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minus-squareRobotZap10000@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up78·22 hours agoThis map is very inaccurate, as it neglects those who had consumed electrical energy through lightning striking them. That cooked flesh didn’t come for free!
minus-squareladicius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·14 hours agoThat’s not consumption, that’s agony.
minus-squarex00z@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54·21 hours agoIt also neglects rubbing on some fabrics and shocking friends and family with the charged static electricity.
minus-squareBloomcole@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 hours agoAncient civilizations, including the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, used electric fish for medical treatments. Thales of Miletus discovered static electricity (600 BC) by rubbing amber and observing its ability to attract light objects.
minus-squaresome_guy@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·20 hours agoThose people were condemned as witches. Best not to think about it.
minus-squarereallykindasorta@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·19 hours agoWe have a bit of electricity in our nervous systems too, yes?
minus-squareSergio@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·16 hours agoYeah, there’s electricity in the brain, for example.
minus-squaretetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agothere’s electricity in the air when I’m with you
minus-squareCoolbeanschilly@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·20 hours agoThey just took the aggregate population, and rounded down based on kWh.
This map is very inaccurate, as it neglects those who had consumed electrical energy through lightning striking them. That cooked flesh didn’t come for free!
That’s not consumption, that’s agony.
It also neglects rubbing on some fabrics and shocking friends and family with the charged static electricity.
Ancient civilizations, including the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, used electric fish for medical treatments.
Thales of Miletus discovered static electricity (600 BC) by rubbing amber and observing its ability to attract light objects.
Those people were condemned as witches. Best not to think about it.
We have a bit of electricity in our nervous systems too, yes?
Yeah, there’s electricity in the brain, for example.
there’s electricity in the air when I’m with you
They just took the aggregate population, and rounded down based on kWh.