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  • 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.





  • 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.






  • Fosheze@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldplease enjoy
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    2 months ago

    Some are picky but even those you can almost always train them to eat pre killed. Usually the most you need to do is just warm the rat up and wiggle it with a tongs. Snakes are pretty dumb so that’s enough for it to look alive to them. It’s a whole lot more convient to have a freezer full or rats than to keep live rats. Not to mention live prey can be dangerous to the snake; it usually isn’t but before I finally got my snake to start eating prekilled one of the live rats I fed her gave her a scratch on her eye cap.



  • Fosheze@lemmy.worldtoAutism@lemmy.worldSocializing
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    Well just out of curiosity I took an AQ test and got a 20. While of course that doesn’t mean much on it’s own I should probably talk to my therapist about being properly tested. Being diagnosed wouldn’t really change anything but it certainly would explain some things.


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    This community is always a trip because every time I’m scrolling through all and I see a post like this that is completely relatable there is a 50/50 chance it is from this community. I didn’t think I was autistic but y’all are really making me start to wonder.


  • There is a lot of info they need that frankly you can’t trust the average client to accurately give over the phone. They need to know what your walls are made of, are they concrete, brick, wood or metal stud? Are they going to need masonry tools? What is the interior wall material; asbestos reinforced plaster is still not uncommon in older houses and if they’re working with that the the price goes up dramatically? Is there electricity run to that location already or will they need a new circuit? If there is electricity run to that location does the existing circuit have capacity to handle the load? Is there even available space to mount the new unit? Is it in a neighborhood where it will need a cage around it to deter theives? And that’s only some of the info they need.

    About the only accurate price they could give you over the phone is the cost of the unit itself which you could also just find via a google search. The actual labor and other costs will vary by orders of magnitude depending on certain conditions.


  • Unless you’re just talking about a minisplit or something $5k is remarkably cheap for a full AC install. Theres a big difference between throwing a window unit in and having an actual AC unit installed. You can’t just slap a second compressor on an existing condenser. It would need a second condenser or an upgrade and second circuit run for your existing one, plus running refrigerant pipes, likely running new wiring, ventilation, controls, refeigerant costs and system tuning. A window AC unit isn’t even in the same ballpark as far as price goes.




  • Fosheze@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldLiving the dream
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    Hydroxazine is an antihistamine (in the same family as diphenhydramine) which is frequently prescribed for anxiety relief and as a sleep aid. It is safe and usually well tolerated. While there is addiction potential like there is for diphenhydramine, it is far far less addictive than benzos. An adult can safely take up to 100mg up to 4 times per day for anxiety relief. I can’t find dosages for insomnia anywhere but that probably because most people get completely knocked out by 30-50mg let alone 100mg. For reference, I’m a 260lb dude and 50mg will take me from anxiety attack to entirely unconsious in less than 30 minutes; a friend of mine says 25mg is enough to knock them out. Being an anticholinergic drug it isn’t great for long term use but it is still a whole lot better in that regard than benzos.

    I know from my mother who is a nurse midwife that high dosages of hydroxazine are frequently given to women in labor when it’s going to be several hours until the baby actually starts ariving to let them sleep through most of the labor. If it can make someone sleep through labor pains I can’t imagine insomnia it couldn’t handle.