Mike

[Mike @mcw517]

@CynicalPublius All true and good points, only difference is people here die of fentanyl inside their homes and not on the sidewalks.

[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.

[Mike @mcw517]

@BFW How do you contest Detroit? It is literally hockey town.

[Mike @mcw517]

@spikesguides The cherry on top is that she is a “business coach for moms”

[Yack @YackThaJawn]

YouTube TV actively ruining my day by showing speed skating instead of Canada vs Finland. Some dipshit needs to be fired

[Mike @mcw517]

@alt_w_v_g This is poetry

[Michael Malice @michaelmalice]

I didn't believe Islam was taking over Minnesota until I saw the officer shoot that woman simply for driving a car

[Mike @mcw517]

@sweatystartup Not Volvo

[jynx @jynxbby]

i wonder if a butterfly has ever wanted a tattoo of a fat girl

[Battle Beagle @HarmlessYardDog]

Being told you need intellectual help from countries without drinkable water is low tier gaslighting.

[Mike @mcw517]

@dmat13484493 @shawngorham It’s pretty common in public bid work but I agree otherwise

[Mike @mcw517]

@J_Swish24 Prongs by a mile

[Sid Seixeiro @Sid_Seixeiro]

Connor McDavid, the best player in the world, took a 0% raise to stay in Edmonton.

You would think that would warrant a teammate reacting, in any real way, when he gets treated like this.

[T_p_tio 🎈 @Txp_RBI_Xctuxl]

The morbidly obese should pay more for health insurance just like people with DUI's have to pay more for car insurance.

[Jimmy Failla @jimmyfailla]

Mamdani had a CASH BAR at his victory party. If you can’t get a free vodka from this guy something tells me the free food and buses ain’t coming. Congrats, suckers.

[Brad Chadlington @BradChadlington]

The richest, whitest, most sheltered girl you know from wealthiest suburb in the country is posting a picture of Zohran Mamdani on her story right now captioned “power to the people!!!” from her Soho apartment that’s paid for by her wealthy conservative father

[Jordan Schmaltz @J_Swish24]

Ace, Coop here 🤣🤣🤣

[Jordan Schmaltz @J_Swish24]

Just went live for the good people in St. Louis ..📞📞

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Brad Marchand is taking a leave from the Panthers to spend time in Halifax helping out a friend whose 10 year old daughter died of cancer

He’s coaching a U18 team tonight in his friend’s place

All-Time Human Being

[DAgs @I_like_DAgs]

@InternetH0F I feel so bad for kids that have to be a
part of their parents sick TikTok dream life … basically child abuse