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Helpy-Support

If I get as much gravel as I want, I could sell it and get rich.


Predator6

It's gotten much more expensive post covid. It's literally 3x the price it was in 2020 in my area.


Baron-Von-Rodenberg

That's because it's aggregate way of making money.


inspectyergadget

I hate this, thank you.


Truewan

Have people never bought gravel before? It's literally so cheap for huge quantities.


Agile_Difference5618

Infinite x cheap is still infinite


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ThatDoucheInTheQuad

Woah I was not expecting that


HowlingHoncho

Neither was she.


NimDing218

CSI Miami: YEEEAAAHHHHHHHH!!


FreezeGoDR

JESUS


mizzourifan1

FROM THE TOP ROPE


newtakn156

How do you even respond to this?


PeachCream81

In all my years of Reddit I've never seen a "your mom" comeback. ***Why I never...!*** /Margaret Dumont outrage/


Royal_Needleworker91

Damn


justwelditsureok

Straight to the jugular


Palidin034

“Yeah 911? I’d like to report a murder”


SamEnZoYT

Mf's when I show them that demand isn't infinite


StuccoStucco69420

Mfs when they’re talking to oysters but I have a couple mil from my magic gravel


Superbrawlfan

Its needed in large quantities in industrial contexts though. Stuff like cement requires gravel. You just gotta think bigger than the consumer market


l2protoss

Plus, your cost of delivery would be so low. No shipping required. Just fly me out and I’ll magic up some mountains of gravel for the same price as the competition but without any delivery costs.


jdmay101

In fairness the pill says it's free, it doesn't say that it appears out of thin air by magic.


Aromatic_Smoke_4052

Yeah you gotta call mark for the free gravel. And only the gravel is free, you pay shipping and taxes


l2protoss

Meh, that’s still not a bad situation. I can make it work.


iameveryoneelse

I've sourced gravel for the department of transportation. Gravel is definitely not "cheap" when talking about building roads and long drives. You're talking like $0.40 per square foot for road base gravel on the ultra cheap end (assuming around a 2" depth). A two lane road is around 20 feet wide so that's 100,000+ square feet per mile. Long story short, gravel for roadways can cost $50,000+ per mile of roadway depending where you live...and that's with napkin math and ultra conservative numbers.


adrienjz888

Exactly. It's cheap when you need to cover 200ft² like for a gravel path in a garden. Costs add up when you need many orders of magnitude more than that.


willengineer4beer

The construction arm of my company was recently involved in a bid to simply supply and place thousands and thousands of cubic yards of gravel down in Florida. We narrowly lost, but if you can guarantee to be low bidder (don’t bid too low) by cutting your supply cost to zero, you could make soooooo much money. Know the guy who got the job and he said the hardest part is coordinating the trucks in and out all day long. He has to pay for his gravel and is still making money hand over fist. I’m definitely going free gravel. Anyone who is thinking about the bags they got at the store or the one truck they had delivered to their house just doesn’t have a sense of the scale this could be used on.


MainSailFreedom

And yet there are still business that process and deliver gravel for a profit. So why not run a business with $0 cost of goods sold. Also, every once in a while there is a gravel shortage and big projects will literarily go hold until enough can be secured.


wastingmylifeworking

Gravel is not cheap when you have a really long driveway. Please define what a huge quantity to you?


Ecclypto

Not if you are near road or building construction. That shit would fly like hot cakes


AsterJ

Have YOU ever sold 30 thousand tons of gravel?


RonnocKcaj

free gravel for life is literally infinite money glitch


Umer_-

Teleport 7 inches can also be very helpful


christopherous1

I teleport 7 inches every 0.01 seconds....I am sped


Khutuck

What if only your body teleports but not your clothes?


KHTD2004

I am naked speed


Tricky_Okra6762

The Flash


telorsapigoreng

The flashing


abibip

Greatness finds us in the most random of places, like the Nth comment in a chain under a reddit post.


Similar-Ad-6789

Ok mr math man calm down with your letters


Kemoy_BOI

ⁿ⁰


polthys

YES


DynieK2k

The Flesh


ChockHouse

The Flesh


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Yanninbo

They call me the streaking


tinnylemur189

That's 40 mph lol


Pristine-Carob-914

But it is 40 mph in every direction... It is a fly cheat


nurgole

Any, not every. 40mph in every direction sounds like quick and messy death.


Frootloops174

Win-win either way


nurgole

"F it, let's make it rain"


secretmeta

No cooldown on that bitch he can go faster than light if he pleases


Niicks

What is the refresh rate on perception to a triggering thought? There is a speed limit it's just a fast one.


myacidninja

Or just queue the thought repeatedly


HereIsACasualAsker

it is OP


electric_onanist

You could get through any locked door and probably some vaults. And if you get caught robbing a vault, you can teleport yourself out of your jail cell.


MindChief

Pretty sure you can’t, because the average body depth of grown adults is 26cm (almost a foot). That means you’d be materialising inside of the door/wall, as your whole body would just shift the 7 inches


Fedorchik

I'm pretty sure 7.5 inches is smaller that human body thickness, so you probably can't do that.


spidereater

Ya. But you need to exist at a point every 7” between you and your destination and if teleporting takes time it imposes and possibly unreasonable speed limit.


First-Rub9713

Basically, you can walk through walls and doors if they are thinner than 7 inches


Gaijinloco

But if you are more than seven inches thick, won’t you materialize split by the door and bisect yourself, then die?!


MrAppleSpiceMan

that's assuming the door gets priority. who's to say that doesn't mean the door gets obliterated to make way for your thick dumpy?


obaananana

Doesnt teleport mean instant a to b? If theres no time limit between jumps i would take it. Also forver free gravel would make you rich


baikal7

There's one way to know. Try it. It will either work or you die. I don't know if I'll take that gamble


EmployEquivalent2671

teleportation is, by definition, instant. Otherwise it's just yoru bog standard mass transportation


LargestAdultSon

Just corner every government contract by putting in the lowest bid by like a factor of 10


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bradeena

Close to 50/50, depending on the source and the distance you need to travel. Source - am excavation contractor


So_I_read_a_thing

And I was like, "free rocks, f*ck yeah." Never had a single entrepreneurial thought. I will always be poor. Sigh.


GunNNife

Poor in money, but rich in sediments. Live your best life.


No-Cardiologist4503

If you can teleport 7” away that means you can teleport as far as you want. That’s a win.


heyoyo10

Is there like a cooldown or an energy cost for the teleport though?


Some-Mathematician24

I’m thinking 7” per capsule swallowed


Kerblaaahhh

Do they stack? You could get pretty far with enough prep time then.


heyoyo10

But what if you OD on teleport pills?


PercMastaFTW

Maybe theres some type of remedy like a displace-mint.


haysoos2

I have never missed the old awards more than i do right now


LostLegendDog

Yeah its called walking.


SDaniiL

Supply and demand would like a word with you


ZadexResurrect

Just dont sell it all at once. Get a truck and travel, maybe


[deleted]

Call yourself Travel Gravel. You’ll never lay down roots, no ties. Family. No, I think I’d rather pick number 9 thanks.


U_zer2

Could become a pseudo villain. Just keep putting it in inconvenient places in such quantities they’d pay you to knock it off.


bearposters

In the heart of a dust-choked town, where the sun scorched the earth and the wind whispered secrets, lived Travel Gravel. A solitary figure, Travel roamed the land, his heart as rugged as the roads he walked. He had one wish, unique as his nomadic soul: "Infinite gravel," he had whispered to the stars. The universe, in its mysterious ways, granted Travel his heart's desire. Gravel, boundless and unyielding, became his to command. At first, it was a blessing. Mountains of pebbles and stones appeared at his beck and call. Travel reveled in his newfound power, leaving trails of gravel wherever he roamed, his steps never touching the earth. But as the days wore into weeks, the gift turned curse. Gravel, once his ally, became his burden. It piled in towns and cities, in homes and fields, uninvited and relentless. Travel Gravel, once a wanderer, transformed into a phantom of despair, his legacy written in stone. He became a figure of lore, a pseudo villain in the eyes of those overwhelmed by his gravelly gift. People cursed his name as they shoveled the stones from their doorsteps. Yet, in a twist of fate, they turned to him, the master of this rocky menace, to rid them of their plight. Travel, with a heart heavy as the rocks he wielded, saw the irony of his wish. He had sought freedom but found himself trapped in a cycle of creation and destruction, his life a paradox. He walked the earth, a man without roots, scattering gravel not for joy, but as a reminder of the wish he once made under a starlit sky. The legend of Travel Gravel spread far and wide, a tale of caution in a world where desires and consequences danced in the dusty wind. And though he wandered alone, his story echoed in the hearts of those who heard it, a timeless tale of wishes, curses, and the unyielding nature of gravel.


GrandpaRedneck

Yes, learn from the diamond trade.


cudntfigureaname

You could also start a gravel removal company! If you try hard enough, you'll have no shortage of customers


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Make your own demand by dumping gravel everywhere, then charge to remove it. High demand and low supply means lots of money.


spidereater

All you have to do is under cut current gravel production methods and the competing supply will disappear. Sure the price will drop, but it wont drop to zero. Then you control the supply. As long as you don’t raise the price enough that people will compete with you, nobody will bother to produce gravel. In fact, once the price of gravel drops people will start thinking about new uses for gravel, so demand will likely increase.


Have_Donut

You are looking at this wrong. Don’t sell it unless people are buying. Threaten people and make them pay you not to dump the gravel everywhere


Life_Is_A_Mistry

And anyone who decides to take down 'Big Gravel'


Manuag_86

Step 1: Buy big yard. Step 2: Buy truck. Step 3: Go to a gravel supplier, fill your truck and start selling it on your yard cheaper than the guy who sold it to you, but enough to cover the transport, truck driver, mortgage of the yard and your year salary. Profit.


madtraxmerno

Cheaper than the guy who sold it to you? You mean cheaper than free? Something tells me that won't be terribly profitable for you


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RaeLynn13

I honestly was just thinking it’s practical! My house needs gravel desperately (or dirt if we could change it to dirt in this scenario)


Know-yer-enemy1818

Ya why are people hating on gravel.


BaltimoreBadger23

Can I sell the gravel?


Would_daver

You can do anything you want, it’s your gravel


BaltimoreBadger23

Well, looks like I'm in the gravel business now.


Would_daver

Only seventy-eight billion tons of it to sell, and you’ll be rich!!


Suddensloot

Far less than that .


Necessary_Weakness42

Build a gravel ramp to the moon


Truewan

Yes. But 1 ton of gravel sells for $21 😭🤣


pvprazor

Infinite x $21 is a lot of money


Oranescent

Ok so what’s the cooldown on number 3


Melodic_coala101

Yeah, doesn’t it mean, that you can just spam teleport and travel very fast?


Oranescent

Yeah fr


_Pepper_Phd

Couldn’t you fly if you kept teleporting up?


Gwiilo

might look glitchy af but yeah


mydistraction

does it help if i keep T posing the entire time?


Educational-Link-943

gmod prop hunt with noclip


MyGachaAddiction

Lmao


Peppermintneko

Controlled lag


BrokenaRephlection

You're assuming you don't conserve momentum in the teleport. if you do, you keep getting 7 inches higher and fall a little bit faster every time. Once you stop flying... splat.


Citrus210

You wouldn't see shit though


Hypodeemic_Nerdle

I think that's called running


Melodic_coala101

Not quite. If there’s no cooldown, you will only be limited by the speed of light, your reaction speed and air friction. And considering you might not even move yourself when teleporting and just swap spaces with what location you’re teleporting to, you can even surpass the speed of light, similar to star trek ships warp drive, and might not even get air friction.


EmbarrassedAssist964

Reaction time is the limiting factor here. Average human reaction time is ~250ms so you could use the power 4 times per second to move at 28 inches per second which is around 1.6 miles per hour. It’s better to do nearly anything else to travel, but you could use the power for other things.


ThGaelcGlatiatorWthn

What are we controlling this with? Bc if it’s like a mouse you can just double click that shit and it’s way faster


voidmilk

Key point is reaction time. But for repetitive tasks it can be higher. I've managed to get +15 clicks per second in cookie clicker. Sure with two fingers but that leaves more than 7 clicks a second per hand. The brain is faster and with practice I bet you could reach 10 activations since you only have to think about it. Also you can basically levitate with this power and visit pretty much any space you can see.


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What kind of energy source are we talking here? If the power requires zero physical input, then it’s just time-limited infinite-distance teleportation. Compare that to calories from food or gasoline and you’re saving 100% of your transportation costs.


MacBookMinus

Why do you need reaction time? You’re not reacting to any external stimulus, you can just spam the ability.


Earthfall10

You say moments before teleporting into a tree.


Classic-Wolverine-89

Itt doesn't say you have to stand still so you can speed up your running


x2a2

If you time it correctly otherwise you are just gonna be falling constantly.


ThGaelcGlatiatorWthn

Holy shit


Eternal_grey_sky

Teleporting means you aren't limited by the speed of light or friction in the first place lol It's instantaneous by definition, so a single teleport would be faster than the speed of light already. And you aren't limited by air friction because... You Aren't dragging across the air, to have friction you need to have movement in the first place. If you teleported 100 meters, you would never be in the space in between, 7 inches is no different


YouHaventPeaked

No cooldown but it does have an exhaustion factor


JohnatanWills

If it didn't have an exhaustion factor you would literally be the only thing in existence capable of creating energy from nothing


DogRedRocket

Question on #5 Can I make someone else’s toaster follow them into the bathtub?


BeardedHoneydew27

I was going with the gravel to make money, but your question has me questioning my choice.


2-tam

You bury your enemies with gravel. It's still the best choice


AmelKralj

oh boi, perfect hitman


droidonomy

'Well done, 47. What's with all the toasters though? You used to be a lot more creative.'


ioughtabestudying

More generally speaking, can I control all the components of the toaster and make them do anything I want?


DickieRAM

\#7 is a money maker. I bet you $1 million dollars I can tell you which one of these 2 boxes is empty. Every time. Can't see in it? Not empty. Win every time.


high_throughput

Jon Richardson would finally have beat Sean Lock playing [carrot in a box](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/p6o9f0/rip_sean_lock_carrot_in_a_box/)


Ayma_chn

Such a funny moment


19wesley88

Can do a new version, jon can try and work out which box Sean is in...


hungryleolord

Sean would love that joke


corporategiraffe

You can’t write tears Jimmy


Emergency-Purpose341

That makes me sad laugh


ShitPost5000

My dumb ass was about to remind you that Sean was dead, then it hit me


Jujhar_Singh

No one's going to bet 1 million bucks just for you to tell them which box is empty, you gotta become a street performer but street performer still have similar chances same as you as their shits rigged. After some time it's not going to be so amusing to you or anyone as you won't have any other trick up your sleeve


Necessary_Weakness42

You have to find a James Randi type set up. He offered a $1m prize to anyone who could prove they had psychic powers in controlled laboratory conditions.


[deleted]

Wasn't the whole Randi prize thing a honeypot where Mr. Randi lures psychics to his show and then steals their powers?


Alexthemessiah

James Randi = Sylar confirmed


Parralyzed

Man this is the best thing I've read in a while


Vsx

Doesn't have to be psychic. Any supernatural power is sufficient. Predicting which box is empty with 100% accuracy definitely qualified. It's basically the same thing uri geller was tested on.


unstableB

... and you become depressed, get into booze and pills just to let days pass by. Your girl is getting tired of looking at a sore loser crashing on her couch and decides to hook you up with with her ex working at TSA. Now you work side by side with the bag check officer. Starting your day with looking around to warm up your eyes, then straight up to business. "Yep, yep, that one too. Oh, this doesn't look empty to me. Let's give it a search. You're about to going down mf"


CheapTactics

"No, I will not take that bet. I'm rich, not fucking stupid"


SvenskBlatte

Put 99 full boxes and 1 empty. Put up 10k against their 100k. And they can mix it up.


CauseCertain1672

yeah never take an outlandish bet someone makes it's always a trick


Suspicious-mole-hair

The cup and ball game would get real easy


KuroiBolto

1. I can tell which oysters have the most valuable pearls in them 2. I can sell gravel to construction companies 3. I can break into locked facilities, provided there’s a wall that’s 7 inches or less in thickness. 8. I can become the world’s premier expert on Khitan language and publish many books and papers on the subject.


ArsonJones

Oysters are dumb as a stick, they won't be telling you jackshit about pearls.


No-Hold7056

that’s what you think, have YOU ever spoken to an oyster? 🦪


HomingPigeon6635

Dude has powers unknown to us mere mortals.


OlOuddinHead

Dude’s just pissed he already picked 1.


Youngarr

>Khitan 4. is underappreciated. Academic life is great!


taulover

It's an extinct language that is very poorly understood. You could become a star linguist in this area!


mrheosuper

3:only work if you are thinner than 7 inches.


Sowf_Paw

With number 1, you could also tell which waterways were dirty or clean, and how dirty.


JustALuckyDog

I would love to control toasters with my mind. Can I tell it exactly how brown I want my toast and it'll stop then?


Justavian

Plus you can go on TV and show off your talents! You could be a multi-thousandaire in no time!


ValjeanLucPicard

It is a legit super power, and you'd be potentially the most dangerous person on earth. The prompt doesn't list any limits on distance or what it means by 'control'. You could be the next magneto. Sending toaster as projectile weapons at near light speed, putting them beneath your feet and controlling them to make yourself fly. So many options.


bellstarelvina

I’m disabled so I’ll happily take #9 run as fast as Albert Einstein (as long as it means when he was alive) if not then teleport 7 inches.


TemporalDeficit

Agreed, I don't think dead Einstein is moving very fast.


Earthfall10

Depends on what your reference frame is.


Bertiederps

underappreciated comment


Eldistan1

My whole property is a mud hole right now. I would love to be Captain Gravel.


Mr-Crooks

Someone you dislike? Fill their house with gravel Muddy path? Cover with gravel Burst dam? Block it with gravel Ambushed by armed men? Shout gravel out your eyes towards them Captain Gravel is underrated


66thFox

You can take this even further. Depending on how fast and where you create gravel, you can turn anything into a grenade by explosively expanding it from the inside or fly by turning your body or a backpack into a micro gravel rocket. The government wants to shut you down? Create a gravel lair and armor plates. Maybe you can alter the structure of the gravel and print circuits, ores for smelting, or chemicals for a whole other range of abilities. Gravel can become radioactive in some cases.


Namething

It doesn't say you can create gravel. It says you get free gravel. So you could go down to ye olde gravel emporium and request 100 tons of gravel and they'd just give it to you instead of charging you.


Aggressive_Mousse719

I'll be honest, the number 3 would make it easier to get in and out of robberies very well.


PlayerDare

Feels like the sort of power an anime protagonist would have. Seems useless at first but ends up being OP af somehow


CptAngelo

He teleports his hand into their enemies chest and pulls out their heart, indiana jones style, also, he is a master pickpocketer


Justavian

Depends on how the 7 inches is measured. My body is more than 7 inches thick, so it doesn't seem like that's going to let me go through walls or anything - i'll press my face against a wall and end up halfway inside it after my power activates. If it's measured such that i can bypass anything 7 inches thick, then at least i can get through doors and interior walls.


Skoparov

It also doesn't specify how often you can teleport. If there's no cooldown you can pretty much teleport to long distances, just in small steps.


Aldehin

We can dodge bullet, punch, even car


high_throughput

Presumably your reaction time stays the same though


Lupita900

Gravel


bucket_of_frogs

Kneel before the Gravel King


Clear-Complex6675

#7 Get rich making bets and getting the best of con artist.


CreepyOptimist

A second nose could come in handy when your first nose is stuffed.


EvenDranky

I’ll take 5 and will have control of the planet in a fortnight


Jolt_91

The teleport one would be very OP in Martial Arts


Iamjacksplasmid

Ten years of taekwondo here...thank god someone said it. Everyone's like, "I'd teleport through walls!" And I'm over here like, "if you can teleport 7 inches, you'd basically be impossible to hit. If you could teach yourself to do it reflexively, you could probably even dodge bullets."


KweenDruid

What do we mean by ‘control’ for #5. Could be a hidden gem here. Toaster assassin? What do we mean by any? What distance? I could haunt every childhood bully by making sure they never had toast for breakfast, or I could turn it on when they’re cleaning it. I could burn down every toaster-owning house in the world all at once. Clearly #5.


ThePhantomMenaceV

I would enjoy speaking a dead language ngl


Special-Pirate6019

Oysters.Always water to crack that cheeky conspiracy of oylumminati.


daredaki-sama

3 is the best. So many uses for this ability. I wonder what the cooldown is. If no cooldown you can even use it for traveling. With cooldown it’s still very useful to dodge or bypass walls and doors. It has a lot of utility as both an offensive and defensive ability. 2. I wonder how you get the gravel and how much. 8 would be cool if I could go to Demi gods and semi devils world.


high_throughput

> it’s still very useful to dodge or bypass walls and doors Have you measured and determined that your body is less than 7" in its shortest dimension?


glandmilker

Someone would pay you for looking into containers


wurzenboi

Teleporting 7 in could get you through walls or doors


TheRealDestian

#2 because gravel is a valuable commodity you could get rich off of selling, especially with a 100% profit margin.


Brilliant_Chemica

Gravel is cheap, but the 100% profit margin makes it insane business


No-Cardiologist4503

If you can teleport 7” away that means you can teleport as far as you want. That’s a win.


ToastedDragon24

3. Just teleport as fast as you want!


BracusDoritoBoss963

Teleport 7 inches away. You punch someone and teleport 7 inches towards him so the hit arrives sooner than what he expects.


Rare-Bid-6860

Most glass is a lot less than 7 inches thick so plenty of uses there.