Destroy every factory making glue traps, every fur farm, Palantir, NGO group and the like and maybe tunneling through K Street in DC at high speed
Making the mother of all power vacuums Jack, can’t fret over each billionaire!
Bring my family to safety, destroy every US or proxy owned oilfield, report to marshal kim jong un for further instructions
I would definitely start by sending every NATO leader, every NATO military person, and every unrepentant former NATO military person into the Sun.
Probably do some miracles on national tv and populated areas, then create a new book club. Create sanctuaries for book study groups. Assign leaders across the world from those who protect the people.
This time the book is written using formal logic so it’s impossible to misunderstand and pick and choose what you want to follow. It only provides a logic framework of being kind and empathetic to others, respecting their rights(and what rights are), and consent, etc. This time the book will be timeless with no contradictions.
Then kindly “convince” a couple of billionaires and world leaders to donate 99.9% of their wealth to the new cause. 48 hours are too short to change the world for good. But you can kickstart a brilliant process towards a great future.
I would grab Ceres and ram it into the Earth.
Step 1 - Immediately relocate all Israelis to their country of origin (within prisons) and bring Palestinians back to their land.
Step 2 - Remove the infrastructure maintaining the puppet occupation of Korea.
Step 3 - Remove all weapons from the US/EU and deliver them to communist governments and natives.
Step 4 - Do the same with industrial/technological capacity.
Step 5 - Translate/Copy theory and deliver it to everyone on earth.
Step 6 - Build a bunch of Renewable Energy plants all over the world.
Step 7 - Destroy the Oil industry.
Step 8 - Nap in the sun but lose track of time and lose my powers so I disintegrate.
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Probably I don’t notice the whole time and go along with my standard routine.
I would create my own Groundhog Day set up. Start learning task A. After 47 hours, fly around the earth to rewind time. Learn for another 47 hours. Repeat process. Learn infinity tasks and become a master at everything. On the last loop win the heart of Andie MacDowell.
I can’t conceive of a better answer than this.
Damn, you win.
I’d sleep the two days, nobody would mess with me.
Enact land reform and nationalisation of resources in countries that want it.
Help with infra development.If super intellect is available, then fusion, vaccines and similar stuff. Also setting up some cheap manufacturing of medicines.
Lemmy has some good ideas.
Possibly a world tour of grabbing billionaires and far right politicians, Bibi, Putin, Trump, Le Pen, Musk, Murdoch and all the likes, showing them the messes and human suffering they helped creating and hurling them into space or something.
That’s a pretty good starting list. I don’t know that I’d waste time trying to show them anything; just go straight to disposal.
I, too, was thinking “murder.” It solves only a sort term problem though. Within a few years, you’d just have a new batch.
The system is broken. Capitalism as we practice it is broken; our political systems are broken (some more than others). That won’t be fixed by DXing a bunch of oligarchs.
Counterpoint: Superman is strong enough that he could raze the system to the ground.
You’ll need to make it very visible and very real to as many people as possible, and make it sound credible that “shit like this starts up again, and I’ll be back, be excellent to each other or else”
Remember those found-footage style videos that were going around a decade or so ago, where there was this mysterious figure in black who just appeared and was offing criminals in fairly graphic ways? There was speculation that it was a viral ad for some anti-hero superhero movie, but it never materialized.
That’s the way. Be mysterious. Be featureless. Don’t talk. Give them no way to track you after it wears off: appear, do, disappear. Repeat for 48 hours, then disappear.
I still think it wouldn’t last long. The temptations of power and wealth will override any fear; after year, it’ll be back to business as usual. 5 years later, it’d be mostly forgotten.
Now, if you could parse out 48 hours in 2 hour chunks over 12 years, with a couple of “examples” every year at random times, that might have a lasting effect. Do it 4 years in a row, give it a break for 2 or 3 years and let people think it night be over and strike again… that would probably have a more lasting effect. But I still think, at some point after your powers run out a decade or two at most and the shenanigans would start again. Humans believe what they want to believe, and what they’re best at deluding themselves and is “that can’t happen to me.”
Saved the biggest flame for Australia. Or is it just bushfire season.
Does having superpowers fix my executive dysfunction? Cause if so then like, I dunno, clean my house, catch up on admin, do everything I’ve been unable to do
