Cool, thank you

Make and model? Sounds decent.

Super off-topic, but I had a similar experience with a pair of hiking boots. My understanding is, that urethane material can indeed experience a dry rot. And, anecdotally, it seems to be worse with shoes that sit idle for a while instead of being worn with some regularity.

Wankpanzer has just entered my lexicon - amazing

As messy as apostrophes on an iPhone, apparently

This is a succinct and accurate depiction of K-12 in Arizona today. There are charter schools, which are free to attend and open to the public*, but operated privately and at a profit despite being taxpayer funded. And there are private schools, where students pay tuition. Recently AZ Lege allowed significant taxpayer funding for students to attend private schools, and as OP notes this is almost exclusively going to rich kids already attending fancy schools, not the stated purpose of helping poor kids attend better schools. Finally there is a significant homeschool movement, which fine, but now has enormous public financing. Look up some string of Arizona homeschool voucher legos for more info. And miss me with, but Legos teach STEM. I love Lego - the state doesnâ(TM)t need to buy them for you if you choose to homeschool. Itâ(TM)s a mess.

Thatâ(TM)s a good example of where voice is better. For me though, I donâ(TM)t need that built into the car! Spotify tracks and Google maps destinations can be handled through my phone, which interfaces via CarPlay or similar. I donâ(TM)t need need the vehicle to have that redundantly included, especially at cost of functional knobs and buttons.

Good thoughts - thanks!

It ain't pretty. It ain't fast. It ain't a lot of things. What it *is*, though, is a mechanically-simple, easy-to-maintain aircraft that does exactly what it means to do, does it well, and is not inconvenienced in the slightest.

It can absorb a ridiculous amount of abuse from bad guys, it can loiter on-scene longer than any comparable aircraft, it can get low enough and slow enough to see exactly who to kill (not the good guys, not the civilians), and it does all this with lower operational costs than most other aircraft out there.

I drive a pickup truck. An Audi R8 is much sexier, but for daily operation, not worrying if I get dinged in the parking lot, and getting ish done, I'll stick with the truck.

Sorry to self-reply: Looks like you are right and spent rounds are recycled, not ejected. And, looks like it has been that way since day 1. Mea culpa and good call!

The ammo feed may be linkless - I can't confirm one way or the other - but the round itself absolutely has a cartridge housing that holds the powder / propellant. It looks exactly like a standard rifle shell, upscaled quite a bit. I doubt the plane stores the expended brass, so the tink-tink-tink sound is entirely plausible. Source: The dummy A-10 round sitting on my bookshelf.

I'm weeping just from the correct use of apostrophes in your post. Kudos, good sir.

Too much gold never slowed down Mr. T. I pity the fool.