• jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    It still weird me out that there are only something like 600 billionaires in the US. This seems like such a solvable problem.

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        2 days ago

        At 5 minutes per execution, it could be done in just over 2 days. If you wanted to ensure that nobody missed any of the event and limited it to 8 hours per day, you could get it done in 1 week.

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        3 days ago

        if we did one per minute, we are looking at about 10 hours of solid thwacks. give or take. im sure we could shave that down by a few seconds per, they are a physically weak people on average. so i imagine we could get it done in half the time if we shave it to 30 seconds per billionaire. and have them all lined up. ready to go.

        thats an afternoon. about 5 hours at 30 seconds a pop.

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          2 days ago

          I appreciate the Silcon Valley-esque efficiency calculation but honestly that’s not a super high requirement. 5 hours, 10 hours, a week, whatever. No need to speed run this thing. Honestly if we were good in a year I’d be thrilled.

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          3 days ago

          Guillotine blades get dull. And they’re kind of heavy.

          So to keep things moving I motion that we set up half a dozen of them. Each one would handle 100 people, which would still absolutely wreck the blade. But that’s a price I’m willing to pay.

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      3 days ago

      Hunger games, billionaire edition, the winner gets a quick death.

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        2 days ago

        Imagine if they dropped all their loot upon death, i would love to see the lootsplosion of money, gems, deeds to property, stock folios and legendary/epic rarity artworks & artifacts.

        Unfortunately very small EXP rewards as they never levelled up through the grind.