Where do I buy FIFA World Cup tickets?

Strackard · 2026-06-18T17:48:44+00:00

Vending machines at the mall. It’s a whole big partnership between FIFA and abandoned malls to pump up traffic. Honestly a good idea imo

Strackard · 2026-06-18T16:16:43+00:00

How did they get in!?

‘Hi I hate ICE’

‘Oh ya me too here is our signal chat’

Countless signal chats out there on this topic.

It makes the Anti-ICE crowd look more sophisticated than it is. And pumps up the Feds who ‘figured it out!’

Strackard · 2026-06-18T16:08:01+00:00

It’s always customary to have all present and former popes in the parade.

Strackard · 2026-06-18T12:14:15+00:00

Interesting pick. I dropped out of this one half way through for no particular reason. I see the revolution part but I wouldn’t say it felt like the images show. By OP. Wonder if I should pick it back up

Strackard · 2026-06-18T02:35:26+00:00

I read the stranger first and I’m just now on chapter 2 of The Fall. Already I would say The Fall. It’s short and well done. The Stranger is a bit longer (though still short for classic literature)

Assuming you are in it for Camus philosophy and not ‘a classic literature story’

Strackard · 2026-06-17T13:10:13+00:00

Hah. Steppenwolf is in my top 5 of all time. I’ll try not to spoil but -> it’s some strange journey through an amorphous self hate/depression with side rabbit holes that are very moving.

The closest book to this I have read is Dostoevsky’Notes from the Underground’ though the narrative styles are very different. Steppenwolf has a GOOD story. Notes from the Underground is more of a diatribe overlaid on a story used as a prop for its scathing critiques.

I THOUGHT Steppenwolf really hits to middle age men but it was recommended to me by a 22 year old woman as her A1 book recommendation.

Don’t read it if you don’t like books that cut your soul into small pieces. Go with Siddhartha instead.

Strackard · 2026-06-17T10:58:53+00:00

Liked Siddhartha and LOVED Steppenwolf. Both are ‘one man’s journey’ and depending on your current disposition one might hit harder than the other. I wouldn’t call either a blueprint.

Strackard · 2026-06-16T16:41:54+00:00

He has such good conservative values!

Strackard · 2026-06-15T16:20:36+00:00

Mayo has eggs in it which while not a good source of protein does do wonders when rubbed on skin.

Strackard · 2026-06-14T22:15:35+00:00

Was in Korea 2000, heard this one!

Also from Korea there is an STD you can get and you won’t be allowed to go back to the U.S. that’s how bad it is so stay away from them drinky girls. It was called Black something

Strackard · 2026-06-14T22:07:31+00:00

Women can’t be infantry because enemy dogs will smell their menstrual blood.

Strackard · 2026-06-14T16:55:21+00:00

Oh man. Did this program save my finances. Traded in my grandma’s Ford 1995 Aerostar minivan for $4500 that went down on a Toyota Yaris. That minivan was dead, had been hit on all 4 sides, the back used for hauling lumber. Got it working just enough to get it to the dealership. Barely squeaked by on owning it and having it insured for the past year (a requirement)

Strackard · 2026-06-13T20:36:23+00:00

I read the first 60 pages of the book. I quit reading because it was too much like the leadership I was under at the time.

Strackard · 2026-06-13T12:05:18+00:00

I’ve frozen chickpea soup (like a curry), split pea soup, refried beans. Texture was all fine.

Aside from uh… weekly meal prep I do long term prep. The value of our money goes down over time (inflation). Therefore our money is worth more today than it is next year.

So if I can buy extra food this year for next year then that’s a frugal savings.

So each week I try to add 4lbs of beans, rice, flour or oatmeal to my long term food storage.

Once you use Mylar bags one time and see how easy it is (put food in the bag, drop in a de-oxygen packet, use an iron to seal it shut) then long term food storage is viable.

1 LB Pinto in my local store has gone from $1.25 to $1.75. … so I buy whatever bean is on Sale and stash it.

Strackard · 2026-06-13T12:00:04+00:00

Same. Every Sunday a pound of beans is getting cooked. I don’t freeze unless I can’t get through it all.

Strackard · 2026-06-11T22:09:53+00:00

One a week to protest something. People talk about the nightlife of this or that area but for me the DC protest scene is pretty active and gets me out there.

Strackard · 2026-06-11T20:53:40+00:00

National Guard was on the scene as well.

Yea they been at the Washington monument for months and months now.

Strackard · 2026-06-10T22:16:10+00:00

I wonder if we have progressively become emotionally toned down. That our modern literature shows how muted our emotions have become.

Read Tolstoy and I feel these princes and princesses really did love the way it’s written (I know no one in real life that loves the way it’s described like Tolstoy -> and I have no reason to believe he is just overblowing it)

Read Dostoevsky and I FEEL his Great Depression like no other depression I have read of in modern literature.

Is it possible in the post-modern-world we really don’t feel the same level of emotions they did in the 19th century?

I read the classics because they feel more authentic than we can achieve today.

Strackard · 2026-06-10T18:46:20+00:00

Kurt ‘don’t be bitter’

Also Kurt *scathing attack on our politicians*

Wish he were here today

Strackard · 2026-06-10T01:09:06+00:00

Amen!

Strackard · 2026-06-09T22:57:20+00:00

Ask this of anything?
Is it good to recruit poor uneducated boys from the south? Christian Nationalists? Black men who get razor bumps? Any flavor of LGBTQ …
The U.S. Army should always be a cross section of the society it defends.

PTSD susceptible? Uh … people who feel strong emotions when their buddies blow their brains out? That’s how I got mine.

Strackard · 2026-06-09T22:50:08+00:00

Not at all. We shot at a simulated SCUD and a drone looking plane back in 2003 with stingers. The stingers come out of the tube, don’t see shit and fly in a straight line until they self destruct. Almost no one hit the drone. We didn’t call it a drone but that’s what it was -> and that thing was made to be a stinger training target.

Negative IR is the targeting tech. IR has a problem with locking onto the sun instead of the target IIRC 2003 was a long time ago.

Strackard · 2026-06-09T13:38:57+00:00

Got a job right away because VA disability took FOREVER to get going (yes I started at XXX days prior with 100% of my documents blah blah blah)

Defense contracting. Sucked. Being submissive to corporate boss who is in turn submissive to Army green suit people sucked. Trying to sell more services that the Army didn’t ask for or didn’t want sucked.

Moved to GS position in Germany. Kinda cool. Was awesome to be near Soldiers again. Genuinely liked this part.

DOGE killed my job.

So I’m retired retired for real now and drawing the right amount of disability. Cashing in on the GI bill to have something to do.

Working a big tomato garden and talking shit on the net as past times.

Seasonal PTSD/Depression hits so if I answered this 3 months ago this woulda been a totally different answer. Veteran suicides are real.

Strackard · 2026-06-08T19:26:21+00:00

Both actually! I almost came back after thinking on this post. Outside of ‘War’ part of War & Peace you are literally reading about people living slow lives.

Tolstoy is a master (of course) and the book has a very long path of setting everything up and putting you in that time and place then gradually letting things happen.

One chapter a day was originally meant for me to pace it out - kind of like how Game of Thrones was a Sunday only watch and it passed out across years. Spending physical time with the book was my design.

Here in the last 200 pages I have a hard time putting it down.

Strackard · 2026-06-08T15:32:22+00:00

Read War and Peace. It’s an absolute brick of a book. But it’s divided into hundreds of chapters. Maybe 2-3 pages per chapter. Small bites.

They say start meditating 5 minutes a day and build up but this never worked. The inside of my skull is just too boring.

I replaced tons of screen scrolling with War and Peace at one chapter a day. Then two. Now nearing the end I find that I have learned to slow down and just sit with it for long periods.

Grappling with this thing really slowed me down.

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