A U.S. jury has ordered Bayer’s Monsanto to pay $165 million to employees of a school northeast of Seattle who claimed chemicals made by the company called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, leaked from light fixtures and got them sick.
If the school computers are leaking PCBs, something has gone terribly wrong.
Light fixtures, the article never mentions computers.
Do you want me to explain the joke to you?
Yes
The article talks about PCBs, by which they mean polychlorinated biphenyls, that leak out.
A much more common meaning for the same acronym is Printed Circuit Bords, which are these green/blue/black/red (rarely other colors) boards that e.g. hold most computer components and connect them to each other. Pretty much anything that’s called a board in a computer and other electronic devices is a PCB.
PCBs don’t melt, so if your PC is leaking PCBs (as in Printed Circuit Boards) something must have seriously gone wrong.
Since LEDs also have PCBs I thought there was something about replacing light fixtures with computers was the punch line.
“When LEDs can melt their PCBs things have gone terribly wrong” would a least match the article.
If you have to explain it…
Then there are a lot of people who don’t know what PCBs are.
Maybe it’s the rest of the world, or maybe it’s you.
I do. Don’t get it at all.
Damn LEDs, I knew there had to be a downside /s
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Light fixtures. PCBs were used in fluourescent lighting ballasts. Source
