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Think of like world leaders, celebrities, ya know ๐Ÿ˜‰. Are you gonna make them do some embarassing things, or illegal acts.

My answer:

spoilerTake control of an NSA agent with access to the most powerful hacking tools, hack everyone's phone, install a program that randomly have a popup at random intervals, the popup message says "I'm watching you". This also tries to spread itself to any other phone it can connect to. Pure chaos ๐Ÿ˜ˆ

Pretty sure I can do this in a minute, depending on how good the NSA tools are.

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Do a whole lot of research, then take control of the president, and pardon people for a minute. As far as I'm aware, it takes effect as long as someone hears, or I write it down or something.

[โ€“] Stern@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Inb4 and during Trump + gun

Nah, won't do shit except cause more chaos and Vance would invoke insurrection act. Not remotely worth it.

Have Musk denounce trump would make it more funny.

[โ€“] Stern@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Vance doesn't have Trumps cult so he wouldn't be able to get away with any sort of Trump stuff. He'd try of course, but deffo get a lot more pushback.

[โ€“] aramis87@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

Vance is an opportunist and would cheerfully go along with the Project 2025 folks in order to be their figurehead and grab a bunch of loot. And they'd be happy to have him as a figurehead, so long as he does what they tell him to.

[โ€“] stinerman@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The actual problem here is that it's not clear when he will be near a gun to the point that someone could do that. You only have a minute. Is Trump within a minute's range of a gun and would not be stopped by his security detail if he tried to use it?

[โ€“] Stern@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

My thought process is: Turn to security guy, say, "gib gun plz, pres order". Offhand I dunno if they'd comply, but worth a shot (see what i did there?)

[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The person who approves or denies new shows on Netflix or something and then spend the next minute approving as many animated shows as I can.

Probably one of musks 50 body guards.

[โ€“] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I would control King Charles and have him order the dissolution of the empire.

[โ€“] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can that include the end of the monarchy itself, please? ๐Ÿ‘

That would be nice too.

[โ€“] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd control Biden and have him do his job by executing the traitors that are a legitimate threat to the US constitution.

[โ€“] Wiz@midwest.social 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It would only take a minute to issue the order

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[โ€“] Nemo@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The only people it would be ethical to use this on are those in permanent vegetative states... and myself.

I think I'd opt for one minute of true self-control. Maybe I could overclock myself or something. Never know until you try.

[โ€“] j4k3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Nice job of spotting the philosophical.

I say doctors should have a way to do this with patients to deterministically diagnose a person, (with consent of course). I'd do that in a heartbeat with my chronic issues.

Biden: order seal team to take out any and all known associates to the MAGA movement. Do this under extreme secrecy and urgency, using all classified information related. Also any controlling parties to the GOP and DNC.

Mitch first for old times sake.

[โ€“] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Make someone edit the balance of my bank account. I think you can buy a lot of things, including further immoral services with cash. I hope there is someone who can do it in 1 minute and doesn't require any review by other people.

[โ€“] palordrolap@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

This would undoubtedly backfire just like that TikTok "hack" that happened a while ago. (If you're out of the loop, it boiled down to writing yourself a bad cheque for a ridiculous amount, and then spending the money that appeared in your account before it bounced. Presto! Cheque fraud! Bad things are coming to you soon!)

"We're sorry to inform you that you have spent money wrongly credited to your account. You now owe us all that money back and we've slapped on a 100% interest rate for good measure. You could fight this in court, but we have more money than Croesus, so you'll lose. Sincerely YourBank Inc."

[โ€“] Mango@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I didn't care how pretty she is. I need more than a minute.

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[โ€“] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

To OP and others giving similar answers; ok, so you take control of the person...

Do you actually know how to do the things you say?

Using OP as an example, do you know how to use those hacking tools? Do you know how to go about hacking everyone's phone? Because otherwise the only thing you'll have access to for a minute is whatever is in arms reach of said NSA agent.

Shhhh if every movie director thought about movie plots deeper, we'd have 90% less movies. ๐Ÿ˜‰

[โ€“] sasquash@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

I don't think it's possible to pull that off. There might be tools to send SMS to every active number but figuring out how that software works takes way more than 1min. Even if you also get the knowledge there might be several security measures in place, like additional approvement before sending.

I would control Putin and check the famous russian window.

[โ€“] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago
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