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Not just the capacitors, the tube itself is a capacitor that handles multiple kilovolts, so you can easily hit the wrong side of the flyback transformer or poke the wrong part of the tube and get fried.

Not just an “Ouch, don’t do that again”, more of a heart just stops.

They are part of the deflection yoke. If you saw that chunky core wrapped in magnet wire on the skinny end of the tube that’s what that was. They aren’t always permanent magnets, most of the later model TVs used electromagnets, but it’s how the electron beam is moved across the screen. All of them will have very strong magnets somewhere by design.

It’s worse than that because of how the poverty line is calculated based on the cost of food.

Sounds like a great plan, except that we stopped there.

Our poverty line is only calculated based on the cost of food. As is rent was free.

15% of our population couldn’t even afford food if they didn’t pay any rent at all.

Let that sink in and understand it’s not hyperbole when we say we are fucked.