• cattywampas
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    21 days ago

    Survivorship bias. Most 40-year-old fridges are not working anymore.

    • shalafi
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      21 days ago

      Bet they would be if people put a little effort into fixing them. Now people throw them out at the slightest issue, or just to get another for aesthetic value. Only reason I tossed my old fridge, which was newish, was that I could no longer fight the 4-5 separate issues it had.