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NotANumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

People are essentially internal combustion engines that burn food. Trying to capture that energy in ways that increases the load on us just causes us to need more calories. That’s counter productive as you could just burn said food itself to get energy, and agriculture is an energy and environmentally intensive industry to begin with.

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HereIAm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The original idea was the machines using humans as a connected neural network. I don’t think it would change much about the plot of the movies if they’re used for energy or brain power, so it’s easy to change it for your own head canon at least 🙂

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- Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  As the other person already said, not totally relevant to the discussion at hand, but I do find that bit of trivia fascinating. The processing power version makes so much more sense logically, but it was put to the wayside by production executives because they thought the average movie-goer wouldn’t get it, since computing was still somewhat niche at the time.
  
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- NotANumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  We aren’t actually talking about the matrix here
  
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MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
On the other hand, clothes that would help me lose weight and charge my phone at the same time sound pretty cool. Just need to install Pokemon Go and I’ll be fit in no time.

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- boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Don’t worry, you’ll just eat more to compensate lol
  
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  - MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    so I get to enjoy more pizza?
    
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    boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yes.
    
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