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Pretty much the title. I've been watching more realistic super hero shows like The Boys and Invincible. The reoccurring themes is that with great power comes great immorality.

I think it's easy for us normies to respect other people and their property because there are clear consequences for violating social norms. But what would the average person do if they had super powers?

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[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not really, because you wouldn't be able to see anything or hear anything if time stops. Even light particles would stop moving, and your eyes would just see flashes of light as you move through space.

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which would be perfect. To probably get the best sleep of your life.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

None of the cleanup in your brain that takes place when you actually sleep is going to happen either, so you'd wake without getting any of the benefits of rest too, right?

[–] Breezy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Huh. Well then, your point is clearly right, i never thought of that. Case closed on pondering about that question for the rest of my life.

[–] GiveMemes@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean we could just assume it to be like what 1/100 seconds per seconds perceived by user and everybody else would be moving and perceiving so slowly that it accomplishes pretty much the same thing right? Bullets might be a bit tough to dodge now at ~12ft/s (for handguns) but not impossible so still seems pretty useful

[–] lars@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At 1/100 speed, light would be so redshifted that you wouldn't be able to perceive it. However, some X-rays (1-10nm) would be redshifted into the visible range (400 to 700nm).

I guess this means you would have x-ray vision. But you would see little to nothing since our environment normally does not include significant levels of X-rays.