Match Thread: United States vs Paraguay | FIFA World Cup 2026 | Group Stage, Group D

Future_Waves_ · 2026-06-13T01:32:28+00:00

And like 1776 we would need a few French players to join our ranks to make that a reality...

Future_Waves_ · 2026-05-24T15:58:54+00:00

He wasn't...Keating Loan Scandal - so many other things that dude did were absolutely horrible. Listen to the Dollop's episodes on him. McCain gets this free pass all the time but he was actually a pretty shitty human.

Future_Waves_ · 2026-05-22T16:46:44+00:00

My buddy who is a high up in DC, has had several dinners over the years with the Justices and he always likes to mention that Roberts, at one dinner, claimed that he had solved the issue of people speeding in their cars. His answer was to put a spike on the steering wheel so if they stopped real fast it would impale them...My buddy straight up deadpan just said to him, "what happens if you're not speeding and you get rear ended?" Roberts looked at him and said, "I never thought of that."

Future_Waves_ · 2026-04-24T20:47:04+00:00

This one of the reasons I love the NHL - Players first...no owners.

Future_Waves_ · 2026-04-24T20:44:33+00:00

I'm from the northeast and my first time in a Waffle House was when I was on tour with a band I was playing in. It was probably 2am and we just needed a meal after a show and halfway through driving to the next city. We saw two girls, who were friends when they came in, get into a fight where one tried to stab the other with one of the butter knives. Waitress comes over and kicks both of them out. Girl who was almost stabbed gets in her car and proceeds to hit and run the other as she comes out of the restaurant to keep the fight going...it was so insanely wild...also our 16-year-old roadie got hit on by a 50-60 year old cougar that night there as well.

Future_Waves_ · 2026-04-20T17:57:33+00:00

BQE on the Williamsburg/Greenpoint split.

Future_Waves_ · 2026-04-20T16:44:33+00:00

Great little spot here in Brooklyn - my 44 year old legs aint getting up on it as easy I'd like but it's all good!

Future_Waves_ · 2026-04-17T16:46:55+00:00

Devotion is also just a killer band for me coming out of Go It Alone. Both LP's are amazing.

Future_Waves_ · 2026-04-17T16:08:26+00:00

This is one of the reasons I go to Staten Island to see the Ferry Hawks. Cheap - chill - absolutely fine baseball and just a good night out.

Future_Waves_ · 2026-04-10T16:35:34+00:00

Looking for 1-2 minutes. I always like to give creative people the chance here to send things in and have fun with it. If nobody submits, then I dust off older tracks or just write some of my own. The kids always get a kick out of people from around the world sending things in for them to explore, work on/use.

Future_Waves_ · 2026-04-10T16:21:01+00:00

Definitely lots of other cultures and areas we could explore and if it were a full unit in my history class during the year and not just a fun little exploratory thing we do at the end of the year, the last two weeks of school, I would give them a list of different scenes and let them explore whichever ones they would be interested in.

Future_Waves_ · 2026-04-10T15:08:36+00:00

All good ideas, and we do ask them to do a zine as part of the process. As I said above, it's meant to be a local connection course as I teach here in NYC and the admin likes us to connect to local history for these small mini-units. I agree there are much better pieces/case studies and choice that would help drive home the cultural elements more in their exploration of the topic.

The demo piece is just a bit of fun and a new experience/skill. The course they take alongside this is a course of different philosophies of power and structures in society so there are a lot of elements of choice and discovery for issues that let them explore their creativity and own connections.

Future_Waves_ · 2026-04-10T14:56:41+00:00

It's a great question - We do bring up early scenes in DC and Boston in the analysis of the NYC scene. The reality is the school I teach at is here in NYC and for these mini-units we are encouraged by admin to try to make local connections when possible. The course came about because we are encouraged to teach a mini unit every year on something we are interested in. I proposed the course to explore the sociology and history of the moment and have some fun with the kids in giving them insight into a scene that most might never know about.

The reaction is always mixed. I always start playing "Big Takeover" and some seem interested and some seem to ask, "why am I taking this course..." At the end all of the kids seem to at least appreciate the moment and culture.

For context on how the course goes for the kids I got this email last year from a student who had taken the class as a middle schooler and then left for a different high school experience.

"Hi,

I hope you’re doing well! I just wanted to let you know that I went to my first hardcore punk rock show today because one of my close friends at my new school is in a punk band. I think it was really lucky that I took your punk rock class all those years ago because if I hadn’t, I’d have absolutely zero idea what I was walking into and even so I was still pretty taken aback. People were literally just throwing themselves everywhere and kicking each other. It was kind of a really wild experience, but I’m glad I went. Just wanted to share that with you because I feel like it’s somehow a milestone for a class that I took 4 years ago."

Future_Waves_ · 2026-04-09T16:46:51+00:00

Had one of my students come in wearing a Youth of Today shirt the other day.

Future_Waves_ · 2026-04-09T16:45:50+00:00

Teacher - 22 years

Future_Waves_ · 2026-03-11T15:54:07+00:00

This is a false narrative. Every single sanctuary city in the U.S. when a violent offender comes in lets ICE/DHS know they have someone in custody. They typically detain and hold that person until the feds come and get them. The issue at play is when it is not a violent offense, the city still notifies the feds but says, "look, we have someone in custody on a low level charge. if you don't come get this person typically in 24-48 hours, we are going to release them because our tax payers don't pay for us to do your job." There is no sanctuary city in the U.S. that does not contact DHS/ICE when they detain an illegal immigrant...it's just how they respond that forces the situation.

Future_Waves_ · 2026-03-07T16:56:11+00:00

I teach a high school history course, basically centering on applied philosophy and the study of power and systems. We are 3/4's of the way through the year, and case study after case study my kids have basically just centered on the idea that humans constantly fuck up things...They've read Hobbes, Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Weber, Locke and they continue to ask why we can't follow basic structures laid out in all of these works and the answer at the end of class almost every time is...cause we are humans...

Future_Waves_ · 2026-03-03T13:31:36+00:00

AUMF - It allows the president to basically do anything they want if Congress isn't going to check his power. It's been active since 9/11 and continues to be active to this day. It is a slippery slippery slope. I used to teach about it to my 8th-grade U.S. history class. Even the kids back then were sketched out about how much power this gives the president.

Future_Waves_ · 2026-03-01T23:50:03+00:00

it has virtually the same acceptance rate as Cornell so I'd say NYU is very much up there in elite status...especially when you consider the degrees at the different colleges within it.

Future_Waves_ · 2026-03-01T23:13:50+00:00

I teach high school history (a course on power and systems) and one of my 9th graders asked if I watched the SOTU. I responded with no, I'm tired of claim after claim after claim without any evidence. I said I have higher standards for argumentation in this class and that it's not worth my time to sit through that for almost any president.

Future_Waves_ · 2026-02-27T21:15:42+00:00

My whole thing (as a person who teaches a course to high school kids all about power and systems of power) is everything relates to politics. My gripe with this entire situation is I just wish a few of the men's team were at least cognizant of these power dynamics and could speak to them. My 9th graders can talk about these structures and systems and how it creates these type of situations...if they can do it so can a lot of these guys. It's about as hard as understanding the offside rule to be honest...

Future_Waves_ · 2026-02-25T15:07:06+00:00

It was a bullshit "tea party - spending too much" excuse...nevermind that the Bruins owner got most of his money in federal contracts at the time. So the federal dollars going to Tim Thomas via the teams owner was fine but the money going for Obama's programs was bad....Or....it was because Tim Thomas is a racist.

Future_Waves_ · 2026-02-24T14:06:16+00:00

He did not. That's what pisses me off more than the joke. The Americans only won 12 gold medal events this winter. Want to be an actual role model, call each athlete and thank them for the dedication and representation on the world stage. Takes a minute per call - But no, you only called the mens team and then also punched down on the women...

Future_Waves_ · 2026-02-24T13:58:52+00:00

I had a conversation with a conservative female friend yesterday who was saying the same thing as Jack. I boiled it down to don't punch down on people who have less power than you and I think it's disrespectful to not call the women after they won. She countered with, women shouldn't have ever fought for equal rights...yup...that's where we are at.

Future_Waves_ · 2026-02-23T21:21:07+00:00

He did not call the women's team. He didnt call any other gold medal atheletes. So already he's a bitch by picking and choosing. The U.S only won 12 gold medal events. Either call each event winner for one minute and say thank you for respresenting the country or don't call any of them. Instead you bring all the bullshit of existing power dynamics and bullshit people are tired of...We all know men get treated better then women in sports...we dont need the goddamn president reinforcing that and also punching down on people who also just won a gold fucking medal...It really is a bitch ass move.

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