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[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 150 points 10 months ago (4 children)

POV: If you're not immune, you wouldn't be able to realize it

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You realize you’re not immune right AS you are in the midst of the act of snapping your fingers

[–] aoidenpa@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And you are stuck in that thought forever.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Assuming nobody else is immune and has the power to restart it. If someone else did have the power to restart time, I think the thought process would go:

Bob: "Aha! I have the power to stop time with the snap of my fingers"

[starts to snap]

Bob: "Oh wait! What if I'm not immune!"

[time is frozen]

Some dude elsewhere: "Weird, time stopped again! I guess I'll take advantage and rob this bank." Then, later "Ok, got all the money, now I'll just crack my knuckles to restart time."

[time is unfrozen]

Bob: "Wait... I just snapped my fingers and time didn't stop! I guess I don't have that power at all!"

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 10 months ago

That is an amazing story idea! One person has the ability to stop time, someone else somewhere has the ability to start it. They could even have a cat and mouse thing similar to Death Note...

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But it’s ok because you don’t realize you’re stuck

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[–] Klear@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I realised that. Must mean I'm immune.

[–] Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I actually think about this. People recognize that time is a dimension of our reality, but ask: why does it only move forward? But wat if it doesn't? What if we go backwards and forwards often? But our memories are "unmade" when moving backwards and "remade" when moving forwards. We simply can only perceive the forward direction.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Yeah, just "you're not immune" would have been better.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 130 points 10 months ago (4 children)

i used to work in remote tech support. one time i disabled the network adapter on the customers computer that i was remoting into

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago

I work a lot with remote servers. I locked myself out in a similar way once or twice before. I felt like the dumbest person alive every time it happened.

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I changed some of my router's VPN settings from abroad once because it wasn't performing as expected.

To apply the setting (through the GUI), I remembered you had to press the stop button and then the start button (there was no restart button in that menu). Guess what happened.

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

average router GUI

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's pretty minor.

I've done some terrible things. That's how you learn (you know what they say, test in prod)

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago

oh i've done other fuck ups too...

e.g. one time i ran

rm -r /* 

on a server.

luckily it was a test server, but i did manage to wipe one of the drives shared across the entire testing cluster with that one

[–] papertowels@lemmy.one 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was tech support in college. I was handed a hard drive to wipe.

Connect HDD to laptop, load up DBAN, select drive, kick it off. NBD.

Oops, I selected the laptops os drive....

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i've done something similar with dd before

[–] higgsboson@dubvee.org 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I once decided to actually use the dread command.

rm -rf /

I was nuking the OS, so fuck it.

Forgot to unmount my data first...

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 64 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Imagine the following:

You actually can stop the time by snapping you fingers, but it stops time for the entire universe, including yourself, with the exception of one single observer on some unimportant planet in the Andromeda galaxy. After 100 years from the POV of that observer, time resumes again.

Would you even be able to tell?

[–] Seraph@fedia.io 75 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Wouldn't you just keep snapping your fingers, wondering why it wasn't working? You wouldn't notice time stopping.

[–] Darkmuch@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

We could have a whole vent diagram of people than stop time, start time, or be immune to it. Imagine just going out for drinks with friends when times stops. But this has happened before so you walk across town, go in some dudes living room, and force his fingers to snap.

“Ah! Oh it’s you. Time stopped again?” “Yup” “Alright. Well hopefully whoever’s stopping time this time doesn’t REALLY like to snap.” “Hopefully. Well might be seeing more of me again. Bye!”

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

It could be happening for real right now and you wouldn't know it.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

You'd notice an angry creature from Andromeda punching you in the face and threatening yo break your fingers tho...

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

No. You would have to snap ~25000 times, for the light originating from there, to even reach you (Assuming, that light is unaffected by the time stop).

[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Time not stopping for light, but (almost) everything else, would cause a whole lot of problems. Sounds like a nice scenario for What If

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If we take this in consideration and assume, that his equivalent of air is also affected and therefore cannot be moved. The affected would be stuck and unable to move and die of asphyxiation in a dark void.

EDIT: Another interesting factor to consider is, that if the affected were able to move, he would have an undefined acceleration due to delta v / 0.

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[–] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I saw a short story about a hero who could stop time but he could only see things he was looking at before he stopped time or was walking towards so only looking directly ahead. It was established by a thought experiment or something that addresses the reader. I really wish I could remember the name of the story but it was so long ago I don’t think I could remember the name even if I heard it

[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Man Who Could Work Miracles by H.G. Wells maybe?

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[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

This hypothetical scenario assumes that stopping time is universal and instantaneous. Simultaneity in two reference frames, even when that doesn't make sense. Someone on earth snaps their fingers, and in that same instant, some unwitting observer spends 100 earth solar cycles in frozen, abject terror.

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[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Time for a calm existence experiencing nothing and going nowhere, never

[–] Clent@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Alternatively, snapping your fingers stops time but snapping again doesn't start it back up.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

🙂 you can stop time by snapping your fingers

💀 you cannot unstop time, and this state will persist until you die, making you lonely for years

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You end up stopping time for yourself and pausing the entire universe indefinitely

[–] SinkingLotus@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Eventually, Kars stopped thinking.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"OP will come to a brutal realization that time marches on and has no master .. in the twilight zone"

[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

I read it as you realize you are not alone and that made it far creepier

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Here's a question, would you even be aware? Does one's awareness supersede time?

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The more I think about existence and awareness the less I understand about them. Why the hell am I here?

This shit keeps me at night.

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I think I believe that it's all the brain. You can change someone's personality entirely through accidental injury or intentional damage/medication.

And existence is just all chance. I used to desire more from everything but now I think humans are just another animal who developed a different evolutionary strategy and life is merely another means for entropy. Not to say it's not unique, but the value of it is only what we determine it is to ourselves.

[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 2 points 10 months ago

Same energy as "does god exist? We'll know when we die"

[–] paholg@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Jones on you, I can't snap my fingers.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] durfenstein@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I think this image would work perfectly fine without the second line and just the picture

[–] Muffi@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don't give them any ideas. So many universes ended this way.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 months ago

In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and is widely considered a bad move.

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[–] linkshulkdoingit69@lemmy.nz 2 points 10 months ago

Jesus Christ how horrifying

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