It's either a water pipe, an electrical conduit, or a wiring protector plate. In any case, stop drilling and work around it.

Beautiful! What instrument(s) did you use to carve the slate?

Actually, the reason they're textured at all is to hide flaws in taping and bedding the sheetrock. A perfectly smooth sheetrock finish requires more work and more skill and is costly. A heavy texture hides imperfections.

If you've ever recorded music, you'll know that heavy texture does little to reduce echoes. Yes, there's a little diffraction but it's not significant.

My inclination would be to find some cool / funky lightweight cloth to hang. Much easier to put up and take down, and would look worlds better than the overlay options you're considering.

Your first stament is simply incorrect as it concerns advanced fighter aircraft. There is not a single F-16 variant used anywhere in the world that has the full capabilities of their American counterparts. The same holds for any other advanced fighter platform, including the F-35. This includes nuclear carry capability.

Now, that’s completely different than other types of nuclear weapon delivery and I have no expertise in any of that.

As to whether or not the Russians know whether a given F-16 has all the capabilities of the US market aircraft: believe me, they know. But it doesn’t matter, because it’s not the “fully loaded” capabilities that the Russians are worried about, just the basic air superiority and ground attack capabilities that these aircraft afford.

Nukes aren’t the issue with the aircraft possibility, just basic force multiplication.

Any aircraft sold by the US to foreign governments can be "dumbed down" in capability and many are. That certainly includes the nuclear carry capability.

Regardless, I think this position has more to do with the difficulty of long-term logistics support than aircraft capability. While it is possible (and not uncommon) for F-16 units to deploy far from their home bases, long-term support is expensive and complex, and requires a ton of training for maintenance and support engineers.

When you read about a tank system or anti-aircraft missile system needing lots of training, with a fighter aircraft multiply that need by an order of magnitude. It's not that it can't be done, it's just complex and expensive, far beyond the cost of the aircraft itself.

To be clear, the UK does not use F-16 fighters. Never has. It's just an incomplete headline, and should have referenced whatever UK fighter the UK is unwilling to provide to Ukraine. (Probably the Eurofighter Typhoon or its replacement, the F-35B.)

Yeah, I don’t know how you’d know definitively if it’s PEX. The stuff I buy locally ((Home Depot, Texas) is not translucent like what you’re showing but a quick Google search shows that it comes that way. I don’t know of any other kind of plastic used for supply lines (but I’m not a plumber).

Also I saw a reference to PEX-A and PEX-B….. life is never simple!

If that’s PEX supply line, you can cut the line directly below the plastic cap and crimp on a new PEX fitting. You’ll lose a couple inches of length so you may need a longer line to the fixture.

PEX is easy to deal with. I did an extensive plumbing redo in my master bath, all in PEX, and it’s fairly dummy-proof as long as you use the right tools and a go / no-go gauge.

Good luck!

Yeah, I don't think so.

Life imitating art!

Ain't it the truth.

It's always nice when the trash takes itself out.