@jasonc_nc@StevenEiselen@UrbanCourtyard I always thought shitlib was centrist but I guess it depends on which person is accusing you of being one? Am I wrong about what people mean by it?
To understand how painful that process would be:
Recall that the Florida House of Representatives last year proposed cutting the statewide sales tax from 6 percent to 5.25 percent.
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The US is the only country where people believe in property rights except when it comes to parking. Then it should be okay to park your private property in someone else’s for free.
@millydripdrop@jeff_gluck “Points racing has made teams way too comfortable just finishing race in the top10 rather than going for the win”
*points out a car went for the win*
“No not like that!”
What do you want them to do?
@millydripdrop@jeff_gluck The 20 car literally stayed out on a hopium strategy to try to win or at least improve their finish because they need more points than they’ve been getting…
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.