Did they ever figure out WHY" is the real question here. Nobody just bypasses a safety for fun, there's always a story behind it like a bad sensor or a control panel from the Stone Age. Bet the foreman had been dealing with it for months and just snapped one night.

Honestly, I gotta disagree with you there. I've never been that religious about cleaning the lint filter every single time and my dryer still works fine after years. Maybe it depends on the model or what you're drying, but I think the whole "cleaning it every load" thing gets blown way out of proportion. The savings on your bill are real if you let it get really bad, sure, but if you check it every few loads it's not gonna cost you that much extra. Plus, sometimes I forget and the clothes still come out dry within an hour. To me, it's more about a decent habit than some life-or-death necessity.

Went with a used wine fridge off Facebook marketplace and added a computer fan and inkbird controller. Cost me like 80 bucks total and the results have been way better than the bags ever gave me.

My neighbor down the street, Bob, he's got a failing muffler on his truck that you can hear three blocks away, but he was the first to complain when the town banned gas blowers. That 18 percent number is solid, I've seen similar data from other towns where they tracked air quality around schools. @the_oliver hit it, people just want to keep their loud toys sometimes. The dust and pollen thing is a separate issue, that's just yard work in general.

Man I ruined a whole packer chasing that ghost of a smoke... learned the hard way that if you can see it in the daylight, you're probably doing it wrong.