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[–] communist@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

Buy a house, start my reptile projects, throw extras at the fediverse, the fediverse succeeding is very important long-term.

[–] Helix@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'd buy myself a few mercenary armies and state armies as well as weapon manufacturers and just stop selling weapons and waging war. These people probably have skills as drivers or watchmakers, so Glock would start making watches and Wagner would be a chauffeur service.

I'll probably still have a division special force to take guns away from everyone in the world but police force in Democratic governments. As soon as they fulfilled their purpose, they'd have to hand in their guns to the local police.

My hypothesis is that every person with a gun is willing to part from it for the right price. And the others just have to go, I guess.

[–] OrkneyKomodo@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Leave my job & go and see the world. Possibly by finishing off my sailing quals & buying a luxury catamaran or trimaran.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 years ago
[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Dump all of it into researching how to grow tardigrades larger, until they are big enough to take down a fully grown man. Then build up an army of them and unleash them on the world.

With my tardigrade army giving me complete control over the world, I will begin enacting my ultimate goal:

Making that bitch Sarah pay for making fun of me in primary school.

"Fuck you" Sarah.

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

It's definitely a tie between buying and remodeling a house in the city I live in (probably in one of the nicer areas in town but definitely not the nicest because I don't want to deal with stuck up prick neighbors who'd think they're better than me) and just going on an art commission spree of getting a red sheet for my fursona and then getting a very high quality partial fursuit and clothes to match his style.

[–] Boondock@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Hire a permanent live-in nanny so wife and I could sleep soundly and stress less.

That’s first, the rest I would take time and decide and tell no one except the wife

[–] eunuchkim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

probably spend it on a bunch of landscaping for my parents yard to turn it into a "no lawn" (I fking hate mowing the lawn)

Same. NoLawns doesn't have to be expensive though. Just takes time.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 2 years ago

Disappear and become someone else.

[–] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Pay off my mom's house and get it completely renovated, included hooking it up to the sewer line and completely redoing the foundation. I'd also add a second story with a balcony facing the direction of the ocean.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 4 points 2 years ago

Buy a nice reasonably big house, set money aside for my kid, buy a new car, help people close to me. In this order.

[–] DriftingMangoes@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Fire Fest 2

[–] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I would build myself a mansion like the Le chΓ’teau de Moulinsart in Tintin.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not tell anyone and see how little work I can do at work before they fire me. I bet I could even get promoted.

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[–] MTK@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Buy a gaming PC and a VR headset, and then put all the money in investments and quit my job.

[–] ext23@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

First thing I would do? Without question a year-long holiday. I haven't had more than a few days off at a time for over five years.

[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

pay my debts, a full medical workup, some minor dentistry, then invest wisely after getting some financial advice from a professional advisor because I don’t really know what I’m doing.

[–] supermurs@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

I'd pay my debts first and then travel.

[–] timmytbt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

There are a number of people I would need to say β€œfuck you β€œ to

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

I’d buy the condo my wife and I are renting. We really love it and the owner wants to sell it, but our monthly payment would almost triple.

Id also get a modest car, like a Corolla and a house in the countryside.

I guess this is not too wild, so I guess I’d also by a server rack to selfhost random stuff.

[–] pax27@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago
[–] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 years ago

Buy a house I like better. Get some large windows, better insulation throughout the house, some small degree of soundproofing between first and second floor, and pay for some serious landscaping in our yard.

[–] ItsMeForRealNow@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Pay someone to organize all my stuff and buy the proper closets, boxes, etc everything. And bring my mom to where I live and give her a better life.

[–] JakeHimself@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Pay off the debt of everyone in my family

[–] shawn@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Not sure how much money that is, but I would start a "quiet landscaping" company that used reel mowers instead of gas mowers, rakes instead of leaf blowers, and I would undercut every landscaping company in my town just to promote the idea of a quiet neighborhood.

[–] 77slevin@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Pay the new car I just signed for, buy a teardrop trailer and go camping out in Europe.

[–] croobat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Pay my parents retirement.

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