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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Vastly Underrated Superpowers
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 16:15:30 +1300
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On 22/01/25 10:29, James Nicoll wrote:
> In article <vmoslu$ak2v$1@dont-email.me>,
> Bobbie Sellers  <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>> On 1/21/25 07:10, James Nicoll wrote:
>>> Five Vastly Underrated Superpowers
>>>
>>> These abilities might not help you fight crime, but they're still
>>> pretty awesome.
>>>
>>> https://reactormag.com/five-vastly-underrated-superpowers/
>>
>>
>> TV's Perry Mason's infallible power of detecting lies, even
>> innocent ones so that he never defends the guilty parties.
> 
> Usotoki Rhetoric features a woman who hears chimes when people
> consciously lie, which as she has discovered a few times isn't
> the same as knowing when people are telling the truth. 
> 

The tv program, Poker Face, stars a woman who can identify a lie simply
by hearing it with no body language clues nor measurements. It is a
rather ordinary story of routine life in the USA with kidnapping,
gratuitous violence and usually several murders followed by, (on the run
from a former employer's death sentence), Poker Face becoming involved
and solving everything before the hour is up so very realistic.
Her personality and character is an attempt at humour that succeeds with
me to the same extent as a Xmas cracker joke.
It is very shallow as in the episodes I have watched, this superpower
has only alerted her to some horrific crime and nothing further than
that, the assumption being that otherwise, everybody is always telling
the truth, no nuances.