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Yeah, that's a broken heater. A broken heater sign is usually high resistance or good ol disconnect. It being in parallel further reinforces that. This is a common schematic for domestic refrigerators.

Ahh, probably a broken heater then. If it is a normally open thermal switch, it should not have that low of a resistance
I've seen the pic. So the plate is not the component? I thought the whole plate was the component. In that case, if it is a small metal plate like any of this, then it most likely is a thermal cutoff.

It's not running the compressor in reverse necessarily. It just used to sense when the temperature of some point has reached some threshold. Remember, a high temperature on the cold side could also be used to trigger the compressor to cool down the fridge.
Oh, it is a big plate. Probably not a thermal cutoff then
It seems like I cannot find a picture of your component (if you ever posted any). If it is metallic looking, it is probably a thermal cutoff of some sort. The wikipedia article focuses on the fuse-looking one, but there also exists a flat metal plate looking one. The connection is usually normally open so if the temperature on the loop is ever too high, the motor (compressor) will trigger. The normally closed connection one is for motor overheat protection. That kind is usually placed/glued to thbe e stator body, so if it ever gets too hot, it will stop the motor instead.
Edit: The picture provides a clearer size of the metal plate. A plate of that size is not a thermal cutoff. I don't know what it is either. But if it is indeed a heater, you should be able to measure the resistance. If it is a resistive heater, usually it will have a low resistance (usually <10R). And metal is not "cold" at room temps, they are the temperature of room temps. It just feels cold because of higher thermal conductivity
3Blue1Brown always puts it best. There are 2 ways to do statistics. The usual / frequentist, and bayesian / belief model.
In the context of art, I think it is useful to capture the author's original art as closely as possible when archiving. Especially because art can use wordplay and breaking grammar for the sake of the art.
Oh man, that manual is quite descriptive. I wish they could add a schematic or two there. But anyway, as others have suggested, be careful with CRT, but I guess you already know that. Next is from the circuit description, it seems like the display accepts some form or VGA signal without the color. You can see Ben Eater video to learn more about it, especially the line sync and vertical sync signal part
Which is why I said it matters for long run. A short cable run would still probably work even if suboptimal.
I thought that you mean the color doesn't matter just that they match on the termination point, not as a pair. So you can have C with brown and green for example
It matters for longer runs and higher speed. The twist provides noise cancellation effect