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[–] johnefrancis@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago (8 children)

why are there 2 people in suits?

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago

The third guy was busy that day.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

gotta dress up to visit the machine god

don't wanna insult the machine god with my shabby shoes. wear my fancy shoes.

[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Your machine god likes fancy shoes 😂 Embarrassing.

The generic suits depicted are sacrificial "meat candles". They do what they sound like, and everyone knows shoes just kinda get in the way and slow things down. Simple as. Power don't flow the same without a few of these suits startin to sizzle just right, oughta have yer meat candles primed before ya start 'er up.

Fancy shoes! The things ya read on the Internet, by golly.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Mandatory clothing in our utopian solarpunk society of course

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Someone needs to take credit for the work of engineers and manual laborers.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Human sacrifices to the Turbine Gods.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago

Have we even tried powering our turbines with CEO blood?

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Stock assets to show scale, probably.

[–] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago