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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 10 hours ago

Go to all the Republican party conventions and give everyone a warm handshake.

That's for everyone's benefit. Me, I would just go grab levels and stack them in a box.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Get distracted and scratch my nose.

[–] chainysawrs@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Turn my microplastic collection I’ve been hoarding in my body into gold.

[–] mrfriki@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

The man with the gilded crotch…

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 10 hours ago

...not touch my....shit I touched it, didn't I?

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 14 hours ago

Goldmember...

[–] tomi000@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

Touch all the CEOs I can get my hands on

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd "make a golden tree statue", sell it for crypto, buy trump coins with it, go to his dinner, and shake his hand.

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I like this plan. The first half made me hate it, which is a pretty good sign it's hitting the right key points of environmental destruction, profiteering, crypto, bad crypto and buying influence, but then brings it back right at the end.

You're going to have to be careful not to touch anything at the dinner before shaking hands, you wouldn't want to give the game away too early.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

You've got a point, I should probably just touch a rock and start the thing with that instead of a poor tree.

[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Starve to death, probably. Isn't that what happened to King Midas?

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I mean, there's the time period where your not starving to death but, ya, you probably ded.

I mean I don't see how you couldn't do a feeding tube other than it's going to be not great pulling that sucker out.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So does air, or the thing you're sitting on.

I imagine depending on the rules, this would turn the whole world into a gigantic gold ball, which would then collapse into a black hole or something.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 4 hours ago

Depending on the rules, exactly does this magic conserve mass? Uranium would get bigger, cotton candy would shrink to a flake? All of the air in the world weighs 5.5 quadrillion tons. A ton of gold is 16.5 cubic inches, or 270 cm³ - so a block about the length of your foot plus a bit per side 5.5 quadrillion of those - a 1,487 cubic km block.

I'd choose to shape it into a giant pyramid, which would minimize how much it sinks into the crust, and look cool AF for the 130-odd seconds it takes everyone to asphyxiate because we're staring at a giant gold pyramid made from the matter that used to be the atmosphere.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 4 hours ago

Ice-IX. From the book, not the real stuff discovered after the book.

[–] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 11 hours ago

You made me check the average density of earth and, yeah, good is 4x denser than that. I'm not sure about the black hole thing, though. Would it be enough mass to collapse or would it just sit there?

Can you catch grapes in your mouth? We need more details on the rules.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago
[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

High five a certain gold loving narcissist

[–] Squorlple@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

It would be fitting that his hand would be stuck upright in that “awkward hand gesture”

[–] gon@lemm.ee 3 points 20 hours ago

Lead. Alchemy baby.

[–] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Get a pair of chain mail gloves. Put them on and they turn to gold and still function as gloves.

Then wear my gold gloves around at will, using my gold touch to further materials science.

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago

Gold can be weaved, just get a pair of cotton or silk gloves. They'll be lighter.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

Chain mail is already heavy and you want to make it gold?

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Turn everyone I hate into gold and then melt them down and make golden urinals out of them.

Found trumps account

[–] Archangel1313@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

this certain mike myers movie was in my head when i read the prompt.

where though, i cannot say

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I would attend political rallies and be sure to be up front for shaking hands.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

I want to say I'd strategically accrue wealth and use it to make the world a better place, but realistically I'd probably just end up running around turning random stuff into gold and totally crashing the gold market.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago

Masturbation is out so, probably something productive.