Incandescent lightbulbs were being banned. He spent $1,700 to hoard thousands.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/18/man-buys-incandescent-lightbulbs-stockpile/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3FFUq-rjiqdX-xgL7OqjwUofhecV6WH8ktj6SUToHwuslTatpQ6r7-eE8

Kevin Szmyd became obsessed with incandescent lightbulbs in the spring, a few months before new federal regulations effectively banned them in favor of more energy-efficient LEDs. Facing the prospect of losing access forever, he had a bright idea: He would stockpile as many lightbulbs as possible before the Aug. 1 cutoff.

He explained his mind-set at the time: “I’m panicked. I think that there’s a hard deadline, and I’ll never be able to buy them again,” he told The Washington Post. “I’m trying to get a lifetime collection before the ban.”

Szmyd, 25, spent about six weeks and roughly $1,700 hoarding more than 4,800 lightbulbs, a stockpile he estimates will last him some 75 years. Szmyd, waxing eloquent about light quality and current flows, talks about lightbulbs the way audiophiles insist that vinyl produces better sound than CDs or streaming services.

“It’s the gold standard at producing a sunlight-quality color, whereas LEDs … often they’re casting out more of a bluish-green light, which is just terrible,” he said.

fluoro is about to be illegal

Why would you think that? A standard flourescent tube has about a 25% flicker modulation. Anyhing above 3 is bad and anything above 8 is directly unhealthy for you. LED tubes, assuming they’ve been built correctly, generally have less than 1%.

What’s harsher about it though? White LED is still fluorescent – they use blue light to drive phosphors, just like a mercury arc UV drives phosphor in fluoro.