Because you need to handle terrain other than a clear road. When you live somewhere that regularly gets a foot of snow overnight then having a bit of extra ground clearance is a must for navigating that. You also want a bit of extra ground clearance if you need to go off road regularly. The last thing anyone wants is to be out in the boonies and crack their oil pan on a tree stump or something.

Of course, far more people buy SUVs and trucks than actually need them. Also lite trucks would have been the better solution for most people who do actually need them if the EPA hadn’t killed them with poorly written standards. With the current wheelbase based efficiency requirements we’re left with the choice between sedans that drag the undercarriage on residential speedbumps or a Landbarge 9000 toddler slaughter special with worse sight lines than an abrams tank and the (lack of) fuel efficiency to match.

This makes it sound like it’s probably just a defective detector. Swap it with one that hasn’t been going off and see if that one starts going off too. If it doesn’t then odds are something just failed in it.

You could also just try blowing some air through it to blow out any dust. But it shouldn’t be that dusty after only a year so I’m still leaning towards defective.

Be careful with vitamin D though. That is one of the very very few vitamins that you can actually take too much of because it’s fat soluble, not water soluble, so excessive vitamin D will build up in your fat cells rather than just getting peed out. It’s called vitamin D toxicity (VDT) and it can have some unpleasant neurological effects among other things.

So it’s probably a good idea to get your levels checked anyways just to make sure you’re taking the right amount if you need it.

Find a boss who doesn’t care. So far I’ve never had a boss that insists that I look busy all the time. As long as I’m getting my work done they don’t care what I do. I spend a lot of time at my desk reading books on my phone. If your boss is being an ass about you using your downtime how you want when all of your work is done then that is not someone you want to work for.

As others have already said. Thats a needle valve from a carburator. Theres no question about it. It also isn’t something that falls out. Someone did some lawnmower repair and either was annoyed when they lost it or just pitched the old one in your yard when their parts kit came with a new one. There’s probably not much point in saving it though because they’re dirt cheap and easy to get. Whoever lost it has almost certainly replaced it by now because without that little needle the carburator won’t work and will start pouring gas everywhere.

Crack it open and run s drill through the center of each flash chip.

Our capital class is the leverage.

Welcome to imposter syndrome, it means you’re a professional.

As far as how you can be more comfortable that heavily depends heavily on what your job is. Some jobs have more direct feedback than others. But largely it will just take time. You’re still the new guy from the sound of it so it will take time to learn how your workplace works and what the exact expectations are. In the mean time just remember that as long as you aren’t consistently getting negative feedback on the same things then odds are you’re doing perfectly fine. Doing things wrong ocasionally is expected because you are human, but as long as you are learning from those times then you are already doing better than a lot of people. If nobody is telling you that you aren’t meeting expectations at your reviews then either you are meeting expectations or you have a bad manager.

You say that as a joke but I’m sure there is probably some camgirl is out there selling their “slightly used” toys for more than they bought them for.

Thank you for clarifying because I was expecting a “BOFA dez nutz” joke.

This is a bit of a side note but I remembered you were looking for things to do while you were in MN a while back. If you still are, the National Eagle Center is always fun to visit. It’s in Wabasha which is almost exactly an hour drive from Rochester. It’s also probably a better place to pick up souvenirs.

Not south korean but for me marriage just seems weird. Why should the government be involved at all in my relationship? Why would I do a bunch of paperwork and pay money to get a document that offers very few benefits and could one day become a pain in the ass if my partner and I grow apart for some reason?

If a partner cares about marriage there is nothing keeping me from swapping rings with them and doing a ceremony but I see no reason to get the government involved.

Weve got it at basically every kwiktrip in MN but thats probably because it’s commonly used in seasonal vehicles (ATVs, Boats, Snowmobiles, etc.)

I’m sure enough people bring in electronics filled with roaches or bed bugs that they no longer take any chance when they see even one bug.

My roof only has like a 4" overhang with no sofet so that isn’t an issue in my case.

Yup. With the vermiculite insulation in my attic and the moisture from that vent, I practically have an ideal mold farm up there right now. I need to fix that vent before it gets too much worse.

Weird. Must just be one of those regional things. All of the ones I’ve ever encountered that I know of went out the roof. Good to know going out the side is normal somewhere though.

Now that you mention it I have a dryer vent that’s exactly like that. If something like that works for warm moist air from a dryer then I don’t see why it wouldn’t work for warm moist air from a bathroom.

Theres no sofets on my roof (only has like a 4" overhang) so that shouldn’t be an issue on my house.

Oh definitely. Right now it isn’t economically viable to produce methane in a renewable way when we can just get it from the ground. It’s like how wood is renewable even though clearcutting old growth forests is unsustainable. We can produce methane; it is a renewable resource. We just aren’t using it in a renewable way.