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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What's wrong with cathode ray tubes?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

The unsarcastic response is that "Critical Race Theory" is the concepts taught in educational institution which highlight how Racism has and continues to shape our society, and sometimes talks about the outcomes of various attempts to combat and repair these systemic failures.

[–] SkybreakerEngineer 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Noise, size, weight, smearing, high voltage...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I don't miss the noise. Still haven't found a smallish (by today's standards -- 17-21") flat panel that has the same picture quality as the best CRTs, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Don't forget the shocks, and the dust, so much dust...

[–] Red_October 6 points 1 week ago

I just don't want them in our schools. Pointing particle accelerators at my kids makes me nervous.

[–] Mojave 3 points 1 week ago

They can and were used as IEDs when buried shallow and face-up with sharp rocks pressed against the screens.

They hold a lot of internal pressure, and a car driving over it would puncture the screen, causing the TV body to rapidly depressurize and explode upwards in a hail of glass shards.

This was how right-wing hero Pat Robertson was famously killed last year on his way to the annual youth slaughtering convention