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why are there 2 people in suits?
even the Mormons are solar now?
Mandatory clothing in our utopian solarpunk society of course
The third guy was busy that day.
Human sacrifices to the Turbine Gods.
Have we even tried powering our turbines with CEO blood?
Stock assets to show scale, probably.
gotta dress up to visit the machine god
don't wanna insult the machine god with my shabby shoes. wear my fancy shoes.
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.
Someone needs to take credit for the work of engineers and manual laborers.
men in black