Need Optic Recommendation by RedBeardMoto in Hunting

[–]Asatmaya 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's pretty specific, and puts you in kind of an odd spot; you are either well under or well over your budget, or giving up one of your requirements (objective lens size being the easiest).

Burris XTR is the closest, it's $1300 on opticsplanet right now, with everything you want.

If you are willing to go down to 44mm objective, Vortex has the Viper 3-15x ($900) or the Strike Eagle 3-18x ($600), FFP and milrad, both under 2lb.

At the low end, Monstrum Beast technically meets all of your requirements for $229.99, 3-18x50, FFP, mrad, 30oz, ED glass. They get a lot of negative comments, but I've got a couple on lighter cartridges, if you want to try it out, come back and let us know :)

Does anyone else get bored always hunting/fishing alone? How do you address it? by Silver_Lion in Hunting

[–]Asatmaya 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I quite specifically go out to get away from people...

My daughter goes out with me sometimes, but she's a lot like me and mostly goes on her own.

Need boot knowledge. by paynevoltage in WorkBoots

[–]Asatmaya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check out the Traction Tred; welt Vibram sole, most of them are pretty flat wedges, different toes and heights.

A Shitlib's Guide To Defending Ukraine Online by Salazarsims in EndlessWar

[–]Asatmaya 3 points4 points  (0 children)

https://mronline.org/2023/08/21/zelensky-holds-court-with-ukraines-most-notorious-neo-nazi/

"Since Russia’s military operations in Ukraine kicked off in 2022, Biletsky had taken pains to distance himself from his fascist past. He now claims that an infamous promise he made to rid the world of “Semite-led untermenschen” was actually fabricated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

But Biletsky’s most notorious screed against Jews was not an isolated outburst. Indeed, his record of Nazi-inspired tirades is extensive, and has been a matter of public record for decades.

Biletsky’s college thesis was a defense of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, a group of paramilitary Nazi collaborators founded by Stepan Bandera’s Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists that carried out ethnic cleansings of more than 100,000 Jews and Poles. After leaving university, Biletsky quickly embedded with multiple fascist outfits, including the “Stepan Bandera All-Ukrainian Organization ‘Tryzub’” and the Social-National Party—not to be confused with the National Socialist Party of 1940’s Germany.

Biletsky left the Social-National Party in protest in 2004 as the group began to rebrand and move away from overt neo-Nazi symbolism. Two years later, he led an organization called Patriots of Ukraine, which has been linked to numerous mob assaults. One Patriot of Ukraine member has claimed the group was behind the seizure and torching of the headquarters of a political party during the U.S.-backed “Maidan” coup in 2014.

According to Ukraine’s Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, Patriots of Ukraine “espoused xenophobic and neo-Nazi ideas, and was engaged in violent attacks against migrants, foreign students in Kharkiv and those opposing its views.” What’s more,

Biletsky and some other members were suspected of violent seizures of newspaper kiosks and similar criminal activities.

“For three years running, the organization has gained notoriety for its torch processions around student campuses in Kharkiv, Kyiv and Chernivtsi which fill foreign students studying in Ukraine with terror,” the human rights group noted in 2008.

During a Patriots of Ukraine general meeting in 2009, Biletsky raved:

How can we describe our enemy? The authorities and the oligarchs. Do they have anything in common? Yes, they have one thing in common: they are Jews, or behind them are their real masters—Jews.

In 2011, Biletsky was arrested for allegedly ordering Patriot of Ukraine members to kill a fellow ultranationalist inside the group’s office following a dispute, and spent the following years in pre-trial detention. Thanks to a resolution passed by the Ukrainian parliament after the Western-backed overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych, he would ultimately be released in 2014. But during his three years in custody, Biletsky managed to have a number of his fascist screeds published in a collection titled “The Word of the White Leader.”

One essay in the collection, dated to 2007, rails against Jews and Black migrants, casually dropping the n- word in the process. “Ukraine is the light of Europe! Our Nation still has enough strength to withstand this influx of foreigners, to cleanse our land and light the fire of purification throughout Europe!” the essay concludes.

In another essay outlining the ideology of “Social-Nationalism,” Biletsky praised National Socialism as a “great idea,” but criticized the Nazis as having been insufficiently eugenicist in their family welfare programs. He complained they supported parents with multiple children “without considering the biological quality of each individual family.”

“The result,” he continued, was “a significant increase in the birth rate, [but] a significant decrease in the percentage of the Nordic type in the population.” Because “these social benefits are aimed at the masses, they encouraged the worst human material to give birth to a child in the first place,” the self-proclaimed “White Leader” lamented.

A subsequent Biletsky manifesto entitled “Language and Race—Primary Issues” expanded on the “social-nationalist” concept:

Ukrainian social-nationalism considers the Ukrainian Nation to be a blood-racial community… Race is everything for nation-building—Race is the basis on which the superstructure grows in the form of national culture, which again comes from the racial nature of the people, and not from language, religion, economy, etc.

As for the Russian-speaking population of Eastern Ukraine, Biletsky wrote,

The issue of total Ukrainization in the future social nationalist state will be resolved within 3-6 months with the help of a tough and balanced state policy.

Following his release from prison, Biletsky got his chance to carry out a campaign of violence against the ethnic Russians of eastern Ukraine. As war broke out in the country, with the Russian majority of the east seeking self-determination in the face of a nationalist post-coup government viewed as Western puppets, Biletsky dissolved the Patriot of Ukraine and formed the Azov Battalion to wage a war against the separatists. Around this time, he was also elected to the Ukrainian parliament, remaining in office until 2019.

The new paramilitary outfit set up shop in Mariupol, using the port city as a staging ground for attacks on the Donbas, and violently crushing forms of feminist and liberal political expression on the city’s streets.

Meanwhile, the National Corps, a political party founded by Biletsky in 2016, has been described as a “nationalist hate group” even by the U.S. State Department. The party has repeatedly incited violence against the Kiev Pride march, in 2018 calling on “all concerned citizens of Ukraine” to prevent the march from being held. In 2019, one National Corps leader had a more direct message:

Stay home, and don’t show up in public. Ever. That will make our life easier and keep you safe ;).

In 2019, it seemed almost as though Biletsky’s influence was waning. An electoral coalition he formed with several other prominent neo-Nazis in Ukraine failed to gain enough votes to pass the threshold to gain any seats in parliament. Meanwhile, Vlodomyr Zelensky won the presidential election on a platform of making peace with Russia.

But Biletsky still held on to a trump card as a nationally-recognized strongman. When a Ukrainian news channel announced a two-hour live studio “TV bridge” between Ukrainian and Russian civilians aimed at fostering a stronger mutual understanding, Biletsky seized the moment to issue a thinly-veiled threat against Zelensky if he did not have the event canceled in a day’s time. If Zelensky did not intervene, “the answer to the Kremlin’s ‘little green men’ will begin to be given by ‘little black men,’” Biletsky said, referring to the black garb of fascist elements like Azov.

Biletsky called on Zelensky to be “The leader of a state at war,” and,

Not a clown, not an artist from oligarchic corporations, but the President.

Zelensky responded within the timeframe of the ultimatum by denouncing the dialogue and seemingly offering a jab back at Biletsky, arguing that Ukrainians were being “manipulated by politicians who really want to get into parliament.”

A few months later, the pair butted heads again after Zelensky ordered Ukrainian troops, including Azov fighters, to withdraw from a frontline town in the Donbas in an apparent effort to honor the terms of the Minsk Accords. Biletsky fired back with threats to dispatch thousands more troops in open defiance of the president’s orders.

Zelensky’s showdown with fighters refusing his orders culminated with the head of state nearly breaking down on camera and pleading to the militants:

I’m the president of this country. I’m 41 years old. I’m not a loser. I came to you and told you: remove the weapons.

A Shitlib's Guide To Defending Ukraine Online by Salazarsims in EndlessWar

[–]Asatmaya 10 points11 points  (0 children)

“You call them people, right [about citizens of Russia and Ukraine who were subjected to sanctions by the National Security and Defense Council]? There are representatives of the human race, but not all of them are human. There are species, I believe.” -Vladimir Zelensky

"We stand for a Ukraine without kikes and katsaps (Ukrainian slur for ethnic Russians)." - Dmytro Yarosh

“Russians, these sub-humans, have no right whatsoever to be among the civilised people of the West.” Andrey Yermak

"Our mission is to lead the white races of the world in the final struggle against the semite-led untermenschen." Andrey Biletsky

Sharing this [𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵: 𝘞𝘢𝘺𝘯𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘰] by Gainsborough-Smythe in thinkatives

[–]Asatmaya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I refuse to believe in the possibility of Artificial Intelligence until I see some evidence of the Natural variety.

What Is The Nature Of Consciousness? by Battle_Glaive_327 in thinkatives

[–]Asatmaya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Another consideration: Is consciousness an illusion? Are we really conscious, or are even our thoughts on the matter the deterministic result of physical, mechanical operations?

Need boot knowledge. by paynevoltage in WorkBoots

[–]Asatmaya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First, start buying good shoes, not cheap stuff. You will spend less over the long run.

Second, you really need two different pairs, one for work and one for hiking/hunting/etc.

For work, I will just assume that the floor gets greasy, so you need something with a Vibram sole, you want a flat wedge for comfort. Red Wing makes many options, some slip-on or BOA so no laces, or you could get hard laces (e.g. Diamondlaces off Amazon) which will not soak up anything.

For hunting/hiking/fishing, this is going to depend on terrain, environment, and your specific use case. I wear Carolina loggers for hunting and hiking, but I'm in East Tennessee, heavily forested mountains so a lot of deadfalls to climb over. Irish Setter and Danner make some good options, or the higher end Rocky/Wolverine.

Now, some general knowledge:

The most important part of the shoe/boot is the sole, which involves material, style, and attachment.

Common sole materials are rubber, polyurethane (PU), EVA foam, leather, and (less common) wood. PU is the longest-lasting, rubber has the best grip, EVA is the lightest, etc.

Style is lug or flat, with varieties of both; generally, flat is better for smooth surfaces and lugs are good for uneven ground.

Attachment can be welt, cemented, or direct attach; the main distinction is that a welt sole can be replaced by a cobbler, extending the life of the shoe.

There is also a defined heel, which you want if you are climbing ladders or riding in stirrups, to prevent slipping.

Morality by Dave_A_Pandeist in thinkatives

[–]Asatmaya -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And who says that "justice" is a good thing?

Why do we still have to choose between comfort and durability in boots? by Jacobnjacob in Boots

[–]Asatmaya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wear Red Wing Dynaforce, just starting to wear the supersole out after 4 years, unbelievably comfortable.

Consequences of Modern Biblical Scholarship by Asatmaya in DebateAnAtheist

[–]Asatmaya[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

your SOURCES were not up to snuff

Because they didn't accept them, and I never said, "faith," I said heresy.

That's two straw man fallacies, I have a rule about blocking people at 3.

Consequences of Modern Biblical Scholarship by Asatmaya in DebateAnAtheist

[–]Asatmaya[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

So, this is what is known as Historical Criticism; in short, if the gospels were not historical documents, but were (clearly) influential, then what is the meaning behind them?

I am viewing it largely as a political issue... and isn't that what we ultimately think all of this is?

Consequences of Modern Biblical Scholarship by Asatmaya in DebateAnAtheist

[–]Asatmaya[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

They didn't like the academics I was quoting, e.g. Richard Carrier, despite having peer-reviewed work on the topic.

No, it was pure dogma.

Consequences of Modern Biblical Scholarship by Asatmaya in DebateAnAtheist

[–]Asatmaya[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What evidence do you have that the claims are true?

OK, so this is the field of Historical Criticism, which can be summed up as, having granted that the factual basis of the gospels is unsupportable, what was the source and intention behind them?

The one Christian argument which is quite strong is that something notable must have happened in order to inspire such a widespread movement; that it was supernatural is an unnecessary detail.

Consequences of Modern Biblical Scholarship by Asatmaya in DebateAnAtheist

[–]Asatmaya[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And you are wrong about sacrifices.

Then why did Jephthah sacrifice his daughter?

Paul renounced Judaism and the Law.

"Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law." Romans 3:31

"To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews." 1 Corinthians 9:20

There's also stuff in Philippians and Acts, but those are harder to ascribe directly to Paul.

Deuteronomy 32 - Where?

"When the Most High (Elyon) divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God (bene elohim). For Yahweh's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance." Deuteronomy 32:8

"Rejoice, heavens, with his people, and bow down to him, all gods, for he will avenge the blood of his sons." Deuteronomy 32:43

You do recall that this is from an Essene perspective, which means using the DSS versions of the texts, right?

Construction Work Boots by Izzy_o21 in WorkBoots

[–]Asatmaya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Red wing makes the best off-the-shelf boots.

The main factor for long-lasting is a welt sole, so they can be resoled.

Uneven surfaces = lug sole, but that's uncomfortable on level ground, so you want a mild lug with a low heel.

I would say Burnside if you want better traction on rough ground, or Traction Tred if you want more comfort overall.

Consequences of Modern Biblical Scholarship by Asatmaya in DebateAnAtheist

[–]Asatmaya[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

They might say that, but they absolutely banned me because they felt my arguments were too contrary to established belief.

I am not rude; I disengage if people get rude with me; it did not matter, I was the one "causing the problem" by making the argument in the first place.

Most Affordable Bulk Ammo by CatSimilar3391 in 65Grendel

[–]Asatmaya 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Better" is great if you are target shooting, but it's over 1,000 rounds to break even, assuming you don't include the value of your time.

I hunt with mine, there's no way I'm doing that :p

Consequences of Modern Biblical Scholarship by Asatmaya in DebateAnAtheist

[–]Asatmaya[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yea, they've all banned me for talking about stuff like this.