The planet's average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.

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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I work on vehicles/equipment that are 30-50 years old that are much more reliable than the vehicles of the past 20 years.

I think you're confusing durability for reliability here.

30-50 year old vehicles will go forever, but usually need small repairs fairly often. Modern vehicles will do 200k-300k km with no problems, and then everything bad starts happening, because it's not like anyone maintains them.

So the 30-50 year old ones are more durable, but the newer ones are more reliable. Until they've reached the end of their useful life, that is.

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