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 Isn't this LED garbage? 
 You can get both, I just replaced my led ones with incandescent. 
 its got filaments 
 LED filaments. 
 zoom in on the bulb! 
filaments! 
 I just grabbed a random online pic of a vintage light bulb. I'm not sure what this one is exactly 🤷‍♂️ 
 dear god. ITS GOT FILAMENTS. 
 This photo looks like a genuine edison bulb, but try to buy one and its the simulated LED filament trash 
 LED. The real ones are tiny, tiny tungsten coils if you zoom in.

I have a few for the ambience, but they're not daily drivers. 
 its not a coil bulb. 
ok too many millennial experts. 
on to more important things 
 The hate for led lights is unwarranted Luddism.  While they certainly are not the end all be all that they were proclaimed a decade ago, they are superior in virtually every way to incandescent bulbs. 
 Proclaimed superior by moronic tech geeks, LED manufacturers and the scientific governmental complex sponsored by chinese industrialists. 
 And anyone that installs lights of all kinds for a living 
 I know all about that. My dad was a professional light bulb salesman and installer. That's a whole different story, now you're bringing commercial lighting into the mix. I'm only concerned about domestic lighting. 
 Regular led bulb > regular incandescent imo

They fail less and have less duds out of the package(in my extensive experience) and don't heat up to dangerous temperatures (which causes many issues beyond the fire hazard). They also use 1/10th of the power

The positives for incandescents are that they don't dim as much over time and they are cheaper to make.

The things I care about as an electrician are the things in column A. 
 I used to be in your camp. Efficiency and longevity was my primary concern. Then I learned about intracellular photosynthetic production of melatonin.  
 Yeah, that's about as interesting to me as astrology. Light is light. What changes is the spectrum and that can be set at any wavelength with LEDs.  There is no meaningful amount of anything else radiating from an incandescent light.  The fact that it's a piece of molten tungsten doesn't make the light different than a cold diode of the same color. 
 Ok. I guess I don't know what I'm talking about. Next time I'll call my electrician before I read any scientific literature. 
 Snark all you want. If you think your incandescent light bulb has some kind of health benefit, I have a bridge to sell you. 
 Would you say the same of sunlight? 
 The sun is not a small band of glowing tungsten.  Troll harder 
 Also, as soon as they started sponsoring the CFL bulbs, the incandescent bulb quality went through the floor and what would last years started lasting months. 
 Yes the led "filament" bulbs are utter flickery trash. They also lack spectrum in the yellow and far red region rendering them depressingly dim.  
 you can still find incandescent ones like this at certain hardware stores