USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
You are smarter than this Ro. Imagine if Bernie had taxed @elonmusk 100% on his PayPal capital gains. We would have no @Tesla or @SpaceX - none of those jobs or GDP. Who do you think allocated the capital better for society? He will already pay $100 B + in taxes - more than any human ever. I hope he donates some to kids via @TrumpAccounts to make every kid a shareholder in 🇺🇸 & continues investing all his heart, soul & money for the benefit of America & all humanity! 🇺🇸🚀🤍
@XBOX, @PlayStation you both should be ashamed of yourselves. Both “next-gen consoles” are trash, no more powerful than my iPhone. The lag on your servers is unplayable. It’s 2026 - you blew it. I’ve had both consoles for a long time, but I’ll never buy another one, in favor of PC gaming.
most ppl’s refusal to risk humiliation is their original downfall.
genius is indistinguishable from delusion / being a moron until the outcome arrives.
the funniest part is that when it all works, everyone retrofits the narrative to make it look inevitable.
& when it fails, they call it what they were always going to call it. stupid.
the line between idiocy & insight is fine as hell.
@FitWealthyU Right on brother. Where the body goes the mind will follow. Reminds me of the @danawhite clip, you just gotta be a savage, and you’ll beat 99% of people
@alexabelonix@FedEx Wanna connect and talk about how we can go to market and solve this problem for FedEx? This is a solvable problem with Agentic AI and modern tech systems
Your app and delivery notification system is unusable @FedEx ~ moreover, I have zero way to get in communication with my driver. Finally, the virtual assistant was actually useless, y’all need to power this with an LLM and provide backend agentic orchestration to provide a more dynamic & robust conversational agent experience