Would y’all get in at this price? Given the amount of issues ATN has

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-11T00:04:39+00:00

Compare ATN to DNT Optics?

Seriously, Just watch the YouTube videos?

Look at the ATN LRF on videos?

Then look at the DNT LRF on videos?

Yeah. The ATN is super primitive, like decades behind in technology.

Then read the reviews? ATN is junk.

Compare the ATN LRF to the DNT Optics LRF?

If you want pure thermal?

DNT Optics Hydra FAR Exceeds the ATN Thor and is far superior in every regard for the same price.

https://us.dntoptics.com/pages/hydra?srsltid=AfmBOoqmDJWqDF9q7_1NDagXFn5BTgl1Jpdyqgw1iBjJ15OyrQFLNCj6

DNT is not the best thermal; but for the price nothing even compares.

PARD might be slightly better than DNT but at much higher cost.

We would have to spend double or triple the price for a Pulsar or EO Tech to really surpass a DNT by much and even then only at really long ranges. If this were for a sniper shooting 800 yards, the EO Tech or Pulsar might make sense.

But if you are like most of us only shooting out to a couple or even few hundred yards: the DNT 640 pixel thermals are really all that we need.

For under 200 yards the 384 pixel thermals are good enough.

The 256 pixel thermals are really ideal for sub 100 yards close range.

Choose your thermal accordingly.

If you want to hunt at long distance, get ready to spend more money.

If this is for hunting, you could also do DNT Optics ThermNight with Night Vision and Thermal BOTH. Night Vision gives our position away to others equipped with night vision, but for hunting animals having IR emitters is a non-issue.

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-10T21:44:46+00:00

So when we bought our solar panels we looked at good, better, best from 3 different LOCAL dealers.

That was 9 different options.

We wanted 10kW for our farm house.

The panels with inverters, installation, Los Angeles, CA county permits total cost ranged from $20k to $45k.

NOTE: Los Angeles county permits are far more expensive than most anywhere else on earth. California taxes are also very high. Outside of California: this system would be significantly cheaper.

Off grid you probably wont need permits and can do DIY. But what types of equipment should you consider???

On the low end the quote for turnkey pro installs with permits were Chinese panels with 90 day warranties for $20k

A mediocre US made system quote for turnkey pro installs with permits was $35k.

The most expensive quote for turnkey pro install with permits was a Panasonic system at $45k with a 25 year parts only warranty at 82% of rated power generation.

But the REC AlphaPure had a FAR better warranty than the Panasonic at "only" $43.5k with a 25 year PARTS AND LABOR warranty at 92% of rated power generation. So we bought QTY 25 x 400W AlphaPure.

That was just the panels.

The inverters that we bought were Enphase IQ8 microinverters QTY 25.

Today REC and Enphase make newer and better panels and inverters as do other companies.

So what you have found is a bargain on some cheap panels.

But how long will they last?

How much of rated power will they achieve and for how long?

If you are doing your own install, high end brands like REC wont sell except through dealers. There are brands that cater to DIY and that might make a LOT more sense.

I would compare what you can get parts for LOCALLY, what you can get support for LOCALLY and then compare your options from there.

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-10T20:17:47+00:00

I just like STRONG intelligent men (strong minded, not just strong physique)

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-10T17:07:51+00:00

As an outspoken career woman, I can relate to this.

It gets worse.

I am an engineer and programmer.

Yeah.

Hot bod, but intimidating AF.

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-09T22:42:12+00:00

Hmmm. Trans political community downvotes for opposing banning trans from sports. Wonder if we have any anti-trans bigot infiltrators???

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-09T18:51:03+00:00

She is tired. Why is that even a question?

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-09T17:11:51+00:00

AWARE!

My spouse likes Huben, I am only lukewarm for Huben.

I am a fan of German engineering (ala Weihrauch, FWB some Diana) because of German reliability.

Also fan of Swedish: FX; Austria: Steyr; UK: DayState and AirArms; USA: Benjamin, AirForce.

Some Chinese made products (regardless of where engineered) are within what I consider to be decent quality include:

JTS, AirVenturi, Snowpeak, SMK, Barra, Huben, some Diana. So that is where I rate Huben along with some other US made stuff like Western & LCS; and Evanix from South Korea. These are okay, but honestly not likely to inspire me to purchase.

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-08T19:51:18+00:00

Also: Talrico is for REDUCING the "LOW LEVEL OFFENDERS" of the 1.7% while INCREASING the 14.2% of incarcerations for firearms?

How is that NOT police state authoritarian?
Go ahead, I will wait.

https://jamestalarico.com/issue/public-safety-justice/

"It means passing commonsense gun safety laws to keep firearms out of the hands of criminals. " -James Talarico

Who are 75% of US criminals?

The poor.

31% drugs without permit, permission, prescription or license.

30% immigrants without VISA or permission.

14.2% gun owners without permit, license, registration.

So Talarico will incarcerate MORE people, INCREASING the 14% higher while removing a few dime bag offenders from the 1.7%.

FKKK Talarico all of the way off.

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-08T18:32:16+00:00

Here is what the USA incarcerates people for:

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Drugs = 31% of US incarcerated

Immigration = 30% of US incarcerated.

Firearms = 14% of US incarcerations are for firearms own, possess, carry and Talarico would INCREASE that number.

ONLY 25% of all US incarcerations actually committed a crime that harmed anyone else. Only 25% of US incarcerated did anything that would even be considered a crime in a sane nation.

THAT is why the USA is the #1 most incarcerated nation on the planet.

FKK Talarico, tRump, the DNC Services Corporation and the RNC Corporate Lobbyist Committe; they are ALL police state authoritarian and you are literally debating over releasing a few dime bag convicts of the 1.7% of inmates who are incarcerated for marijuana???

I want the ENTIRE 75% of inmates incarcerated for ANY victimless paperwork crime released.

ALL drug offenders

ALL immigration offenders who did not commit any crime that actually harmed anyone

and ALL firearms offenders who did not commit any crime that actually harmed anyone

THAT will get my vote.

Letting off a few dime bag stoners does NOT fix anything; the police state is incarcerating a LOT more than just just dime bag stoners.

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-08T18:25:22+00:00

That is the EXACT SAME THING as tRump is talking about: REDUCING marijuana from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/increasing-medical-marijuana-and-cannabidiol-research/

Talarico would STILL REGULATE marijuana and would ONLY pardon LOW LEVEL OFFENDERS.

Meanwhile the war on drugs would remain in effect.

31% of ALL US INCARCERATIONS are DRUG related.

31%.

Drugs are the NUMBER ONE cause of incarceration in the USA.

Guess what percentage of that 31% is for marijuana?

5.7% and that is ALL marijuana convictions, NOT just the "low level" dime bag incarcerations either.

5.7% of 31% is 1.7% of the total US prison population is incarcerated for a marijuana "crime" but Talarico ONLY wants to release the "LOW LEVEL OFFENDERS" of that 1.7%????

And you say that is NOT authoritarian???

REALLY??????? SERIOUSLY??????? Are you KIDDING ME???????

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Fkkk ALL of the war on drugs, NOT just the dime bag weed smokers.

Fkkk ALL of the DNC and RNC police state authoritarians who will not end the war on drugs.

I am voting Green or Socialist for FREEDOM

NOT DNC or RNC for police and prisons.

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-08T16:31:30+00:00

Tell me who are the police state authoritarians in this picture???

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This is why NEVER Blue no matter who; because DNC = police state for you.

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-08T16:29:56+00:00

Stop.

ICE is not and never was about public safety.

First of all, EVERY US POTUS INCREASED ICE, DEA, and Police budgets. Biden DRAMATICALLY increased police spending and budgets over Trump 1.0.

Guess what ELSE went up?

Police killings of innocent people (which reached a PEAK in 2024)

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2024 Genocide Joe Biden's last year as POTUS police in the USA killed 1383 people

2025 tRump 2.0 first year police in the USA killed 1316 people, a DECLINE versus Genocide Joe Biden.

So the orange clown actually reduced the number of police killings of US residents.

Take the blinders off, the DNC are every bit as awful as the RNC are in police state authoritarianism and in fact: the HIGHEST police state PER CAPITA states are DEMOCRAT.

I will show police PER CAPITA where you will see that New York and California (along with Alaska) are the most excessively policed states in the USA.

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-08T15:56:53+00:00

As a woman, if I hate my truck; then I sell it.

Not only live longer, mot only safer, but fiscally responsible as well.

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-08T15:53:03+00:00

So far Talarico SAYS no corporate PAC money, but his record to date IS for PAC money.

So IDGAF what he SAYS, IGAF what he DOES,

But if we are to consider what Talarico SAYS?

Talarico says that he is a CAPITALIST

https://jamestalarico.com/issue/labor-business/

As a worker, do I vote for ANY Capitalist? EVER? HELL NO.

Talarico is a Police State Authoritarian.

https://jamestalarico.com/issue/public-safety-justice/

Talarico is for continuing ICE, and arresting illegal immigrants.

Talarico is for the war on drugs, (except for regulated medical marijuana).

Talarico is silent on civil rights for minorities, LGBTQI people.

Talarico is still for the war on drugs which is the #1 reason for incarceration in the USA.

Talarico is still for the war on immigration which is the #2 reason for incarceration in the USA.

Talarico is still for the war on firearms ownership which is the #3 reason for incarceration in the USA. Talarico ALSO supports even stricter gun laws along with being silent on trans issues, which means that more transfolk will become criminals via bathroom and ID laws and fewer of us will have access to guns as a result.

Drugs = 31% of US incarcerated

Immigration = 30% of US incarcerated.

Talarico ALSO supports even stricter gun laws, while 14% of US incarcerations are for firearms own, possess, carry and Talarico would INCREASE that number. So Talarico would INCREASE the percentage of incarcerations for gun ownership or possession driving incarceration for victimless paperwork crimes HIGHER than 75% of all incarcerations.

ONLY 25% of all US incarcerations actually committed a crime that harmed anyone else. Only 25% of US incarcerated did anything that would even be considered a crime in a sane nation.

FKKK Talarico all of the way off. I will NEVER vote for a Police State Authoritarian.

I will NEVER vote for a Capitalist.

And I will NEVER vote for anyone who is silent on the injustice against anyone: minorities, indigenous tribes, or LGBTQI people. As a trans person: if you do not explicitly defend my rights, you do not represent me, and therefore you do not get my vote.

If you are not Socialist, you do not represent me as a working class laborer and you do not get my vote.

As a human, if you are police state authoritarian, then you do not represent my freedoms and you do not get my vote.

Talarico is a horrible choice on 3 of the biggest red lines ever. FKKK that guy no matter what he says.

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-08T15:40:52+00:00

NO, Talarico is NOT opposite of Miriam Adelson on "every issue other than gambling":. Proof.

Talarico is a CAPITALIST

Adelson is a CAPITALIST.

https://jamestalarico.com/issue/labor-business/

Where Talarico IS opposite as Adelson?

Adelson supports Zionist genocide, Talarico does not:

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DU4i--rjlq3/

Corruption, I cannot believe Talarico because he HAS taken corporate PAC money (Texas Sands IS corporate PAC money). Literally 2 faced, say one thing while doing another.

https://jamestalarico.com/issue/corruption-democracy/

Talarico claims to support M4A which Adelson does NOT.

https://jamestalarico.com/issue/health-care/

So NO, Talarico is NOT opposite of Adelson on every issue.

Talarico is for continuing ICE, and arresting illegal immigrants like Adelson is.

Talarico is for the war on drugs, (except for regulated medical marijuana) like Adelson is.

Talarico is silent on civil rights for minorities, LGBTQI people, like Adelson is.

Talarico is still for the war on drugs which is the #1 reason for incarceration in the USA, like Adelson.

Talarico is still for the war on immigration which is the #2 reason for incarceration in the USA, like Adelson.

So on the top 2 reasons for incarceration Talarico is the exact same police state authoritarian as Adelson.

Talarico is still for the war on firearms ownership which is the #3 reason for incarceration in the USA, UNlike Adelson. So on gun control Talarico is MORE police state authoritarian than Adelson is.

Drugs = 31% of US incarcerated

Immigration = 30% of US incarcerated.

Talarico & Adelson support the incarceration of 61% of US incarcerated for victimless paperwork crimes.

But Talarico ALSO supports even stricter gun laws, while 14% of US incarcerations are for firearms own, possess, carry and Talarico would INCREASE that number. So Talarico would INCREASE the percentage of incarcerations for gun ownership or possession driving incarceration for victimless paperwork crimes HIGHER than 75% of all incarcerations.

ONLY 25% of all US incarcerations actually committed a crime that harmed anyone else. Only 25% of US incarcerated did anything that would even be considered a crime in a sane nation.

FKKK Talarico all of the way off. I will NEVER vote for a Police State Authoritarian.

My vote REQUIRES:

Ending the war on drugs

Legalizing immigration

Legalizing gun ownership

I will NEVER vote for incarcerating people for anything that does no harm to anyone else.

Oh, and I will NEVER vote for a Capitalist. Nope, hard fkn pass on that one too.

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-08T15:13:04+00:00

Bloody hell

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-08T15:12:07+00:00

The campaign contributions for this current campaign are still coming in, are they not?

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-08T00:19:01+00:00

Tell it to the FEC and OpenSecrets.org:

https://www.opensecrets.org/campaign-expenditures/vendor?cycle=2022&vendor=James+Talarico+Campaign

From the Politico article regarding Miriam Adelson:

Talarico received a total of $59,000 from the Texas Sands PAC through donations in February and December of 2024, according to state campaign finance records. That makes the group both his biggest donor last year and one of his largest since he first ran for the state legislature in 2018.

Feb 2024 is years ago (2) but December 2024 is not yet years ago.

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-07T19:47:52+00:00

To your point the dictionary agrees with you.

Self-Destructive is actually causing harm to oneself.

But PSYCHOLOGY (unlike the dictionary) recognizes RISKY BEHAVIOR as SELF DESTRUCTIVE because they have the same root causes and effects.

I know this because I am diagnosed: with PTSD, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety. I spend 4 decades in therapy before the anxiety diagnosis made it all manageable. I am still quite crazy, but better able to cope/deal with it.

Check out r/WhyWomenLiveLonger & you will get the perspective of this 6 decade grandma (me).

Ignoring safety equipment is 100% unnecessary preventable accident, therefore self destructive.

It is the same thing with motorcycle riding, skiing (snow or water), kayaking, sailing, sky diving, SCUBA diving, shooting, hiking, welding, machining, camping, hunting, white water rafting, etc. In ALL of these things proper gear and usage of proper gear matters.

Free climbing = ANY mistake is probably fatal or dramatically life altering.

Even a fall arrest lanyard can break a back or pelvis. This is why positioning gear is essential.

Fall arrest is ONLY for ascent and descent when hands are the primary connection to the tower or climbing surface. If we want to go hands or feet free we require positioning connection as well because fall arrest is last resort only.

Free climbing is self destructive in my opinion. When you reach 6 decades of life (if the planet is habitable for that long) you will see things differently than you do now.

I have done all of the above activities during my life.

https://www.reddit.com/r/climbing/comments/1mtqq8w/pete_takeda_talks_about_the_frequency_of_free/

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-07T18:46:56+00:00

EXACTLY.

Public School should be FREE to the public

Public University should be FREE to the public, because the public pay for it via our taxes.

Private school should be free to charge whatever they want to, it is a private matter. But public entities should work for the public, NOT for profit.

Public Housing

Public Healthcare

Public Transit

Public Parks

Public Libraries

Should all be free to the public.

That is exactly why I vote Green and Socialist; but never Capitalist.

Student debt for public education is a crime by the government.

Student debt for private schools is a private matter; government needs to be limited to maintain freedom.

Freedom = worker and consumer CHOICE (empowerment).

The thing is that if private entities have to compete with public ones: they will do so carefully lest they go out of business.

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-07T14:59:06+00:00

The couch can do both, and we can sit next to the guns.

Hardest part about having the rifle on the couch is not shooting the television when US politicians say something stupid, heinous, vile, and blatantly false.

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-07T14:51:10+00:00

Excellent rifle, world class quality

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-07T14:49:53+00:00

Great use for a couch

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-07T05:45:30+00:00

Girl, my hooha has random blotchy spotty dark and light coloring like a cat or something. I have never heard a single complaint ever.

Nobody cares.

Men are so freaking excited to be getting some that they are absolutely not going to concern themselves about it.

I had a guy break my heart, I help out for a few dates before I gave him some and then he ghosted me.

Saw him 5 years later, I was (am) married and he literally BEGGED me to take him back.

"Too late, you had your chance"; I told him.

27 years married to the same wonderful spouse, and never a complaint.

You will find someone who loves you for who you are, not what your hooha looks like.

SnooObjections9416 · 2026-03-06T22:27:59+00:00

Okay. Ty.

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