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      1 year ago

      Serious answer: it rectifies electric current, using mercury vapor. It looks pretty cool but it’s very obsolete technology.

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        And generated a fuck tonne of UV, so….don’t look at it with your remaining eye.

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          Please tell me “rectify” does not mean “insert into a rectum.”