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I would wish for the following.

I wish that everyone in my family slowly over two years gets into then stays in decent shape for the rest of their lives.

I wish that everyone in my family gets success, but keeps most of our anonymity.

I wish that pollution (including co2) was reversed to pre industrial revolution levels, this means that all material causing pollution is transformed back into raw material, so all excess co2 would be transformed back into what it was before, oil/coal/wood, suddenly we would have a clean planet, full of natural resources and modern technology, as well as an understanding of climate change, we would get a second chance, but with an enourmous jumpstart.

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  1. For learning to be easier for everyone, so humanity can grow wiser.
  2. For kind acts to extend people’s lives, so humanity will grow kinder.
  3. For the afterlife to be as perfect as promised, so we can see them again after a life of kind wisdom.
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what’s the monkey paw mechanic I’m confused

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In a short story, the monkey’s paw is an artifact that grants three wishes of the person who holds it, albeit in the worst way possible.

The story goes that a pensioner and his wife receive the paw from some guy who warns them that the paw twists the wishes, but they pay the warning no mind and wish for a sum of money. A finger on the paw curls, and a factory foreman shows up with the money explaining that their son has died of a horrific mutilating accident in the factory. The insurance policy pays the money out to the surviving members of the family.

The wife wishes that their son were alive again, another finger curls, and a few hours later they hear another knock at the door. The wife rushes to welcome their son, however, recalling the stranger’s warning and imagining how terrifying the mutilated body of their son might look, the father uses the last finger to wish the son dead and buried again. Incidentally, there doesn’t appear to be a negative on that wish apart from the horror that’s already been visited on them.

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I wish you hadn’t asked that

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  1. To never need
  2. I can say no to anything.
  3. I get to be in the top 10% of income for nothing.
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Two chicks at the same time

Not sure about the third wish

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That’s … that’s what you’d do with three wishes? Two chicks at the same time? Couldn’t you do that without three wishes?

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You haven’t seen my horribly disfigured body. I’d probably need all three wishes for it.

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