In my experience, the “quickest” are more fuel efficient than the “fuel efficient” routes, which take me through residential areas (where every intersection is protected, meaning a stop sign in at least 1 direction) or stair-stepping on county roads where the speed-up/slow-down cycle negates the benefit of driving on slower roads.

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The big advantage of brrrp is simplicity. Pull trigger, things go asplodsy and/or turn into pink mist. Close air support, which the 'hog kicked ass at in the sandbox, needs to be reliable and simple. With the proliferation of GPS jamming technologies and other countermeasures, simple and cheap should carry the day.

I don’t know if anything is as physically survivable as the A-10. Certainly not some modern composite that will be grounded for fractures after taking small arms fire. Also, the boots on the ground love the support provided by the A-10, as do the congress critters whose bases are in their districts.

Just rambling thoughts from a village idiot, not looking to start a fight

“They hope it will replace the A-10”

Aaaahahahahaha "Lets give it no BBBRRRRRRRPPP, a low service ceiling, use the engines as shielding / flak generators for the pilots, and hope to sell it as an A-10!

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Hardee’s fried-and-coated-in-cinnamon-and-sugar apple pies.

80’s-90’s McDonald’s apple danish

Yeah, change the fucking record already, right?

I think you conveyed it excellently - not solely because it was the exact thought I had. I would have used more clumsy wording though.

Noah, get the boat!

Are you kidding? OP is getting us to write their Master’s thesis in Marketing right now!

Don’t forget the taking the whole mysticism behind the Force and reducing it to: “wow, you got quite the bacterial load there, bud.”

The original trilogy. A decade of history and nostalgia. “lol, it’s space flu”.

Fuck you and everything you know and love, George. You’re dead to me.

The “special director’s anniversary editions” or whatever the hell they were called were the worst bullshit insult to those of us that grew up with the original trilogy. Fuck you, George Lucas.

Oh, so like a regular automatic transmission.

My 2012 caravan 6s-auto just ate itself last month. Minimum $4k. The van isn’t worth that.

Genuinely curious; aside from required maintenance, you don’t seem too overly jazzed about CVTs - may I ask why?

I may be waaaay off here, but the internet as it exists is pretty much built on DNS, isn’t it? I mean, the whole idea of DARPANet back in the 60s and 70s was to build a robust, redundant, and self-healing network to survive nuclear armageddon, and except when humans f it up (intentional or otherwise), it generally does what it says on the tin.

Now, there’s arguments to beade about securing the protocol, but to rip and replace the routing protocols, I think you’d have to call it something other than the Internet.

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