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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 22 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Breaker box would have breakers not fuses

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 11 hours ago

Hence "refused"...

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

“What was wrong with it?”

“It was broken.”

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 2 points 11 hours ago

This meme can be fixed. Fuseboxes exist

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Breakers are just reusable fuses.

[–] TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Functionally, I guess so. Materially, absolutely not.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

A piece of metal heats up in both.

One melts, the other activates an electromagnet disconnecting the line, like the melted metal.

Material wise, they both have the same parts, one just has more.

Some fuses even have gunpowder in them to make sure it disconnects since it doesn’t always fully melt, kinda like using an electromagnet.

There’s also even Actual resetable fuses too

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It's actually not a pun, just a terrible electrician who welded the breaker switches so they can never shut off.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

This one weird trick…