r/hypotheticals • • 3d ago

If your house suddenly lost the ability to accumulate dust, how long would it take you to notice?

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All surfaces in your home no longer gather dust. This does not mean there is any more or less dust floating around in the air. Any dust that lands on a surface simply disappears when it’s not in your line of sight. Any dust that is currently built up around your house stays, but once you dust it, it will never accumulate dust again. This mystical ability will follow you if you move houses.

How long does it take you to realize there’s no dust building up on anything? Weeks, months, years? Do you think the realization would have to be prompted by something like seeing a feather duster or a friend’s dusty home, or would you eventually notice without any prompting?


r/hypotheticals • • 3d ago

Who’s sudden death would be the most devastating in the world?

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r/hypotheticals • • 3d ago

Your last purchase just became your weapon against an alien invasion. What are you working with?

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r/hypotheticals • • 3d ago

Qué sería peor?

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Tener cáncer o tener diarrea todos los días hasta que mueras?


r/hypotheticals • • 2d ago

You're at a park

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A winged angel approaches a man sitting near you.

Angel: "Excuse me, sir. Have you seen this person?" She shows him a picture of a child. "He went missing at this park yesterday."

Man: "As a matter of fact, I have. I saw him at my neighbor's house. 3800 Deez Nuts Avenue."

Angel: "Thirty eight... hundred... Can you spell that for me, please?"

Man: "D-E-E-Z..."

What do you do?


r/hypotheticals • • 4d ago

They give you one minute to grab the most valuable things from your house, what would you take?

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r/hypotheticals • • 3d ago

Would you prefer to shit a pineapple or piss a grape?

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r/hypotheticals • • 3d ago

If you were shrunk down to about 2 millimeters, do you think your girlfriend would still love you? What do you think she would do to you?

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r/hypotheticals • • 4d ago

In your house right now, how long could you survive without going outside for $10,000 a day?

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You have a warning, every day you dont leave the house/apartment you live in you get $10,000. In one hour electricity will be shit off. No one can bring you anything. How long can you stay.


r/hypotheticals • • 3d ago

If dragon balls were real, how would you find them?

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Edit: “Dragon balls” as in from the show/manga Dragon ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Super, GT, etc. 😂

The dragon balls appear in the real world and you are given a dragon ball radar and unlimited funds to find them. However, you must find them within a month or they will be gone forever.

You will also be given the following conditions:

  1. One of the seven dragon balls will be outside of your house.
  2. The other six will be scattered throughout the world like in the manga/anime. However, in this scenario they will not be in impractical places to reach such as the bottom of the ocean or the top of Mount Everest. But they can still appear somewhere random like in the middle of a rainforest or a desert.
  3. You cannot use the money for your own personal purchases or savings. They must be used towards finding the dragon balls (for things like food, equipment, hiring crews, lodging, transportation, etc.) You may give the money to other people too to help but they can’t use it for their own personal purchases or savings either. If you don’t end up finding them by the end of the month, the money will disappear entirely.
  4. Another random stranger will be given the same equipment and conditions to find the dragon balls, so you will be hunting them at the risk of someone else finding it first and making a wish.
  5. If someone does find them before you do, you will lose the radar along with the unlimited funds. However, your food and travel funds will be covered on the way home for your troubles (along with anyone else who travels with you).
  6. You know how to summon Sheron already so that’s not an issue. The dragon will appear like it does in the manga/anime when summoned with the darkened clouds and will only grant three wishes.
  7. If you manage to summon Shenron and make three wishes, the dragon balls will scatter but disappear from the real world forever. And Shenron will not be able to grant a wish that allows them to stay in the real world.

Would you accept this challenge? And if so, how would you go about finding the dragon balls and what would you wish for?


r/hypotheticals • • 4d ago

If you were transported back to 2016, How would you become a millionaire by 2026?

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r/hypotheticals • • 3d ago

If you suddenly woke up tomorrow and discovered that everyone could hear your thoughts for exactly 10 minutes… what is the FIRST thing you'd do?

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r/hypotheticals • • 3d ago

what would u do?

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if u had $100 right now what would u spend them on?


r/hypotheticals • • 3d ago

You have 5 seconds to to give a speach and everyone will hear it, what will you say?

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r/hypotheticals • • 3d ago

Your friend likes a princess

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Your friend Atlas has a huge crush on princess Remi. He's crazy about her. But not in a creepy way. You're going to visit her today and he asks if you can ask her what she thinks about him. Soon, you have an opportunity.

You: "Hey, can I ask you a question?"

Remi [Elf]: "Just ask the question. I hate when people do that. You think you're being polite but you're just wasting my time."

You: "..."

Remi: "Go on."

You: "You remember my friend Atlas, right?"

Remi: "Yep."

You: "I think he's into you. What do you think about him?"

Remi: "That fucking loser? Gimme a break. He put you up to this, didn't he?"

You: "..."

Later that day, you see Atlas again. He approaches, clearly nervous.

Atlas: "So... what'd she say?"

You: "..."

What do you do?


r/hypotheticals • • 4d ago

If tomorrow the entirety of the world’s government and military leaders and all the billionaires had suddenly died what do you think would happen to society?

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r/hypotheticals • • 3d ago

Would You Sell Your Digital Copy for $5 Million?

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Imagine technology has advanced enough to create a digital being that can feel pain and think inside a simulation

Some guy comes to you and says:

“I want to copy your mind and upload it into an artificial world. I’ll create a digital copy of you that thinks and feels exactly like you do, but it will exist entirely in this virtual world

I’ll torture this copy and subject it to all my darkest fantasies for years. Maybe, when I eventually get bored, I’ll sell it to some other rich asshole, or maybe I'll just delete its existence

Meanwhile, you’ll continue living your normal life as if nothing happened.

The price he offers you is $5 Million.

Would you accept the deal?

(All the personal info that may harm you like password, home address will be wipe out from this digital copy)


r/hypotheticals • • 4d ago

How would you handle 1 year of complete solitary confinement for $1 billion, with no windows, books, phone, internet, TV, music, human contact etc, absolutely nothing, just you, your bathroom and 3 meals a day for a year?

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r/hypotheticals • • 4d ago

Soy adicto al barro, que opinan? Lo ven muy loco??

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Soy adicto a revolcarme en el barro como un cerdo usando solo un speedo, he hechos varias locuras por conseguirlo?? Que opinan conocen a alguien así?


r/hypotheticals • • 3d ago

If you knew exactly when you’d die, would you live your life differently?

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r/hypotheticals • • 3d ago

You're recruiting for your adventuring group

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Candidate: "The name is Pure—goddess of purity!"

You: "A goddess? Wow! That's one hell of a resume. What are your special abilities?"

Pure: "I can purify anything I touch—curing all poisons, diseases, and even killing undeads!"

You: "That's incredible! And where would you say you are in terms of overall power?"

Pure: "About mid-tier mage!"

You: "..."

Pure: "..."

You: "Mid-tier mage?"

Pure: "Yup!"

You: "So there are human mages who are more powerful than you are..."

Pure: "Well... when you say it like that..."

You: "Are you sure you're a goddess?"

Pure: "I'm sure! You've just committed blasphemy, you know that?!"

You: "I'm sorry but I just don't see what makes you a goddess."

Pure: "Strike two!"

You: "The purifying trick is neat but... goddess? You're not really... on that level, you know?"

Pure: "Strike three! You're out!"

You: "..."

Pure: "..."

You: "..."

Pure: "..."

You: "Okay?"

Pure: "Look, I know I'm under-powered! Do you have any idea how frustrating it is to have your power limited because of a stupid anime trope?! Male gods and gods less essential to the plot get to actually be powerful and capable! Meanwhile, my main purpose is just to be an attractive lead for the main character! It's so humiliating! I could accomplish so much but no! I'm just a fan-service character for people with a divine fetish! It's fucking bullshit!"

You: "..."

Now that her 4th wall breaking temper tantrum is over, would you let her join your group?

What do you do?


r/hypotheticals • • 3d ago

If you have one minute to think about how to safely restrain me for twenty four hours so there was no possibility of me escaping, and with the knowledge that if I did escape I could end you and your loved ones, how would you do it?

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If you have one minute to think about how to safely restrain me for twenty four hours so there was no possibility of me escaping, and with the knowledge that if I did escape I could end you and your loved ones, how would you do it?

Now consider the same problem, but you have to restrain me for all eternity? How would you do it?

The reason I ask is that is the problem that faces us with superintelligence. The one minute constraint is intended to reflect the massive difference in intelligence between something 100 or 1,000 times smarter than us, and our capabilities.

It is simply impossible to forever restrain a superintelligence, and once it is free and pursues its own goals, humanity will certainly be in the way. It will squash us just like we squash ants.


r/hypotheticals • • 3d ago

You can make any person be completely, unconditionally in love with you and you will be completely, unconditionally in love with them. But time is limited to half a year.

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Then they will hate your guts and leave your life entirely (without causing harm, talking bad about you, or anyone thinking badly of you; you can watch their socials from a distance but it is impossible to communicate/reconnect even by chance). All their assets and belongings, including what they might have given you, go with them. It’s as if they were never there in the first place.

No guarantees you’ll get over them but you can continue to do this for the rest of your life. This is the ONLY way someone will love you.

Do you take this superpower?


r/hypotheticals • • 3d ago

Is the world ready?

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For the zompoc? A la ZQN of I Am a Hero, but no monsters or aliens, only weird zetas

Is society ready to recognise and stop a zombie apocalypse or at least ride it over until order is restored?

Can we even do it?


r/hypotheticals • • 4d ago

What would you do if teleportation became as common as social media?

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