
|brother abroad in time with my mother, it was a fight to
|get her ass up! (all over the phone) And my aunt and
|grandmother did not lose anything, everything is fine with
|them. Only my son-in-law got problems, then karma returned
|to him... and even then, only an idiot would do repairs in
|an apartment during a war... his house was damaged again
|and a lot of things were broken there again... The main
|thing is that before the war I lived with a friend and his
|family, and now it will soon be 970 days since we haven't
|seen each other... in April it will be 2 years since our
|house was destroyed by both sides... I really want all this
|to end! I want to celebrate Christmas with my brother, hug
|him. Hug my friend's father, because we've been through so
|much... I want to hug my friends who are still at war...
|And they all think about how to earn more money for
|themselves... this little one stamps his feet more and
|more, how is it that they decide something without him...
|rrr... How unbearable it is... Appreciate what you have,
|and don't let anyone take it from you!
|u/No_Tailor_787 - 5 hours
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|What happened?
|u/Mayonaiseiskinky - 1 hour
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|I’d decommit from college and take an extra semester at a local
|community college to figure myself out
|u/Cannotbestopped69 - 6 hours
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|The ability to actually listen to an opposing point of view and
|consider it while trying to find common ground amongst the
|disagreement.
|u/Ok-East-5147 - 6 hours
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|But then Reddit would cease to exist
|u/Cannotbestopped69 - 6 hours
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|Naa, the power only lasts for a day. The day after everyone would
|go back to normal. Reddit would be down for a day, at the most.
|u/SoLostInAStrangeCity - 6 hours
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|The ability to get you to stop spamming posts in this subreddit and
|burying everyone else’s questions.
|u/SoLostInAStrangeCity - 6 hours
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|I’m hardly a bot. Also, I try never to post something new sooner
|than an hour apart, so people don’t have their posts buried.
|u/SoLostInAStrangeCity - 6 hours
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|Wowwww, 17 whole posts in 7 days, you don’t say? I hardly
|consider an average of 2 to 3 posts a day on a massive
|subreddit where people churn out questions at a much faster
|rate to be a lot. Also, I made this account to post in a
|specific subreddit, but I was told I have to take time engaging
|in communities before I’m capable, so yes, I’ve tried to be
|active on Reddit so that I can meet the qualifications
|necessary to make the one single post I’ve been wanting to make
|for over a week.
|u/JC090 - 40 minutes
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|Can a mere mortal handle such power though?
|u/Swiss_El_Rosso - 6 hours
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|Teleporting in a vault, getting some diamonds, jumping back home and
|thats its.
|u/ImplementFragrant481 - 6 hours
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|Ability to absorb and retain knowledge. (Touch a book and instantly
|have it memorized. Touch a person and instantly have their skills)
|u/Swiss_El_Rosso - 6 hours
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|Oh, thats good 👍.
|u/Fearless-Ad81 - 4 hours
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|The only way to ace math.
|u/apatheticchildofJen - 6 hours
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|The power to feel the emotions of others
|u/313deezy - 6 hours
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|Go back in time and buy a shit load of Bitcoin and come back and be
|able to support my family. Fml
|u/GingerBest - 1 hour
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|This is too simple a way to make easy money. You are on the level of
|a few people with this phrase, who with their capabilities receive
|colossal profits at the cost of human lives... Think about it,
|nothing in life comes easy.
|u/GreatBayTemple - 6 hours
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|Shutting the fuck up. World peace for a day.
|u/GingerBest - 1 hour
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|oh, how right you are. And it is desirable to give people the freedom
|of choice, to stay in the country or to leave it! And not to take
|away the right to freedom of movement!
|u/Rem_Wanna_Die - 6 hours
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|Time space manipulation definitely for obvious reasons
|u/cuteandnaughtyxx - 6 hours
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|I would choose the ability to heal others instantly, to help as many
|people as possible in just one day.
|u/GingerBest - 1 hour
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|I see a really worthy desire) Are you helping in any way now?
|u/Loose4171 - 6 hours
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|Turn the stone into gold.
|u/IshtarJack - 6 hours
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|Empathy. To stop all the mindless killing and destructive behaviour.
|u/VelvetViolet72 - 6 hours
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|I’d choose the ability to read minds, just one day to understand what’s
|really going on in people’s heads could change everything.
|u/Previous-Mode-135 - 6 hours
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|Shape shift, I have my reasons + but imagine the fun you could get away
|with. Bring the manager of a bank for example and making a quick
|withdrawal lol
|u/DaddysLilCandyBaby - 5 hours
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|Communication with cats!
|u/GingerBest - 1 hour
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|Oh, cool. You read the book Weber "Tomorrow's Cat"?
|u/HelloFromJupiter963 - 4 hours
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|Eat plastic and turn into clean water. Get munching you slackers.
|u/MiddleCharge648 - 4 hours
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|Seeing what higher dimensions look like would be great.
|u/daedalus1982 - 3 hours
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|Uncontrolled telepathy. Because if it can be destroyed by the truth,
|it should be.
|u/Low_KeyLx - 6 hours
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|Fixed all past mistakes
|u/Kaiserhawk - 6 hours
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|It's called twitter
|u/InvestigatorNo_1 - 6 hours
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|Yes witter
|u/DZLars - 6 hours
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|I would not leave the house. I would lose my family and job in
|minutes if anyone knew what I really think
|u/BeautifulMusee - 6 hours
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|I'd choose the ability to manipulate time, just one day would be enough
|to change everything. Imagine pausing, rewinding, or fast-forwarding to
|fix mistakes or make the most of every moment.
|u/catmoon - 6 hours
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|Immortality for a day. How long would it take for people to even figure
|out?
|u/SetLeather9353 - 6 hours
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|The ability to read minds. Why? Chaos.
|u/LandedWrong8 - 6 hours
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|The ability to fly like Superman! I'd fly to my friends' homes and take
|them up for a while until I ran out of them, then just everyone I met.
|People would talk about it for years.
|u/Upstairs_Hunter3039 - 6 hours
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|Time travel
|u/NightOwlIvy_93 - 6 hours
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|Being a "jack of all traits". I could help people with ANYTHING.
|u/SeasonPositive1871 - 6 hours
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|The ability to detect factual lies coupled with the desire to call
|people out on it - watch the world unravel as people are forced to be
|honest
|u/MarySaoirse - 6 hours
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|Masturbate without touching.
|u/kuonanaxu - 6 hours
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|Supersonic speed; I'll visit all the places I've always wanted to; plus
|I'll visit all the banks too. Lol
|u/dasuglystik - 6 hours
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|The ability to generate legal, high denomination currency endlessly on
|demand.
|u/TheJDudeAbides94 - 6 hours
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|Read peoples minds and memories like vr experience.
|u/jtb-96 - 6 hours
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|Intelligence
|u/IshtarJack - 6 hours
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|I read that as I get to choose one power that everyone has.
|u/GlueSniffingCat - 5 hours
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|The ability to manifest anything I want instantly that remains
|persistent after the day. I would create the sundial device, which is
|a 2000 ton hydrogen bomb encased in a shell of cobalt-60 that was
|really thought up by the guy who built the hydrogen bomb in the castle
|bravo test.
|u/mischievousbabee - 5 hours
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|Time travelling . That would save most of us a lot of energy and time
|trying to achieve things that won’t even be part of our future lives
|u/Toilet_Rim_Tim - 5 hours
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|My Dad revealed how little he thinks of me. Wasted 12-15 years trying
|to change his opinion. My brother is his favorite, I'm little to
|nothing in his eyes. Haven't seen or spoken to him in almost 10
|years, he's in the hospital, might die this week. Definitely not going
|to visit, might not attend the funeral.
|u/DireWolf_Arg - 5 hours
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|Be able to stop and start time at will and be able to mové around. Time
|would have no effect on me
|u/BlossomBright40 - 5 hours
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|I’d choose the power of healing—just one day to ease pain, fix broken
|relationships, or help someone in need would be worth more than any
|other power.
|u/sugoiidekaii - 5 hours
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|I think some kind of healing power that would restore your body and
|mind to perfect health would probably be good for everyone.
|u/Suitable_Air5043 - 5 hours
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|See, this is interesting because if EVERYONE in the world got to make
|this choice, how many would pick money? I certainly thought of cash
|immediately. So if a huge amount of people suddenly become millionaires
|or billionaires, flaws would hit society hard. Prices of everything
|would skyrocket. Lavish, extravagant opportunities everywhere. The
|world would change forever in unpredictable ways. I really like
|thinking about this. If money is everywhere then suppose you want a
|different power. What would work best in this post-wish world? What
|would the statistics be for people's power choices? This would be a
|fascinating social study. There's so many ideas. Making money out of
|thin air has got to be on everyone's mind. I mean, look around. Or, I
|could grant all my loved ones a peaceful death when it's their time.
|You can't predict the future, or wait, maybe you can! Or I could have
|infinite knowledge, learn as much as possible, but would I keep that
|knowledge tomorrow? I might have the power to save an ecosystem, but
|will it last? And knowing that everyone can do this, should I be
|selfish? Anyways, I guess what I would do is overthink the hell out
|of the situation and at the last minute probably just wish to be able
|to make money out of thin air. I mean, have you seen the price of eggs?
|u/WrenTheEgg - 4 hours
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|the way you worded it sounds like you’re giving every human a power for
|the day so i choose instant wisdom based on empathy. I think even after
|that power goes away we’ll remember how we felt and the ideas we had
|and it might influence us to work together better
|u/RedMageMajure - 4 hours
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|Mind reading - just to watch the world burn. All the people that
|don't actually like each other. The brutally honest but accurate
|children. The old guys and gals who just don't give a fuck. We likely
|lose a goodly chunk of the world population and society as we know it
|would likely end.
|u/qoqenell - 4 hours
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|Teleport is the best for me
|u/JeniWMT02031 - 4 hours
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|I'm picking Rain Dance for humans because it'll really screw with 3rd+
|world countries.
|u/imadork1970 - 3 hours
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|Instant healing
|u/snajk138 - 3 hours
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|Reading thoughts. I think that would change the perception of a lot of
|people, politicians obviously but also others.
|u/Schro_Not_Found - 3 hours
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|Then I won't wish anything.
|u/INTJ_12 - 3 hours
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|Finishing all tasks by snapping my fingers
|u/rociojimnezz_ - 3 hours
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|Being invisible whenever you want is the best and .
|u/Metalloriff - 3 hours
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|Super intelligence. Or actually, fuck it. Intelligence. It's a very
|rare power
|u/loontoon - 2 hours
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|The ability to teleport myself and objects from any place to any other
|place.
|u/GingerBest - 1 hour
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|Teleportation. It would be nice if I could get my boyfriend and dog
|together. And end up in Germany, for example. We lost our house, my
|parents are already in the Czech Republic, my father has become
|disabled because he has diabetes. But we couldn't take the dog with us.
|Only the cat. My friend's family also left the occupation, and their
|houses were destroyed... his grandparents live in a dorm room, in
|fact... at 70 years old... and they'll hardly ever be able to visit the
|graves of their relatives... I'd like them to be able to do it, but
|there's a war there now and a lot of mines... So at least a teleport
|for a day, so that we could get out of this concentration camp where
|nothing of ours is left... Or else these people should stop this damn
|war! And not make a ton of money on it, while the "allies" countries
|are making money too... While people are dying! Neighbors! Not some
|terrorists! But neighbors who wanted to live in safety and with normal
|government institutions! And not get stuck in poverty and survive!
|Constantly afraid of getting under fire... damn, even now I'm writing
|and hearing explosions... And it could have all ended long ago,
|considering that many are ready to temporarily give up the territories,
|since these are already scorched lands, unsuitable for life! If only
|people would stop dying! Foreigners also suffer, those who serve or
|journalists! But people are hysterical, how can they stop earning and
|laundering money! Damn, I hope soon there will be sanctions and
|imprisonment against some people who usurped power! This is no longer
|democracy!!! Ukraine ceased to be a democracy in 2023...
|u/grimreefer87 - 1 hour
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|It being temporary is a game changer. I'm going for the Midas touch!
|u/MagicSPA - 1 hour
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|Time travel, purely as an observer. I'd visit a few key moments in my
|life, and go forward 200 years or so as well to see how things play
|out.
|u/sithelephant - 1 hour
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|Dog welding.
|u/AdDifferent452 - 1 hour
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|Ability to die without pain and never come back.
|u/Illustrious_Draw8141 - 1 hour
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|Super Memory
|u/doraemonhi - 1 hour
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|Going invisible
|u/cirelia2 - 1 hour
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|Probability manipulation easy
|u/HappyGnome727 - 56 minutes
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|Time control, nothing else even comes close for me. You could do
|anything in 24 hours with it, even reshape the world.
|u/Xlr8alexander_dude - 51 minutes
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|Dimensional storage. I would put all of my sister's drawings, paper
|cutouts and stickers of k-pop dudes and just watch her get confused.
|u/fermat9990 - 47 minutes
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|Give anyone who downvotes me an immediate deposit of -1000 karma points
|😀
|u/1998ChevyTaHoe - 47 minutes
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|Teleportation or time travel are the only 2 answers. You can teleport
|to your relationship partner, or into a bank vault. With time travel
|you can go back and save Abraham Lincoln and kill Hitler and alter
|history forever.
|u/Rublica - 44 minutes
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|I only I would have the superpower, I would choose something to give me
|a healthy body, like a polymorph power our healing power, so I could
|loose my extra weigh and instantly gain some muscles, after that, I
|would simples live my life maintaining my body healthy and living my
|life with the challenges all people have. If everyone else could
|choose a power as well, that would tremendous different: Worst case
|scenario, someone would choose a power to end the world and the
|universe, or to become God. Actually, any superpower you would choose
|would be influenced by another person super power, so my best choice
|would be choosing a power to travel to another dimension equal to ours,
|and bring some people with me, that would be the most important part,
|after that, I could maybe travel some other dimensions and grab some
|fun stuff, but at the end, I would live a normal life knowing I avoid
|the catastrophe of my original dimension.
|u/thelordschosenginger - 19 seconds
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|Ability to give myself any superpower permanently
|u/YourLovelyAriaXoxo - 6 hours
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|Go back in time and bet on the Powerball and skip the whole money
|laundering drama. Easy billions, no shady business. LOL!
|u/TheFlaccidChode - 4 hours
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|Future vision, a couple of lotto wins, a bet here and there in some big
|sporting events and I'll be sorted
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