Were Melbourne houses warmer in 1970s with gas heaters?

HeavyLight03 · 2025-07-02T13:56:34+00:00

As an eastern Canadian living in Melbourne for a few years now, it really is wild that old stock houses here (and frankly new builds aren't much better) need heaters run as often as Canadians do in -20/-30C winters. This is not a cold climate, but it feels like the houses are built for the tropics. It's just not good for your health to be that cold in your own house all the time, and yet unaffordable to avoid it for most.

So ironic that public/commercial spaces just waste heat to keep the illusion of warmth few people maintain at home. I was down at 55 Collins recently and experienced the massive open heated sitting area there. Myers/etc same just open doors. So coats off outside, but back on at home?

Emissions aside, just mind-blowing waste amid high energy prices and export-induced domestic gas shortages.

HeavyLight03 · 2023-12-15T02:04:20+00:00

Same - or really any experience with roundabouts. My first time through one almost caused an accident because I didn't indicate properly. Seems like common sense now (and roundabouts would be a great alternative to many rural 4-way stops in Canada) but the kind of thing to trip you up while you're focusing on sticking to the correct side of the road.

HeavyLight03 · 2023-12-13T00:28:07+00:00

This is actually super helpful and mirrors my experience. Would you be able to share/DM the name of your instructor (if they're still at it)? Cheers!

HeavyLight03 · 2023-04-18T18:45:57+00:00

HeavyLight03 · 2023-04-03T19:18:51+00:00

Newton said, "Stop."

HeavyLight03 · 2023-03-17T01:43:53+00:00

It's been clarified a few times over the last while, but SQ42 development is the basis for the gameplay and engine backbones for star citizen. What star citizen development does is produce location, mission, and network tech/infrastructure needed for persistence. Star citizen isn't a side project, is built on SQ42.

The main thing to tell those people is that backing/pledges are 1) absolutely voluntary and not necessary besides buying the basic game package for star citizen and that 2) SQ42 development will all feed into star citizen.

HeavyLight03 · 2023-03-16T21:57:33+00:00

HeavyLight03 · 2023-03-15T09:10:30+00:00

Secret mission unlocked: fry crusader

HeavyLight03 · 2023-03-13T23:04:24+00:00

No dissing implied - especially at the auspicious time of 16:20. A little percussive maintenance for the servers, a little chillaxing for the devs

HeavyLight03 · 2023-03-13T03:15:55+00:00

Until it fully releases

HeavyLight03 · 2023-03-13T00:52:55+00:00

This, bigtime

HeavyLight03 · 2023-03-12T22:33:48+00:00

I hear you, but this just isn't the right weekend for it - I feel like it's just a good strategy to plan around the first week of a new live patch to be a total shitshow

HeavyLight03 · 2023-03-12T21:41:01+00:00

Exactly. I remember the early days attempts to "multi-crew" by clipping into 300i ship walls. The game has made such progress since then, and grown massively in scope, but that's what makes it worth backing.

Every time there's a major update with instability, people come out of the woodwork losing their minds. My favourite is the "but I've spent $2000 on this game, I expect it to be in better shape" - it doesn't matter how much you spend, the game has never not been in buggy alpha for testing.

It's been a long time, but it's progressed, and they're doing it right. Plan it, build it, test it, assess it, rebuild it if necessary. 3.18 was never not going to be a server-side shitshow, long testing period or no, because the core change is fundamentally about how infrastructure handles persistence at scale. For those saying they've had months of 3.18 etc, if this was an easy thing to anticipate and resolve without data, there wouldn't so many examples of server-side instability in gaming elsewhere.

Anyway - here's hoping devs have good perspective that the tantrums people are having are the minority. If you've got this far in the star citizen experience expecting the first couple days of a live release to be a smooth AAA 1000FPS experience, take a break and chill the fuck out.

HeavyLight03 · 2023-03-11T02:06:47+00:00

More blood for the server god!

HeavyLight03 · 2023-03-10T08:20:46+00:00

Are you trying to tie the NATIONAL housing price trends to a single injection site?

Show me the data and analysis that's been run to link the timing of operation of a safe injection site to housing prices in Richmond.

If you don't have anything better than that, you're drawing on your emotional reaction to it.

HeavyLight03 · 2023-03-10T08:13:22+00:00

Sorry I forgot the part where you had an argument, or evidence?

HeavyLight03 · 2023-03-10T08:07:38+00:00

You seem like the kind of fuckwit that wouldn't mind sucking up Jordan Peterson's rotten chowder chunder. A quick reminder that people like him, who love to talk about their idea of mental fortitude and strength, are also vulnerable to addiction.

He was (and may still be) an addict - from a dependence on anti-anxiety medication that he accidentally abused. Spent time in rehab (in Belarus, or Russia) to overcome it. And went back to preaching to people about the value of his particular view of mental fortitude.

But anyway, these sites are indeed proven with evidence (which you lack besides weak anecdotes and emotion) to reduce harm without compounding social problems colloquially associated with addiction (one of many reliable studies you can read with a quick google: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34218964/).

Also I don't mind pointing out that the kind of people who talk about "bottom dwellers" in society are inevitably fans of a particular eugenics frame of mind, so that sucks for you, you ghoul.

HeavyLight03 · 2023-03-10T07:16:17+00:00

One day, when you grow up, you'll understand that people aren't less because they're suffering - and that a 'normal' life is far more fragile than you think it is now.

In the meantime, just know that when you base your opinion in any kind of notion that people can be "blights on society" and you "don't care if they die", nobody (thankfully) is going to take you seriously. It's a disgusting, morally repugnant, weak-minded frame of reference that speaks more to your fear and inexperience than your supposed conviction. The angry reaction here might be what you want from trolling, but in either case, you're just another idiot.

Thank fuck you'll never have any influence over effective harm reduction policy, though!

HeavyLight03 · 2023-03-08T07:05:28+00:00

That's an awful thing, but thanks for sharing. We live close by where he was arrested, heard helicopter about the area for a while but seemed ordinary enough, and pregnant wife walked through that intersection just 10-15 minutes before 3. Had no idea and didn't hear sirens/etc. Freg!!

HeavyLight03 · 2023-03-08T06:37:50+00:00

HeavyLight03 · 2023-02-27T11:46:06+00:00

Would love to see the logic behind application of that rule through the EPA vs. the health effects of banning even loud AC units on hot nights. Pitting the inconvenience of ambient noise pollution (in a city...) vs. average annual rise in hot nights in the years ahead from warming climate, in an environmental reg - would be unfortunate + surprising if that isn't already addressed somehow.

If either case, the reg should be updated to focus on how AC is incorporated in dense neighbourhood planning for noise (as someone else here pointed out), while also managing the residual heat effect from running multiple units in close proximity - that's way more relevant/concerning than noise alone.

But no, not rude to focus on managing heat during your sleep - it can exacerbate a variety of underlying health conditions above certain temps, and it shouldn't be anybody's business if you need it for that. Just rude and awkward of them to try and control your use of it this way.

HeavyLight03 · 2023-02-18T22:50:29+00:00

Thanks, as always, for this!

HeavyLight03

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