• samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    “Granted.”

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

  • Speiser0@feddit.org
    644·
    3 days 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.
      • Speiser0@feddit.org
        2·
        1 day ago

        I had troubles understanding the meaning of your monkey hand, and I’m still pondering over it. Is it some idiom I don’t know? Could you pls give me some explanation? 🥺 👉👈

        • beejboytyson@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 day ago

          Money paw, it’s and an old story that’s based on the premises of the Faustian bargain. You get your wish but with a self defeating side effect.

          IE a million dollars in you back account but you lost all the login info.

        • Flames5123English
          4·
          2 days ago

          You just brought back a memory of this wild game. Thank you!

    • blackn1ght@feddit.uk
      9·
      3 days ago

      30 consecutive seconds or could it be 1 second, x30?

      Doesn’t say the quality of the eyesight, it could be just barely above the legal definition of blindness

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
      32·
      2 days ago

      Or who’s eyesight it gives.

      Each blind person gets horrifying deep sea fish eyesight or the eyesight of someone committing murder and now they all are thought to be hallucinating.

    • LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee
      3·
      3 days ago

      Not to mention it doesn’t say only 30 seconds so if all blind peoples eyesight is restored for at least 30 seconds then the genie could just restore it forever.

    • BakkodaEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Last point: You now have corrupted blood. Teleports back to Org

      • LazerFXEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        LOL! Blast from the past… Dead n00bs scattered everywhere.

  • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online
    32·
    3 days 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?

  • Gastel@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    2 days 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.

    • smeenz@lemmy.nzEnglish
      51·
      2 days ago

      30 days…just enough to get tests and start to change their life.

  • blackstampede
    132·
    3 days 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.

    • Lightfire228@pawb.social
      15·
      3 days 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

    • RowRowRowYourBotEnglish
      52·
      3 days 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’”.