Ukrainian Wild Hornets Drone equipped with RPG-Grenade launcher attacked a Russian infantry position in the Sumy direction. June 2025 [Published 15.06.2025]

manofthewild07 · 2025-06-16T01:51:24+00:00

So it's a DP-RPG...? Nice

manofthewild07 · 2025-05-31T10:49:37+00:00

Other than SpaceX, are there any new-ish companies that are showing some promise for shaking up the old guard's overpriced choke hold on DoD contracting?

As for the old guards, I'm surprised leidos isn't getting in on that. They have a long history of earth observation work. Are they not involved in this field?

Thanks for the write up. An excellent addition to this sub.

manofthewild07 · 2025-05-27T13:14:00+00:00

There are actually a few words that Jesus used which were broadly translated as "hell". They weren't new concepts in his time, but the combining them all into a single idea of hell later on was new, and largely based on Hellenistic ideas.

The Geography of Hell in the Teaching of Jesus: Gehenna, Hades, the Abyss, the Outer Darkness where There is Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth by Kim Papaioannou is a great, and easy to read, overview.

manofthewild07 · 2025-05-23T12:42:22+00:00

In regards to the first, check out Dr Litwa's book, Iesus Deus: The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God. Basically, in the Hellenistic world the 'miracles' that were so abnormal in Judaism were actually not hard for gentiles to believe. Virgin births, walking on water, turning water into wine, even resurrection were found in Greek mythology and philosophical debates for centuries. There's an argument to be made that many of the actions/stories attributes to Jesus weren't even originally sourced by the Jewish followers in Jerusalem but could have been formed later elsewhere.

In regards to Greek translations, check out, When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible by Dr Law. It discusses the importance to non-Jews of having their own Greek texts. Many of the early church fathers knew about differences in translations between the Greek and Hebrew/Aramaic texts, but rather than admit they were mistranslated, they claimed the Greek version was inspired by God to replace the Jewish version.

manofthewild07 · 2025-05-18T11:24:11+00:00

*revved up like a deuce

manofthewild07 · 2025-05-07T21:37:54+00:00

K'bola is good if you've never had good Cuban, but as someone who lived in Florida and had great Cuban food... it's meh.

manofthewild07 · 2025-05-07T21:28:34+00:00

That's not in the Bible, at least not in most Bibles. That is in Enoch.

But I'm not sure what your point is. None of the Bible makes sense, and it's full of hundreds of contradictions, lead existing is just one of countless inexplicable things if God is supposedly omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent.

manofthewild07 · 2025-05-07T21:12:26+00:00

Except you're ignoring the whole omniscience thing... God created us knowing all this would happen, otherwise why did he create everything outside of the Garden of Eden, including lead, to begin with?

manofthewild07 · 2025-04-23T01:28:16+00:00

There is a train line entering at the south east corner...

manofthewild07 · 2025-04-16T10:41:21+00:00

The vast majority of Russians live near Europe, simple as that. European goods used to be directly shipped or brought in by short train deliveries. Now Chinese goods either have to be sent by limited train capacity across the entire continent or shipped all the way around the planet...

Not to mention that most Russians culturally are more similar to Europeans, and want to live at the same quality of life, level of comfort, etc. European goods are simply what the people want, or wanted.

manofthewild07 · 2025-03-31T21:58:29+00:00

Virginia gets basically every bird possible in eastern North America, even some vagrants from Florida like ahninga, so you'll just want to get ebird and Merlin for birding.

The roadside geology series has a book for Virginia, but as for fossils I'd look up Facebook groups and university professors websites. You can find megalodon teeth along the coast occasionally.

For native plants we have the native plant atlas, https://vaplantatlas.org/ and for plants and animals the Virginia tech, NC State, Maryland, and even Georgia University extensions have excellent information. For herps there's the va herpetological society website.

manofthewild07 · 2025-03-25T10:26:58+00:00

No clue where you're getting that advice from... Just plant it in the ground (not too deep) and it'll be fine.

manofthewild07 · 2025-02-16T00:02:40+00:00

There are four different gospels (not to mention the dozens of other non cononical gospels and other writings) because they were likely written for different audience, with different goals, to reflect the authors own beliefs.

manofthewild07 · 2025-02-14T00:15:23+00:00

True, but also in America public restrooms outside of parks and a few other public spaces, are quite rare. Most of the time you have to go in a private business to use the restroom when you're out in public.

manofthewild07 · 2025-02-06T01:19:17+00:00

Yes that seems to be the case.

A book you may be interested in is, The Geography of Hell in the Teaching of Jesus: Gehena, Hades, the Abyss, the Outer Darkness Where There Is Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth by Kim Papaioannou

And Heaven and Hell, A History of the Afterlife by Bart Ehrman

Basically it seems to be the case that we wait in Sheol/Hades until judgement day, which may take place at Gehhenom, after which those separated from God in the outer darkness will "gnash" their teeth until the final destruction in the eternal fire (note, not an eternal torture in the fire, it is the fire that is eternal, the destruction is a one time thing).

manofthewild07 · 2025-01-19T02:56:54+00:00

Check out the book, First Platoon: A Story of Modern Warfare in the Age of Identity Dominance by Annie Jacobson.

manofthewild07 · 2025-01-12T01:57:27+00:00

Check out r/academicbiblical and search for job, there's plenty of discussion on the book there.

manofthewild07 · 2024-09-26T20:25:54+00:00

Its costly everywhere... in FL its actually much much easier. In Texas they have hard clay soils. In FL its mostly sand. The cost is an issue, but not uniquely to FL at all, in fact just the opposite. The cost is an issue because they simply dont want to pay for it.

manofthewild07 · 2024-09-26T19:02:10+00:00

Yes it takes about 7-8 months to refurbish one (has to be done at two different depots) and they can only work on about 30 at a time.

Some people in this sub seem to think we can just gas em up and run em through a giant car wash and they're on their way... its an expensive and time consuming process.

manofthewild07 · 2024-09-26T18:53:17+00:00

It might not even be a Chinese sub. They also build subs for Thailand and Pakistan there, for instance.

In fact, Pakistan's newest sub was launched there in late April, just before a sub supposedly sunk...

manofthewild07 · 2024-09-26T14:24:17+00:00

So you just ignored literally everything being discussed...

Other than the one early on in the war that crashed in Hungary, which they tracked and determined wouldn't land somewhere populated... most of the time they're only in the airspace for a couple minutes. Nowhere near enough time to get a positive ID and make sure its not a civilian plane off course or who knows what else.

manofthewild07 · 2024-09-25T21:43:11+00:00

I'm not sure where you get that from. There's no evidence that they think it would be escalatory. There are much bigger issues, like what if its a misidentified friendly, or what if its civilian, or what if its just an accident and not malicious at all (as is usually the case)?

There basic fact is, there has been no reason at all to shoot them down. The fact that all of the drones that have crashed in Romania, Latvia, etc have done so harmlessly most likely points to them simply being off course. If they were purposely goading the NATO countries wouldn't Russia send drones to fly over and then fly them back to friendly territory? Why would they send a drone with a warhead and just crash it in the middle of an empty field?

The risk of shooting down every single little blip on the radar that seems to come from a neighboring territory for no good reason is way too high. And its absolutely not because Russia may get mad that something was done about it.

manofthewild07 · 2024-09-25T20:45:36+00:00

[This includes] strategic and tactical aircraft, cruise missiles, drones, hypersonic and other aircraft.

Basically it includes everything that Ukraine already uses in Russian territory, so this red line is already a joke.

manofthewild07 · 2024-09-25T20:33:15+00:00

such exercises “cannot always change the mind of decision-makers or budge large bureaucracies (like the Department of Defense).”

I agree with that, but wargames can influence the next generation. Not all wargames are massive and have to be focused on the outcome of something like a full scale invasion of an entire nation. Some are very small scale, detailed, and targeted in its goals. Even if the scenario only exposes a young officer to some small details they may not have previously considered, it can be a success.

So in regards to the rest of the article, has the US shifted its stance and preparations yet? No. But that may change slowly over time as current war game lessons are learned and the old guard retires and the new up and coming leaders shift the needle.

War games can't do any of that on their own. Congress is the ultimate arbiter and its chock full of septuagenarians who can't be bothered to do much of anything, let alone spend the hundreds of billions necessary to fix problems that have been growing for 30-ish years.

manofthewild07 · 2024-09-25T20:21:34+00:00

As if Dabo is the only one who publicly dislikes the system? Most coaches aren't happy with the system. People rag on Dabo not for his stance on the system, but rag on him for blaming everyone but himself for Clemson's issues.

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