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[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 minutes ago

The ability to make an ability uploading tool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 46 minutes ago (1 children)

being able to inspect/ appraise any item and get comprehensive details about it.

it would be great to spot antiques and famous works from garage/ lawn sales.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 38 minutes ago

Ha! I'm imagining a DC comic book about "appraisal man"!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago

Math, specifically gambling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago

My first thought was also languages, but all the classes for a bachelors in nuclear engineering would be nice. Huge passion of mine and I can't really pursue a degree at this point in my life

[–] [email protected] 1 points 28 minutes ago

How to speak Japanese. I'd move there in a heartbeat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 50 minutes ago

How to fluently speak a foreign language. I'm A2 with French but I could live with Spanish or German as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 32 minutes ago

Auto maintenance and repair

OR

household maintenance and repair; handyman stuff

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Ability to fold a fitted sheet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 35 minutes ago

Poke your hand until you hit the corner of a seam. Do the same with the other hand on an adjacent corner.

Bring hands together so both corners touch.

Now unfold the corner in one hand onto the other hand.

Smooth it out. Repeat with the untouched corners.

You can do it one more time or just fold from there

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago

Playing the piano and other instruments like a master. Music conveys feelings we can’t convey otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

How to people.

I have great ideas and am horrible at explaining them.

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

Rizz download complete

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

I wanted to say how to happy, but I think how to people would fix that as well.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 hours ago

The ability to upload any ability into my mind that I can think of and be amazing at it.

Shashahshaaa!

Runs away and throws pocket sand

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'd love to know how to dance, I mean really properly dance for every situation, not just a generic two foot shuffle. I've seen some people who can dance properly and they looked cool as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

You can dance if you want to!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

we can leave your friends behind!

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

I do, and I love it! But I also need to face the fact that I'm not very good at it 😁

[–] [email protected] 67 points 5 hours ago (8 children)

Polyglotism. Being able to speak every language would be practically a superpower.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

I'd make tens of dollars as the scholar to decode the Harrapan/Indus Valley script!

Or I make makes millions as a YouTuber decoding the Voynich manuscript...

Our society is broken:(

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

This is a neat idea until you're in a situation where you remember 38 different words for a thing, just not the one in the language you need

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 hours ago

I only speak one language fluently and one language extremely poorly.

The number of times I’ve been able to come up with the word I want in my second language and completely blanked on it in my native language baffles my mind.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

If I could 'cheat' and say 'I know every language in the world', and that included programming languages and things like scientific notation as a language, I'd take that in a heartbeat. If not, I'd take programming, as at least then I can create things and make money.

If speaking every language included dead and forgotten languages too though, then it would be a very tough choice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

This sounds very useful until you realize you still don't want to talk to people in any language.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

If it was just one language and writing system as a choice, I might say Japanese.

There are so many different characters in their writing as symbols instead of phonetic sounds, that bookstores in Japan are divided into sections, in which one has books that use... say 500 characters, then another section with books that use 1200 characters, or 5000, or 10,000, or more!
To read Japanese or Chinese with a mastery of over 10,000 symbols might be my choice. The richness and depth of those writings must be something incredible.

My second choice, for shits 'n' giggles, might be something like Sumerian or Akkadian, in the original Cuneiform!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

I can't even imagine how powerful I would be if I could be ignored in every language.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

The rpg munchkin in me hopes polyglot misleading includes computer languages.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

I did Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for a while untill after the 3rd injury I realised this isn't going to be good on the long run and I stopped doing it. However, it was long enough to see what a magical power that is so I'd say that being able to posses the skills of a black belt without going thru the training would be quite nice.

People don't realise how helpless you'll feel trying to wrestle with someone who knows what they're doing. Being bigger and stronger will not save you unless you get really lucky.

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

Tell me it doesn't use alien DNA like In Prey (2017)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Musical ability — perfect pitch, great rhythm. I'm an okay musician after years working at it, but I'd love to be better.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 hours ago

"I know how to make myself do the thing I planned to do."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Sex probably

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

"he's been going all night, he's a machine!"

"....I know healthy emotion regulation"

"...show me"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

maths.

I never had enough brains to not suck at maths.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

Skateboarding. Looks so fun

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

The ability not to forget all things when I grow older.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Deduction, at superhuman speed of course just like neos kung fu speed.
Deduce the optimal stock market traction to gain a big chunk of capital so I can than deduce the best proper services to provide, or find the proper projects

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Mind control.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 28 minutes ago)

The ability to sew anything. I love to binge sewing vids so being able to take some scraps and make cool shit would be amazing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

"I know how to understand and speak every language with the proper accent. Wöáh."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Psychology.

I assume psychology is very useful for social interaction, but complicated and mid-impact enough that I personally wouldn't bother to analog-learn it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Knowing every tree, plant, insect, ...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 7 minutes ago) (2 children)

Yeah, Billy 780164 as I like to call him, is an ant living in the basement in a swedish suburb near the sea, just besides the grass Gras9534795.

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

That ability is known as Dave😁

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

:) not what I intended, but that would be cool too

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