Re: Would you want this superpower?
It certainly wouldn't be anywhere near the top of my list of powers I'd want, but given the choice between this power and nothing? I'd absolutely want it. I'd likely almost never use it, but simply having it in case of an emergency? Yeah, that would be useful. It means being able to get away from a mass shooter or other disaster, being able to get to the hospital if seriously sick/injured (I assume injuries don't worsen during the transit time), etc. If I were desperate, I could even use it to get into otherwise-inaccessible (or dangerous-to-access - no risk of getting mugged when slow-porting!) areas... and it could prove worthwhile for more typical uses, if it doesn't care about traffic conditions and the like (if somewhere usually takes me half an hour to drive to, but traffic is bad enough it would take me 2 hours to get there, using an hour of resources is a net gain, plus I actually get there in only 30 minutes).
There would be the temptation to overuse it and accidentally put myself in an early grave, of course, but I think I could resist that.
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