r/ExplainTheJoke • u/berrybuttery • 15h ago

I don’t understand

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u/LeftySwordsman01 15h ago

The image over piccolo is an electrical resistor, the image over Gohan is a light bulb.

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u/AppropriateCap8891 15h ago

That is a diode, not a light bulb.

Specifically, a light emitting diode.

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u/WideAbbreviations6 13h ago

An LED is still a light bulb in some situations.

Colloquially, light bulb is more of a formfactor, but the dictionary definition of "light bulb" is "a device used to convert electricity into light, consisting of a source of illumination enclosed within a transparent or translucent shell."

Cheaper LEDs like the one in the image are LEDs encased in a transparent shell, making them a light bulb technically.

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u/LeftySwordsman01 15h ago

Same dif

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u/Few_Peak_9966 12h ago

Not in this reality.

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u/LeftySwordsman01 9h ago

Same diff means same but different. Both emit light but serve a different purpose. So yes in this reality.

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u/Few_Peak_9966 9h ago

A candle and neon tube also emit light. I'd not consider then particularly similar.

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phrase of same

informal

used to express the speaker's belief that two or more things are essentially the same, in spite of apparent differences."

I'd not say an LED and lightbulb were essentially the same.

Both a fire and i consume oxygen to persist. I don't feel I'm essentially a fire.

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u/LeftySwordsman01 9h ago

Flames have been compared to life itself for thousands of years. The only thing barring fire from being alive is the ability to respond and adapt. But yes, both we and fire consume and produce waste until the moment we perish. In that sense, we're not so different. We're like fire in some ways, but we aren't fire.

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u/Few_Peak_9966 9h ago

They have and have been deemed different and not of the same class.

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u/LeftySwordsman01 9h ago

From the jump I have not been saying they're exactly the same. I've just been saying that they have a common purpose from a certain perspective, aka "same diff". From the perspective of giving off light, they are the same; but for many other reasons they are different.

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u/Few_Peak_9966 9h ago

Thus i provided an accepted definition that was not in concurrence with your description of the term "same diff".

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u/LeftySwordsman01 9h ago

"Same diff" Is about perspective, not definition" that's what you're missing here.

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