• @[email protected]
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    103 months ago

    This is to make sure they are not overwhelmed an hour later when the next wish restores their sight permanently.

  • @[email protected]
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    133 months ago

    Jokes on you, I give all blind people 30 seconds of sight once in their life at the single most useful moment. Blind people worldwide regain their sight just in time to avoid accidents, to see their loved ones right before they die, or to save their children from danger.

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      143 months ago

      If they’ve been blind since birth, then their brain might not be capable of processing this completely new stimulus fast enough

      It’d be the equivalent of us being able to “see” magnetic flux using our nipples, for 30 seconds

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        93 months ago

        While I might not be able to see the magnetic flux, I do certainly feel it with my nipples.

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      53 months ago

      Except they might not understand what they see. As a kid I asked a legally blind buddy what he would do if he suddenly could see clearly and he said “probably freak out. Im used to my vision as it is now I don’t know how to do anything as a ‘normal person’”.

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    333 months ago

    What are the three wishes that would cause untold amounts of mental damage to marginalised people without death or permanent changes to their daily life?

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    33 months ago

    “Granted.”

    All blind people get eyesight for 30 seconds at different times while they’re asleep

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    653 months ago

    You’ve left the geanie so much room for interpretation, for example:

    • Take 30 seconds to do the task of giving all blind people eyesight.
    • You didn’t say when these 30 seconds happen. Could be all at once now, but could also be everyone at their last 30 seconds to live.
    • “Eyesight” could mean that there are eyes sighting the blind one. So there’s just someone around that looks at the blind person.
    • You didn’t say that the people have to be alive. So now, they become zombies for 30 seconds. This means somewhere where there’s a living human next to a dead blind human, the living one gets bitten, and the zombie disease can spread.
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    23 months ago

    This is actually very clever. If they lose their sight again after 30 seconds then that is on the Genie’s head. You didn’t say for “only” 30 seconds.