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  • Mojave@lemmy.worldtoStolen from Facebook@lemmy.caFirst time?
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    5 days 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

















  • I ask with genuine curiosity, as I am not an academic and come from a software development mindset

    Why is paid-for services the only “legit” way to get others to evaluate your research? Why is it not kosher to publicly publish your research, and simply invite peers to evaluate it? This idea is essentially the entire process behind Open Source Software, and is the backbone of most modern tools/programs/apps/software/linux development.

    What does paying a publishing company provide you, as a researcher, that makes it worth it?