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[matt @mplussm]

@TylerAlterman Because the people are heavily skewed nerdy and boring?

[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.

[matt @mplussm]

@alexisohanian Great book

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@bryan_johnson Haha

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@adelwu_ Killspencer

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@texasrunnerDFW Gluten free dairy free and lots of water. It’s fine.

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@_sorrengailll @Apple Pretty sure we are getting farmed for training data for voice to text

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@TurnerNovak What about Manhattan, purchased for $1000

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@Matt_Pinner 2

[Dan Rysk @DanDeFiEd]

Italian efficiency when it comes to coffee should be studied.

In Italy:
- Walk into a bar and look at the guy
- Un caffe
- 30 seconds later it’s ready
- Shoot it
- Leave €1
- Walk out

In the US:
- Join a line
- Wait
- Order coffee
- Answer 12 questions: Size? Milk? Roast? Sugar? Temperature? Colombia beans? Name? How do you spell it?
- $12.34
- Ask for a 20% tip. Click 5 times on a ipad to have a custom tip
- Tap phone
- ask where to send the invoice
- Wait again on a different line
- Someone call a name that sounds similar to mine
- get the coffee
- too hot, can't drink it
- finally at temperature

taste like shit

[matt @mplussm]

@ProV1Smile Post workout beer

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@Hadley @grok how should one plan their finances given this information?

[matt @mplussm]

@sciencegirl Myst, StarCraft, Red Alert, Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem, HalfLife, Diablo, Warcraft, Grand Theft Auto, Sim City, Civilization, Lemmings, Worms

[Prairie Putz @putzisbackbaby]

No debt
Ideal weight
8 hours of sleep
Mental health on track
Right nutrition
Zero Alcohol
This was my peak. I was 8.

Good times…

[matt @mplussm]

@TurnerNovak Hard to tell whether this is a joke or not

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@1ssve It should be made into a law that this is required

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@walterkirn No

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@brockpierson It’s a great question that is rarely contemplated.

[matt @mplussm]

@roguesnradvisor @enlightenedcoop @grok can you summarize the most crazy stuff this post references, in 25 bullet points please?

[sophie @netcapgirl]

me: i would like to buy a launch on a reusable rocket

spaceX: ok

me: i would also like high speed satellite internet

spaceX: got it

me: also do you know where i can find access to a frontier ai model and a social media site?

spaceX: you’re not gonna believe this