Harrison Chona

Technology Risk Consultant

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

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.

[NASA's Kennedy Space Center @NASAKennedy]

The planet can spell your name – literally. 🔤🌍

This Earth Day, see your name written in landscapes captured by Landsat: https://t.co/kcP12dhsI2

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

The Strokes used their Coachella set to show CIA coups and Gaza footage. They’ll probably never be invited back, and they knew it.

[Containeristan @guldaar]

Here is what The Strokes did and how it should go down in history as one of the most important protests by a musical band of our times:

[Harrison Chona @Harrison_Chona]

@vivianscomet The fan is heckling. People paying to see Sabrina and they’re screeching/yellling at the performer?

[Harrison Chona @Harrison_Chona]

@frankyretardo1 I’ve been saying this for years. All the hate comes from people who have never been or old heads who don’t have a diverse music taste.

[grizzy @Furbeti]

This administration is so openly corrupt and fraudulent it isn't even funny anymore.

[GFed🇺🇸 @GfedGoCrazy]

April fools doesn’t hit the same living in a misinformation epidemic

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

The Trump admin is asking for $200B more to fund the war in Iran. Here's what we could do with that money for Americans struggling in this economy instead.

[Warren @swd2]

You'll never believe what we did in Minnesota

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

stop spending money on Claude Code.

Chipotle's support bot is free:

[Harrison Chona @Harrison_Chona]

@Callystarr @Johnny676767dd @KonartistNupe And the Mavericks made the worst trade in NBA history and still got the 1st pick…

[Harrison Chona @Harrison_Chona]

@geekjunt @ScrantonCapitol @stoolpresidente Patriots lost to the Raiders…

[The Middle-earth Mixer @MiddleearthMixr]

Trees in Minnesota rn

[Harrison Chona @Harrison_Chona]

@LogicalBears Best part his him chipping on the DE even though he coulda gone inside

[Harrison Chona @Harrison_Chona]

@GadSaad One was killed by a police officer. One was killed by a crazy homeless guy… You don’t see the difference? Any maybe why one is more important than the other?

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

Number of 95 degree days in 4 of Florida’s largest cities. You guessed it. All going up. Is it urbanization? Or is it greenhouse heating?
You betcha!
It’s both. And both are “human-caused”.
Most other FL sites, rural & urban, show same trend. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk!

[Harrison Chona @Harrison_Chona]

@discolines Please play your Baby Girl/Collapse edit today!

[Harrison Chona @Harrison_Chona]

Beyonce = LeBron
Lady Gaga = Jordan