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[–] billwashere@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fucking batteries?!?! This makes so much more sense.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Allegedly it was originally about basically this, but they dumbed it down to be about batteries for fear of audiences of the time not understanding.