Joseph Uphoff

Enjoy every sandwich

[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.

[scoot @scootykins]

new yorkers be like you cant get the SUPC: 7110780 and SUPC: 1994294 anywhere else but here

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[Mads @europemaxxed]

Well?

[Xoxo @chicfryrice]

Boomers paid less in taxes over their lifetime than they are projected to take out of the system.

They are being subsidized by the young and have the highest wealth out of any generation before.

There should not be dedicated tax breaks for them. And why would a bill called “Working Families Tax Cut” not help working families?

[Andrew Isker 🌳🪓 @BonifaceOption]

First time homeowner here.

I got my new home for only $3.7M on a very low rate 500-year mortgage.

Yeah I splurged on a home toward the top to avoid the smell of raw sewage but I think it’s worth it.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Christians do not call burial places “necropolises”, that is, “cities of the dead”, but “cemeteries”, which literally means “sleeping places”, places where one rests, awaiting the resurrection.

[Sleeper @SleeperHQ]

Tell her Derrick Henry still doin it lol

[Joseph Uphoff @JosephUphoff]

Feels like he’s missing one

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

BREAKING!

Prime Minister @Netanyahu OFFICIALLY recognizes the Armenian, Assyrian & Greek genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire.

[Templarpilled @Templarpilled]

In 1531, an image appeared on a poor man’s cloak.

The fabric should have decayed. The colors should not exist.

Yet it endures, and science still can’t explain it.

This is the story of the tilma of our Lady of Guadalupe, a 🧵

[Chudjak @chudjak]

did something happen

[Joseph Uphoff @JosephUphoff]

Guy who went to Yale btw

[JD Vance @JDVance]

About to see Les Miserables with POTUS at the Kennedy Center.

Me to Usha: so what’s this about? A barber who kills people?

Usha; [hysterical laughter]

[Keith Woods @KeithWoodsYT]

Apparently "the art of the deal" is promising big action then almost immediately walking it back with no concessions achieved. There is just no way this was ever the plan.

It is becoming pointless to listen to Trump partisans on here. A few hours ago, the stock market crashing was a well deserved punishment to Boomers and the tariffs were part of a great strategy of reindustrialisation. Now, this was really all about punishing China. But what has actually been achieved? No one can say.

And for this stunt, the US is left with a spike in mortgage rates, a world rushing to de-dollarisation, and 90 days more of uncertainty around the promised tariffs. Rather than creating leverage for the US as part of a "deal", the bond market crash followed by the near-instant walk back has only shown how vulnerable the US is to attempting a trade war of this scale.

[bear @wriocake]

this is humiliating

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Pope Francis at Christmas Mass: “Don’t forget this, brothers and sisters, God forgives everything, God forgives all. Never forget this. This is the way to understand hope, the hope of the Lord.”

[daymon (rhythm heaven grooving) @k0rsica]

when trump removes the term limit and its obama vs trump in 2028

[Coworkeroftruth @coworkeroftruth]

“The sin of this century is the loss of the sense of sin.”—Pope Pius XII

[ic @itcanonlyget]

how it feels bein 25

[brit @booritney]

masculine behavior isn't smoking cigars or gaining muscle mass. it's getting hopelessly, life-ruiningly addicted to online chess