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• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The way you worded it makes it sound like it’s very easy to short a battery with your body, not that attempting to short a battery will cause “no issue” because it won’t actually work.

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m aware - I very intentionally spared everyone the lecture on the mechanics of how this works because it is, on the whole, very boring. However if we really wanted to get into the boring technical details nobody but us cares about then yes, you are indeed shorting the battery, it’s just for a ludicrously small amount of current.

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    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thing is, you also called it “shorting” the battery. Usually a short is an unintended, unsustainable low resistance path.

      While your body may technically close the circuit, calling it a short makes it sound like an actual electricution risk. That combined with the unclear “no issue” usage made it pretty confusing, I thought you had no idea what you were talking about until I saw your reply.

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      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s just the common parlance. I wouldn’t have done this were it a more technical setting, but this is a shitpost community - so I’ll just have to beg forgiveness for my imprecision. Fortunately, should anyone go to test this by fondling their car’s terminals, no harm will befall them due to my lack of strict accuracy in the description here (though they might get rebuffed by their car if it’s not in the mood).

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    • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oooh, because we’re too dumb to understand the finer details of electrical engineering, is that it? IS THAT IT?

      Because yeah I am too dumb to understand even the coarser details of electrical engineering.

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      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes exactly, I cannot stand the idea of you plebs learning things. How dare you.

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• asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Did you mean short circuit the battery using your bare hands?

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I meant contact both terminals at once with your bare hands.

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    • asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But that won’t short circuit it is my point

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      • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Guys, GUYS! Calm down, you are all a bunch of nerds.

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      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How do you mean?

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