HazelgnashMar 8
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You may ask:

"Why?"

But the universe whispers back:

"Why not?"

Mar 7 at 10:42pmWeb
Show threadPeterMar 7
@benroyce Swingers (1996), dir. Doug Liman
Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESMar 7

@sarble

Yes. You only get this scene in the directors cut

Show threadKit Rhett AultmanMar 9
@benroyce @sarble Fun trivia...it's the only scene in the movie to not use the phrase "You are so money".
Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESMar 9

@roadriverrail @sarble

😂

all i remember from that movie is the scene in the diner where vince vaughn thinks a woman is making come hither goo goo eyes at him and he gets all excited and then it's revealed it's for her baby that he can't see over the seating booth

it's absolutely perfect. it cuts right to the point that he's a literal man-baby

Show threadKit Rhett AultmanMar 9
@benroyce @sarble I think the first time I saw it was while I was in the obsession phase of a bad breakup and watching John Favreau cringe his way through half the film was a pretty good medicine for me at the time.
Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESMar 9

@roadriverrail @sarble

that's what good movies do well! take you out of your head for a few hours

Show threadKit Rhett AultmanMar 9
@benroyce @sarble I meant it more in the "Oh...so *this* is what I look like right now. Yikes." sort of way. 😅
Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESMar 9
@roadriverrail @sarble 😆
Show threadDukeMar 7
@benroyce That was fuckin' hilarious! 😄
Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESMar 7
@DukeDuke shame on you. did you not hear the voices in the video wailing for their fates? (/s)
Show threadkawunnggMar 7
@benroyce @DukeDuke
a narrow line between "wow!" and "oh no!"
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@kawunngg @DukeDuke 😂
Show threadE. C. BigribsMar 7
@benroyce Please tell me this is called "Game Of Thrones"
Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESMar 7
@eedly 😂😂😂
Show threadSarah WMar 8
@eedly @benroyce
👏👏👏
Well done!
Show thread0xDECAFBADMar 7
@benroyce skibidi
Show threadWendroid 🇺🇦Mar 8
@slyborg @benroyce IYKYK
Show threadFloaty BirbMar 7
@benroyce someone remembered that they have free will
Show threadDasMar 7
@benroyce wow Red Team, Blue Team shit just got real!
Show threadclewMar 7

Why not with the CRTs is that the tubes should be more carefully disposed of and mixing them with... everything else makes that harder.

Am hopefully believing that the actual CRTs *have* been disposed of and we are seeing merely the appliance shells.

@benroyce

Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESMar 7
@clew is it lead? The CRTs have lead in them I think?
Show threadclewMar 7

Mercury in the inside of the tubes? Both?

Plus they can implode in a pretty explody way

@benroyce

Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESMar 7

@clew eww

good point

Show threadclewMar 7

Lead and unspecified heavy metals, according to EPA and my state Ecology.

And! delightfully practical discussion from reddit filmmakers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Filmmakers/comments/16ulkdq/would_it_be_dangerous_to_break_a_small_crt_tv/

@benroyce

Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESMar 7
@clew "lots of nasty dust will come up" 😬 lead dust
Show threadclewMar 7

Glass powder lead dust! Get those fine particles *right* into the bloodstream!

@benroyce

Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESMar 7

@clew

I remember cutting open an old weird battery as a kid and remarking on the little beads of mercury 😅😅😅

Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKMar 7

@benroyce @clew

TBH pretty much all CRTs had implosion protection by the 1970s, although correct disposal remains a problem - already a whole load have ended up in landfills across the USA since the 2000s and even here in Europe the "eco-friendly" places often quietly sent them to poorer countries...

Show threadclewMar 7

looks like the leaded glass was recycled into more leaded glass (more CRTs) until suddenly the market collapsed

I guess we don't want leaded glass to drink out of anymore, either. Uh, radiation-sheilding windows? Is it good for anything that's worth the risk? Is the glass okay encapsulation of the lead if it gets sintered into big glassy blocks, or will the lead leach?

argh

@vfrmedia @benroyce

Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKMar 7

@clew @benroyce

I think its only major use case these days is radiation shielding windows - even light fittings are increasingly all plastic, including industrial grade ones.

Lead itself is still useful for a lot of things (particularly starter/aux batteries for motor vehicles which are still in heavy demand) and can be recovered from CRTs alongside rare earth metals, but how much this happens will of course depend on market demand and cost opposed to producing new raw materials (lead does get recycled a lot though as its relatively easy to do)

https://www.wiserrecycling.co.uk/our-facilities/crt-recycling/

Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESMar 7

@vfrmedia @clew

i read somewhere recently that millions of dollars worth of gold and silver goes into swiss wastewater from their various industries centered around refining, jewelry, etc

but it's just not cost effective to recover it

Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKMar 7

@benroyce @clew there was research carried out in 2017 which suggested only in the Southern part of the country would it be worth recovering it, and its particles weighing just nanograms that cannot even be seen with the human eye..

https://www.dw.com/en/switzerland-sewers-flush-with-gold-and-silver/a-40923630

Swiss sewers flush with gold and silver

Sewers in Switzerland are hiding tiny particles of gold and silver among the grease and waste. Researchers have found tons of silver and more than 40 kilograms (90 pounds) of gold in Swiss waste water.

Deutsche Welle
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@vfrmedia @clew

leave it for future alluvial deposits for the panners of the year 12,000

Show threadRaven667Mar 8
@clew @vfrmedia @benroyce my completely uneducated guess is that the lead is safely encased and wont leach out, like uranium glass which is safe
Show threadRaven667Mar 8
@clew @vfrmedia @benroyce if im out here guessing then i also think that recycling and melting is probably the dangerous part that can cause the lead to become exposed and probably needs ro be done with care, air filtering
Show threadsaxnotMar 8
@raven667 @clew @vfrmedia @benroyce TIL uranium glass is safe
Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESMar 8

@saxnot @raven667 @clew @vfrmedia

it's "safe" in that it's not leaching a lot of uranium, much like leaded glass is "safe" because it's not leaching a lot of lead

of course, that means it's not really safe at all, because you don't want any uranium or lead in you, and there is no reason to use it unless you're a victorian reenactor

and the issue with the uranium is the chemical toxicity, not the radioactivity

Show threadThe TurtleMar 8
@clew @[email protected] years ago my dad used to de-escalate old b/w picture tubes by putting them by the railroad that used to run past our house and shooting the necks off with a .22 from an upstairs window.
Show threadThe TurtleMar 8

@clew in the summer of 1968, my dad also assembled a large (for then) color console television from a Heathkit. A "huge" twenty-five inches!!! The day UPS delivered the picture tube, my mom made us all hide in the basement because she was sure if they broke it it would explode, destroy the house, and kill us all.

For you Heathgeeks, it was a GR-295 in the Mediterranean cabinet. Someone is selling one on Facebook now.

No, I don't want it! We had to eat in the kitchen all the summer of 1968!

Show threadsaxnotMar 8
@the_turtle @clew yeah CR tubes are so very instersting and it's so interesting to me how there's this warranted fear of them exploding.
Show threadThe TurtleMar 8
@saxnot @clew my late mother was young and "implosion" and "explosion" was probably all the same to her.
Show threadsaxnotMar 11
@the_turtle @clew to be fair it matters little when the result is glass shards flying your way
Show threadThe TurtleMar 11
@saxnot @clew in those days they shipped picture tubes pretty heavily. Actual wood-lattice crate like Charles Foster Kane shipped it from Italy or something. I don't remember if UPS had the same limits/restrictions as now. It was 1968.
Show threadclewMar 11

Before containerized shipping! They must have been a real pain to transport!

@the_turtle @saxnot

Show threadThe TurtleMar 11
@clew @saxnot since it only had to go from Benton Harbor, Michigan to rural western New York, they probably just put it on a train. This was 1968, so rail wasn't entirely bankrupt yet, and the Interstate Highway system was about half done.
Show threadCLT/Linux Mar 7
@benroyce A R T
Show threadsmegMar 7
@benroyce skibidi
Show threadCainmark Does Not Comply 🚲Mar 7

@smeg @benroyce

No.

Show threadsmegMar 8
@cainmark @benroyce rizzler
Show threadChasalinMar 7
@benroyce my question:
WHAT???
Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESMar 7
@chasalin it took some preparation. how did the idea occur
Show threadLog 🪵Mar 7
@benroyce Gladiatoilets.
Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESMar 7
@log two toilets enter. One toilet leaves
Show threadClass WarioMar 7
@benroyce Hey look it’s the midterms
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@classwario 🥴
Show threadxs4me2Mar 7

@benroyce

Difficult to unsee…

Show threadChristian GudrianMar 7
@benroyce Woah! I've always wanted to know!
Show threadCatherine is not complacentMar 7
@benroyce worst carnival ride ever.