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[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.

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Giving Cincy hell 🤣 #PCA #LFG #GoCubs

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Chicago 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 Philly

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Nicki is having a Kanye level crash out. Someone help herrrr.

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@JNics415 Stop this is so cute 😭😭😭

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Someone out there please make a version of @Nanit that actually works. All these false notifications, zero compatibility with 3rd party apps that they claim work, etc. Expensive for no reason. R&D, I urge you to read just one reddit thread on your performance issues.

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Sorry to all the Socks fans that wait all year for their version of the Super Bowl ☹️

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Wow 😭

[Greg Payne @greg_payne24]

I recently read about man who collects pictures of hitters who had hit walk-off home runs. He said that the reason he did this is because this is how he views us entering heaven.

Look at the faces of his teammates waiting to welcome him home. Look at their excitement. They can’t wait to celebrate with him.

Look at the fans. Arms raised, big smiles, maybe even hugs for a perfect stranger.

Perhaps this is your first holiday season without someone important who is now waiting for you in heaven. Maybe it’s just another one with that big hole in your heart and an empty seat at the table. Either way, I hope you can find encouragement in this picture, what it represented to the man who collected it, and find joy this year. #heaven #hope #joy #grief

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I wish Hard Knocks was still filming lol

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FREE THE HOMIE

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

"Did what I had to do as a Korean citizen."

South Korean special forces soldier faces jail time after knocking out streamer Johnny Somali

[Big Cat @BarstoolBigCat]

I can’t believe the Bears did the right thing for once. There was no way Eberflus could coach another game for this team given the last month.

Now the real work begins. The next hire is the most important in Bears history given what we have in Caleb Williams. HAVE to nail this

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😂🎯

[PFT Commenter @PFTCommenter]

It looks like a hit of mdma kicked in half way through this Jameis interview

[Tyler Roney @TylerJRoney]

The Mike Tyson/Jake Paul fight with no context #TysonPaul #PaulTyson

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We all need friends like @stoolpresidente

[✶Ⓜ️𝕒𝕣𝕔𝕦𝕤 ▶️✶ @_MarcusD3_]

Still continuing to add all the times I've seen Caleb Williams say Da Bears, or Go Bears starting from his introduction press conference to today on the field after the win in London.

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😂😂😂

[Chicago White Sox @whitesox]

FINAL: the other team scored more runs than us

[trevy @chillextremist]

Microsoft is a crazy thing to name your company

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“At least we have our D” - Bears fans, forever and ever and ever …

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@Jerrythekid21 😂😂😂