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inb4 "if it's legal it's not a crime"

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Crime means breaking the law, correct?

No location is named, so I will assume this refers the laws of physics and reality.

I would:

  • expand time so that it lasts a near infinite duration, contained entirely within this day of no crime
  • transmute a bunch of the rocks in my apartment into gold
  • alter my DNA to include working wings like a bat, a prehensile tail like a monkey, gills like a salamander, enviromental adaptability like a chameleon that's selective so I can hide these enhancements from others
  • one more enhancement related to a very specific part of the anatomy of a horse or blue whale, or whatever it is people want these days
  • remove all genetic defects of my body, like susceptability to cancer and addictions, grant it full immunity to diseases, put it into a perfect equilibrium with near instantaneous regeneration and longevity and thus allowing my life to last as long as I desire
  • create a star from nothing and collapse it in a way that stores all of its energy into a pocket sized battery with perfect functionality and adaptability that is nearly indestructable
  • hold hands with two chicks at the same time

It's fun to dream of the impossible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I know of an exploit on a horribly designed website for a national car park company that would allow me to write a script that would effectively give me and anyone else i know free parking for ever for all car parks administered by this company in the country (which is a lot of car parks).

So i'd do that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I love that you have a very specific and arguably moral crime in mind, and it inspired this post.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Transmitting radio without a license

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

if I still had my last dog then walk her without a leash.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I’d torture the shit it out of the parasite sack of shit that is my landlord

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I keep my head down. No legal consequences isn’t the same thing as no consequences.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Jaywalk then torrent a movie.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

The law does not currently prevent me from doing anything I want to do.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’d go rob the people that made my entire 20’s and 30’s into indentured student loan servitude for exactly the dollar figure they stole from me plus the insane interest that they tacked onto it because they owned politicians who eliminated all avenues that I could’ve used to get out of that contract.

The figure they stole from me: $197,355.49

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Quick question: How does it reach this figure?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It was the CitiAssist.

It had to be a private student loan because my parents made slightly over the max to qualify to public loans even though they refused to pay for school. That left me with loans with insane interest rates. Most of what I had to borrow was to cover $150k to pay rent in the college town I lived in while attending school.

Then, Joe Biden wrote the bankruptcy protection bill, making it impossible for students to disburse their student loans in bankruptcy two years after I graduated. They also refused to allow me to consolidate 8 loans which all had monthly payments that were each intentionally calculated as if it was the only loan I had to pay. Then my loans got bought and moved around and are now owned by Trellis. There’s a lot more to it as well. Housing and healthcare plays a HUGE part.

TLDR; hyper-commodification of basic human needs like education, housing, healthcare, and food coupled with legislation that sentences those that can’t pay their feudal lord up front to a lifetime of serfdom. (Not to mention my union wages barely keeping pace with inflation).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Go shoplift anything I want. Snack/trinket party!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Banksssss! Rob banks! Then use that money to buy snacks forever!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That'd require planning tho.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would steal a single nuclear icbm and take it to a pizza hut and just leave it there. Just seems like it would cause some interesting conversations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

i imagine the engineering required to get an ICBM to a random pizza hut would be worth a conversation too