I once met a person that never drank water, only soft drinks. It’s not the unhealthiness of this that disturbed me, but the fact they did it without the requisite paperwork.

Unlike those disorganised people I have a formal waiver. I primarily drink steam and crushed glaciers.

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  • or simply inconveniencing them though

    Screwing. 100% screwing.

    An inconvenience is not being able to get someone on the phone in minutes or hours. Screwing is making someone spend days, weeks or months trying to get you on the phone and navigate a system that’s supposed to help them, not hurt them.

    My dad isn’t at pension age yet and has been struggling the last few years whilst being a full time carer of my grandmother. It has often taken days to weeks of calling to get through and weeks to months get things approved.

    Whereas, there are so many services we have that are for ACTUAL emergencies, and require fast service, where the money would save lives.

    You have this so backwards.

    Centrelink saves lives. Support saves lives. Welfare saves lives.

    If you don’t support people then they end up having to use the emergency services. Is it cheaper to support people before the need emergency services rather than after. You can’t house all the unemployed, disabled, pensioners, veterans (and other people I’ve probably forgotten) in emergency wards, these people don’t magically end up fed, housed and cared for if make Centrelink and related services a nightmare to deal with.

    My dad has been keeping my grandmother out of hospital. She’s now in a nursing home, funded mostly by government, that is keeping her out of hospital. It is extremely costly to put her in a hospital bed.




  • The actual quantities are pretty small

    In pure, stable form, yes. A hundred or so grams released in my house won’t be noticed or cause any problems.

    But a few hundred grams of burnt fluorine hydrocarbons? 😬 That’s a whole other story.

    Most modern domestic fridges stick with a plain hydrocarbon refrigerant anyway (akin to butane) these days.

    I’m yet to see R600a in Australian domestic fridges, I thought we were lagging in that department? Can you just get them at retailers now?

    if you’ve got burning refrigerant there are much bigger problems going on seeing as the refrigerant circuit is hermetically sealed

    Strong disagree xD Inhaling burning fluorine compounds > fridge not cooling any more

    That kind of thing would also provoke a product safety recall.

    I’m not diagnosing the most likely cause of a normal fridge failure, but considering some interesting causes that align with the unusual scenario depicted in the article. Don’t panic, I’m not going to go all “fridge bad” on you.