I lived in the Minneapolis area for many years, so I can provide a little insight. First off, you will be fine through September. Early November is when snow that lasts for more than a day or two starts to become a real possibility.

-Tires: Your best bet, even with 4WD/AWD is to have a second set of snow tires mounted on cheap steel wheels. (4WD/AWD doesn't do a damn thing for steering or stopping distance!!!) Swap those over around early November and back to your "regular" tires around late April. If you live in a suburban area, roads will get plowed and sanded quickly, so you are probably fine with GOOD all season tires. But if you're considering an exurban/rural area I would certainly recommend snow tires. Studded tires and chains are not allowed on highways in MN as far as I remember, but the laws in rural areas could be different.

-Oil: Check your owners manual. At worst you may be recommended to swap from 10W-30 to 5W-30 or something, but it doesn't get cold enough for long enough to be a strict need.

-Block heaters: With modern vehicles, it's more of a luxury than a requirement unless you are living in the northern part of the state. If you have an attached garage, it should be a non-issue.

-Other: Always keep a bit of warm weather gear in your car. This goes triply if you live in a rural area. Imagine what you'd want if you were stranded for 4 hours at -20F. Gloves, a hat, some handwarmers, a small blanket at minimum. A small shovel and a bag of sand or kitty litter can help you out if you are mildly stuck in snow. Get the good windshield washer fluid, the stuff that's rated to -40F. You'll go through a ton driving on the freeway after salt has been laid down, and it is MISERABLE if it starts to freeze up on your windshield.

Yep, I was wearing that clown makeup too. Dems have not impressed me much lately with being able to deliver a coherent and effective message, so I was fully prepared for a shitshow of disarray if/when Biden dropped out.

It was very surprising to me how effectively they were able to leave Trump stumbling just as he seemed to be on the upswing. The utter lack of disorder around it almost feels like Biden was planning to drop out of the race all along, just waiting for the right moment... but that's probably giving him too much credit.

people who liked to keep an even achievement score

Wait, what? Was this some kind of meta game people played, or just some weird compulsion like having to have the volume set to multiples of five?

This one took me a second... 😆

It's paralleling a toddler who has to be dragged, crying and screaming, away from the toy aisle.

This looks like what you'd get if you asked an AI to produce a picture of Janeway after feeding it a training set consisting entirely of Ben Garrison's Trump cartoons.

I kind of forgot about the Queen.... Totally agree.

I'm in this picture and I abhor it with every iota of my being.

But not enough to change.

also companies make anything beyond basic troubleshooting nearly impossible

I hadn't really thought about this before, but it's a pretty good point. Not just the companies who make the tech, but employers and providers seem do just about everything in their power to get you to submit a ticket or (even worse) chat with "support" rather than give you the tools to solve the damn problem yourself.

And the menus/settings you need to make more than superficial changes to your device get buried deeper every year.

If enough people love it, then full service pumps will still hang around as an option. Personally as someone who lived in Minneapolis for 20 years, full service pumps would have been fucking amazing in the winter, but mandating them by law is just stupid.

The fact that full service doesn't exist even in the frozen tundra of MN leads me to believe very few people are actually willing to pay extra for it.

They're getting downvoted because "Is this place a ____ echo chamber where dissenters get downvoted?" is a pretty shit topic for an AskLemmy thread.

On the chance you're not just making a funny - The walls of your house keep inside stuff inside and outside stuff outside. A thermos is just a wall for heat, whether that heat is trying to get in or out.