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Chathtiu t1_jegz6uz wrote

Reply to comment by anasui1 in Seriously enjoyed the first episode of "The Power" on Amazon Prime. The series is based on a 2017 novel about how the world radically changes when millions of teenage girls suddenly develop electrical superpowers. Notably, none of them put on costumes and start fighting crime. by TJ_Fox

> love how socially relevant discourse in these shows is manifactured by creating an absolutely idiotic sci fi premise that will never happen, kinda killing the believability of the discourse altogether

Welcome to scifi. That’s the entire purpose of the genre: to re-contextualize social issues into fantastical and far flung societies. It, like the parent genre of speculative fiction, is a giant “what if?” testing chamber.

Come join us in r/PrintSF if you’d like to join the conversation on speculative fiction.

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kcolli07 t1_jegz6bm wrote

Reply to How long is to long of a commute. by bluecommet84

It’s not worth it.

It may be tempting, but the opportunity cost… the exhaustion…. Weather and then needing to use PTO because the commute is MUCH too long to white knuckle it during the snow or rain… an hour and 15 is really at least an hour and a half with accounting for variables and needing to be on time, you’re constantly needing to buy gas….

In my opinion, it would be better to move closer or not take the job.

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jubilant-barter t1_jegz61r wrote

Reply to comment by Asha_Brea in Why do so few American movies let foreign language speaking characters speak their own language? Why does everything have to be in English... by _wyfern_

In a lot of countries, it's hilarous. They'll overdub the audio, and only have two actors.

So you can still hear the original dialogue, it's just that one guy and one woman are rapid-fire and emotionlessly speaking Russian or Tamil or whatever over the other sounds.

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