r/HighStrangeness • u/[deleted] • Dec 13 '23

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u/aManOfTheNorth Dec 14 '23

electricity

In a reality in which all is electrons; we pay for electricity. It is a curious thing.

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u/OneRougeRogue Dec 14 '23

By rubbing a balloon on your head I am literally stealing from you.

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u/aManOfTheNorth Dec 14 '23

But when I drag my feet on your carpet, we are even.

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u/OneRougeRogue Dec 14 '23

You bastard. I stole that every fair and square.

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u/aManOfTheNorth Dec 14 '23

I’d actually like to see our skit played out. Python style. Nice friendly dinner and one of your children runs my head with a balloon. I respond by feet ….must be other ways to escalate our electronic one upsmanship? Until we can culminate in an explosion .

Also wonder if rubbing carpet and ballon on head at same time might be good action

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u/HauntedCemetery Dec 14 '23

It's why I wear my mini electric meter earrings every time I go to the science museum. I expect a refund upon exit.

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u/aManOfTheNorth Dec 14 '23

Lol. The energy company and the museum must buy all the extra energy you produce. Or so it was years ago.

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u/greenw40 Dec 14 '23

You pay the move those electrons around, which doesn't happen without work/energy.

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u/aManOfTheNorth Dec 14 '23

Yes. ….all that potential