It just occurred to me that zippos are basically the same type of oil lanterns that we’ve been using for thousands of years

I wanna add to that the MV for Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Seeing all those kids with mangled faces just standing on the conveyer belt, falling one by one into the meat grinder and being turned into a mush just messed with my young brain

The electrons are very much moving, even if at an incredibly slow pace of ~1cm/s. It’s just that they push the electrons ahead of them which puch the ones in front of then, etc. which makes electricity so fast.

It is however somewhat true for AC because there the electrons just get pushed back and forth 50/60 times per second, making them more or less stay in place