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The Knicks winning a championship while the World Cup cultural exchange is happening might be the legitimate antidote to the individualistic nihilism that’s poisoned so much of our country for the last decade or so
People want community. They want whimsy. It’s fun to have fun
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.
Your calendar was full at 21 and empty at 26 for a reason MIT discovered in 1950.
Researchers studied a housing complex called Westgate and found friendship was predicted by one variable above everything else: physical distance between front doors. Students living near stairwells and mailboxes made the most friends. Shared interests, values, personality? All downstream of foot traffic. They named it the propinquity effect.
Researcher Rebecca Adams later distilled friendship formation into three conditions: proximity, repeated unplanned interactions, and settings where people let their guard down. A college campus delivers all three automatically, dozens of hours a week of engineered collisions. Adult life delivers zero by default.
That's the entire mechanism behind days blending together. Your brain registers novelty from unplanned human contact. Remove the collisions and time loses its texture.
The fix is repetition. One dinner party changes nothing. The same gym class, same coffee shop, same pickup game at the same time every week rebuilds the structure school gave you for free. Friendship grows from accumulated accidental contact, so frequency wins.
College handed you a collision machine. Adults who stay social just rebuilt one.
There were multiple times where my son said to me throughout the game “dad, get up, the game is not over.”
He saw me dejected and in shock. Knicks fans were facing the thought of dropping 2 at home and our Championship dreams thrown out the window.
These Knicks are teaching young kids what it means to fight. Older Knicks fans have memories of disappointment, the younger Knicks fans have seen no lead too big to comeback from.
Jalen Brunson, I have never seen anything like it in my life. The ultimate role model. A humble fighter, with no fear of the moment.
He is teaching millions of kids the way. Never stop fighting. Constant reminders throughout this Playoffs.
Just incredible what Sports can teach you.
It’s 2026
This year, a massive number of rap and R&B records become eligible for termination.
That means songwriters and artists finally have the legal right to reclaim their publishing and their masters.
If you know any of these songwriters or artists, tag them in this post.
This represents what could be the largest transfer of wealth to Black people in the history of the music industry.
But…
If you do not terminate your publishing and your masters within the legal window, you lose that right forever.
These labels and publishers will NOT tell you this but I will.
Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported?
Noem: Sir, we have not deported U.S. Citizens or military veterans.
Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country in Panama in 1989. Earlier this year, you deported him to Korea. Can you please tell Mr. Park why you deported him?
Scientists identified ribose (used in RNA) and – for the first time in any extraterrestrial sample – glucose, a major energy source for life. These sugars join nucleobases and phosphates previously found, demonstrating the full suite of RNA building blocks were present on the ancient asteroid.
The best protocol to eliminate filler words (ummms etc.) These are otherwise very difficult to eliminate b/c they happen reflexively. Matt Abrahams on the Huberman Lab podcast out now all about how to speak clearly and with confidence.