Take two.

If that doesn’t work, the channel on YouTuber is “Driving 4 Answers”, and the title of the video is, “The Only Video You’ll Ever Need to Watch to Know how 4 Stroke and 2 Stroke Engines Work and Differ”.

I don’t think that opinions will necessarily change even if NATO decides to use a new rifle. Even if the US and NATO eventually adopt the Sig XM7 in 6.8x51mm, AR-15s will still be cheap, ammo plentiful, and they’ll all still be on the same standard. (Plus, the 6.8x51mm cartridge is a real barrel burner; if you’re a higher volume shooter, you’ll get maybe 5000 rounds out of it before accuracy is shot–pardon the pun–to hell.) But, we’ll see. So far the design has stuck around and been refined for over 50 years. Hell, people still use the 1911, and that’s over 100 years old.

The issue with BCA is QC. Sure, some of them, maybe most, are great. Then you get issues like a barrel that has no rifling.

I wouldn’t suggest sanding a feed ramp, but polishing one can help; a little bit of green jewelers rouge and felt tip on a rotary tool should do it.

This should explain why two strokes are the way they are, and how you can potentially mitigate some of the problems..

Since you don’t have a timing chain on a two stroke, you’d need something else to run a fuel pump.

If engine design interests you, there’s a lot of neat stuff in this channel.

Based on the top level comments here - yeah, they still think that Harris is exactly the same as Trump, and have zero regrets.

I do use a chainsaw for cutting wood to heat. (Although this winter is unpleasantly warm. Thanks, climate change…) There is definitely no way that any electric saw would be able to keep up, esp. since you can’t readily drag 500y of extension cord behind you. Chainsaws could absolutely be made cleaner though. Unfortunately, I think that 2-stroke engines have a much higher power:weight ratio than 4-stroke, so we’re stuck using gas mixed with oil, which pumps out smog.

For anyone that doesn’t know, dog food used to contain a lot of bone meal; as dog poop degraded (?), the bone meal would remain. Hence white dog poop. I think that this changed due to tighter regulations on pet food.

Proprioception is a weird one. If you lay in bed very, very still (or floating in an isolation tank), you very quickly lose the sense of where your limbs are in relation to the rest of you. It’s almost like a form of self-hypnosis; it’s a very strange sensation. My perception is that it only functions well when you are moving.

There’s also the part where steam–under pressure–can be much hotter than boiling water.

If you want a gun that ticks all the boxes, get a 12 gauge shotgun

Disagree.

First, ammo starts at a minimum of 44cpr for 00 buck. Second, unless you get mag fed shotguns–which have their own problems–you’re getting a maximum of about 7 rounds. Third, if you’re talking about pump guns, it’s pretty easy to short stroke one in a high-stress situation. Gas guns are a different matter, but they’re pickier about ammo. Fourth–again, unless you have a mag fed shotgun–reloading is not nearly as quick and easy as it is with any firearm with a magazine.

If it’s locked up, you can’t knock on the charging handle or emergency kick the charging handle to clear it.

You mortar them; that usually gets it. I’ve had to do that a few times.

Yeah, a detail strip and clean is a bastard. But you don’t really need to do those very often. A field strip and clean is sufficient most of the time.

Fat, slow .45 ACP punches though because it’s heavy. They start at about 230gr v. the 115gr for 9mm.

Wut? AR-10s have different competing standards, and tend to be strangely finicky. (I’ve got an AR-10 in 6.5CM; it’s really picky about ammunition.) The AR-10 was never adopted by the military; I think that you’re thinking of the M-14.

AKs also ‘just work’, most people will never have to hand-fit anything on an AK

That’s because it’s going to come assembled (hopefully). But if you ever need to replace a part? Good luck, because you’re going to need it. OTOH, when I replaced the barrel, hand guard, trigger, BCG, etc. on my rifle, it was all very much plug-n-play.

ammo prices for AK are at parity with ammo prices for AR

They most definitely are not. Ammo prices for 5.56x45mm NATO start as low as 23.7cpr, if you’re willing to shoot reman; if you want new, then 30.5cpr. Ammunition for 7.62x39mm starts at 38.9cpr, and that’s steel case bi-metal bullets. If you want brass cases, they start at 45cpr. That means that a single 30 round magazine costs about $9.15 for an AR, and $11.67-$13 for an AK.

The majority of people aren’t going to see a major functional difference between the two

If you mean the majority of people that buy a rifle and then never use it, sure. If you’re talking about people that actually go out and shoot, you’re definitely wrong.

An easy example is ballistics. I have a 50/200y zero. I have to aim low and 100y by about 2", and at 500y I’ll have about a 45" holdover. My LPVO has hash marks for ranges, and it’s mostly right. An AK variant usually has a 25y zero; at 500y, your holdover is at least 80", and as much as 120", depending on the ammunition. You aren’t likely going to find too many LPVOs that have holdover marks calibrated for an AK, so you’ll probably be eyeballing it with a red dot and a magnifier. You can make hits out to 500y with an AK, but it’s going to be a lot harder.

AR-15s are popular because there’s a single standard, and all the parts made should fit that standard, and more-or-less work. I can buy a barrel from any one of ten or more manufacturers, and I know that it’s going to fit on my receiver (although I might need a different gas tube). You can’t do that with a Ruger Mini-14, you definitely can’t do it with any of the fuck-knows-how-many AK variants. ARs do have their own shortcomings it’s true, but all rifles have shortcomings; the AR-15 platform does a pretty good job of balancing the competing needs and desires.

That too.

I think that I originally paid about $550 for my S&W M&P 15 Sport 2 (although not many parts are original anymore); you can get a perfectly serviceable Palmetto State Armory AR-15 for $450. An AK is likely going to start at around $700.

As someone much more clever than I said, the real transgender AK is the AR that’s chambered in7.62x39mm.

FWIW, IIRC it’s only bulletproof to subsonic 9mm. If you’re using normal range ammo (115gr), it’s not going to stop the bullet. It’s definitely not going to stop any rifle more powerful than a .22lr.

And super-rigid body panels are actually a bad thing; it likely doesn’t have crumple zones, which means that more energy is going into the passengers in a crash.

People: please do not carry an AK. Just get an AR. ARs have interchangeable parts, ammunition is cheap, and aside from Bear Creek Arsenal, they’re going to just work. AKs require significant hand fitting and there’s no single standard, ammunition prices have risen sharply since the cheap milsurp ammo flow got cut off, and at the cheaper end they tend to be dangerous to the user. Yes, I know that AKs have a reputation got working in adverse conditions, but that reputation dates to the Vietnam war, when the AR was a new platform; modern ARs are far, far more reliable and accurate than an AK.

You can still get an AK for fun, but don’t don’t treat it like your serious gun.

As one should. Carry on.

True enough. And Trump could very well accelerate that with his economic temper tantrums. Still, I don’t know what currency BRICS would settle on; certainly not the ruble, not after Putin cratered the whole country’s economy. The yuan?

Here’s my $.02.

I got the version with the very light touch keys, because they’re silent, and I’m not really a huge fan of super-loud keyboards.

It’s hard. The actuation force is so light that you have to be VERY precise in your typing, because accidentally brushing against another key is probably going to cause a typo. You also must be absolutely spot-on with your touch typing. I learned to type, uh, over 35 years ago, and I’ve been in the bad habit of mostly using three fingers on each hand to type. You absolutely cannot do that with the Glove 80. If you have ANY bad typing habits, it’s going to show up very, very quickly.

I do a lot of work in Illustrator and Photoshop; key combinations that I use all the time are not nearly as convenient anymore (e.g. ctrl + alt + i to resize and image) due to the location of some of the function keys being radically moved. The lack of a number pad means that I really need to pick up a separate one, because I work far, far faster in spreadsheets using the number pad.

I’m about four weeks in, I think?, and I’m def. not up to speed yet. OTOH, I’m getting better. I don’t think that some things will ever be easy for me, and it’s def. not a keyboard to use for gaming, but I think that I’ll eventually get back to where I am with a more traditional keyboard.

I’m very grateful that my parents have never lived in the Utah bubble; they saw right through Trump in 2016, and, for the first time in their lives, voted for someone other than a Republican.

Keep in mind that Benson was hard right; he would have thought that John Birchers were leftists. He and his faction may not have led the church for very long, but they had a profound influence on it.