• merc@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          3 months ago

          Assuming nobody else is immune and has the power to restart it. If someone else did have the power to restart time, I think the thought process would go:

          Bob: “Aha! I have the power to stop time with the snap of my fingers”

          [starts to snap]

          Bob: “Oh wait! What if I’m not immune!”

          [time is frozen]

          Some dude elsewhere: “Weird, time stopped again! I guess I’ll take advantage and rob this bank.” Then, later “Ok, got all the money, now I’ll just crack my knuckles to restart time.”

          [time is unfrozen]

          Bob: “Wait… I just snapped my fingers and time didn’t stop! I guess I don’t have that power at all!”

          • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            That is an amazing story idea! One person has the ability to stop time, someone else somewhere has the ability to start it. They could even have a cat and mouse thing similar to Death Note…

  • waigl@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 months ago

    Imagine the following:

    You actually can stop the time by snapping you fingers, but it stops time for the entire universe, including yourself, with the exception of one single observer on some unimportant planet in the Andromeda galaxy. After 100 years from the POV of that observer, time resumes again.

    Would you even be able to tell?

    • Seraph@fedia.io
      2·
      3 months ago

      Wouldn’t you just keep snapping your fingers, wondering why it wasn’t working? You wouldn’t notice time stopping.

      • Darkmuch@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        We could have a whole vent diagram of people than stop time, start time, or be immune to it. Imagine just going out for drinks with friends when times stops. But this has happened before so you walk across town, go in some dudes living room, and force his fingers to snap.

        “Ah! Oh it’s you. Time stopped again?” “Yup” “Alright. Well hopefully whoever’s stopping time this time doesn’t REALLY like to snap.” “Hopefully. Well might be seeing more of me again. Bye!”

    • Nicht BurningTurtle@feddit.org
      0·
      3 months ago

      No. You would have to snap ~25000 times, for the light originating from there, to even reach you (Assuming, that light is unaffected by the time stop).

      • CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 months ago

        Time not stopping for light, but (almost) everything else, would cause a whole lot of problems. Sounds like a nice scenario for What If

  • Clent@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 months ago

    Alternatively, snapping your fingers stops time but snapping again doesn’t start it back up.

  • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
    1·
    3 months ago

    i used to work in remote tech support. one time i disabled the network adapter on the customers computer that i was remoting into

    • papertowels@lemmy.one
      2·
      3 months ago

      I was tech support in college. I was handed a hard drive to wipe.

      Connect HDD to laptop, load up DBAN, select drive, kick it off. NBD.

      Oops, I selected the laptops os drive…

    • Opisek@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      I work a lot with remote servers. I locked myself out in a similar way once or twice before. I felt like the dumbest person alive every time it happened.

    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      3 months ago

      I changed some of my router’s VPN settings from abroad once because it wasn’t performing as expected.

      To apply the setting (through the GUI), I remembered you had to press the stop button and then the start button (there was no restart button in that menu). Guess what happened.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 months ago

    🙂 you can stop time by snapping your fingers

    💀 you cannot unstop time, and this state will persist until you die, making you lonely for years