• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz
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    6 hours 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.

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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      6 hours 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).