Here's an easy way to kill time: try counting and see how close you can get to 30 billion
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2025
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A billion seconds is approximately 30 years, so probably not very close
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My plan for getting thrown into iso for whatever reason is to paint the sacred geometries in blood so idk that I'm a whole lot better.
I certainly helps to be a lunatic to begin with.
How about I do just a few hours for a pro-rated payout?
I like that Lemmy's first thought is pro-rated payments, and yes, it really does show how much money 30 billion is when you can make millions in an hour. My first thought was, I think I could actually pull out off for the full year.
Most people need some kind of social interaction, including folks with conditions that make that hard. I'm probably not an exception to that but I have learned ways to pass full days of time just story developing and singing and such. Creating characters also helps ward the loneliness, although I think the hardest part is being unable to actually write anything down. I could easily do a year if I had enough paper and a way to draw or write.
At least you wouldn't be alone - hat man is with you 🖤
The reports on the linked wiki page of the use of things like this as torture aside, is there any research / evidence on how things like this affect people who are treated this way voluntarily?
I’ve seen video of someone volunteering to be waterboarded to show that it’s not that bad if you know what’s happening (spoiler—it was still very bad). I’d assume other kinds of psychological torture would be just as hard to deal with, even with full knowledge and consent.
vsauce of all people did a thing on this sort of voluntary sensory deprivation in their series mind field back in 2017. results were not good. michael spent i think three days in a white room with a bed and a box of food, and he was a wreck when he was let out. the loss of any sense of time really fucks with you apparently.
I’ve seen video of someone volunteering to be waterboarded to show that it’s not that bad if you know what’s happening (spoiler—it was still very bad)
Ah yes, renowned edgelord and one of the Four Horsemen of Atheism, Christopher Hitchens
To be fair to him, he didn't think it would be that bad, said as much then tried it. Afterwards he completely changed his point of view and admitted he was wrong.
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And the lights never go out and there is no clock
That is actually recognized as a form of torture.
Yeah, I wanted to point this out as well, glad someone/you linked it.
The memer is basically 'would you get tortured for 30bn monies'?
And the kicker is that people torture other people like this without paying them, often/usually with the tortured not having done anything bad (not that that would justify torture of any kind).
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What about the toilet facilities (or lack there of)?
30 billion and a chance to catch up on sleep? You son of a bitch I'm in.
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a lot of people seem to be assuming solitary confinement, but nothing in the prompt actually indicates you can't have visitors. furthermore, you might have a lightswitch. being able to turn the lights off to sleep and chat with visitors might significantly slow your descent into madness. (though anyone would probably still be pretty fucked up after a year).
Doesn’t the “you have nothing” cover that?
you can't own people.
"you have no books, moovies, phones, consoles. NOTHING."
What if, you know, it's like now and you just pay a subscription for those?
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I'd do it no matter how much it would mess me up, and all that money, except enough to buy a nice house in my city, would be going towards an endowment for a trans charity. Its mission would be multi-faceted, providing direct supports for trans people alongside fighting legal battles. Hopefully that would nullify the contributions of people like J.K. Rowling.