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I think there was a documentary several years ago narrated by Keanu Reeves about human batteries...

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I was also thinking of the documentary a couple decades ago narrated by Rowdy Roddy Piper..

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Great picture and I loved the song. I hope you have enjoyed the song as much as I have.

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Just like The Matrix!

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And here we thought "The Matrix" was science fiction. Who'da thought?

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And Black Mirror

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Well said, as usual. Thank you.

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Thank you!!

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You are appreciated

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So are you, and I relate to your handle.

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the creepy music, all comforty and friendly sounding...

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Arrrrrrgh.

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How cute that you think we're actually making this decision and aren't already in one of the simulations. 😄

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Pretty damaged to even think in those terms. Luckily, I guess, most of the people dreaming this nonsense up have never taken a physics class. The mere generation of energy doesn't mean it can be turned to useful work.

Run a watch using the seebeck effect? Sure. Run a 65W laptop? Maybe at the south pole for the 3 minutes it takes to die.

They're selling unicorn dust.

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“The ends justify the means mindset has been the impetus behind many a cruel medical or social experiment.”

― James Morcan, The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy

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OMFG!

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Oh yes, "a good thing as it converts useless eaters into useful eaters"....

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I understood that there already exist implantable "chips" that create electricity directly from the human body chemical processes. No batteries needed!

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Yes, that exists, too. I've written about it somewhere, will have to find links and post in comments here!

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Tessa said:

"So my question is, is this how we want to live? Is it what we want to become? Human batteries to feed the internet of bodies?"

Abstract reductionism of your lived experience by a distant owner/decider/executive enslaves and prostitutes your life, your lived experience for some small and abstracted profit to some other entity. In fact, such small extractions maybe consumed by other losses in the system, and be completely wasteful.

Only you can live your human experience.

I have "ridden" a bicycle ergometer at times to create certain amounts of electricity.

You have probably been told that a person can readily make 100 Watts to power a light bulb this way, which is true.

Do it for 5 minutes, if you can.

Well, you need an expensive machine set up to do so, but still, you will be surprised how much body-work it is to make 100 Watts.

Somebody who can sustain 200 Watts on a bicycle can be a pretty good racer if intelligent and well coordinated and a bit daring (and good in a crash).

The distant abstraction of aspects of our lives into "things" which can be taken from us, taken away, and sold or traded distantly for the profit of our "owners" is the process which is an enemy to our humanity.

We can be enemies to our own humanity and to each other, too.

Don't get suckered!

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'Funny', strange connections are made in ANY contact and if you train yourself, as I've begun doing, you can 'feel' or sense the pull. And more than pull, a little 'twist'. You often walk away wondering 'What just happened?', and it takes me time to get to the underbelly which is nearly always dark but covered up with laughing, joking. But it's not true.

I also think I experience what they call 'gaslighting', which seems to be another set up.

Further, I found many people are on 'the take', a lot of 'vampires'.

Certainly not all. Those contacts that are OK seem to be victims themselves!! I am very careful that I don't hurt them!!

The only escape I found was Jesus and sometimes maybe nature.

Nature, however, is being attacked by various diseases, fungi,

choking moss overgrowth; so, this isn't easy to find.

Because of Jesus's nature, and power, I can be lifted out(saved)

of this morass of sin, sin just being things going wrong.

No, it's not always this negative but this topic takes a bad path.

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To the red-pilled, Skynet is already in control of the horizontal and the vertical and the one$ and zeroe$ and I'm pretty sure it's a cookbook.

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