Salomon Hernandez

Testing life.

[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.

[Salomon Hernandez @ozm10]

@ThePrimeagen Cognition post feel like this "a user"

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

As foretold in the prophecy 🙏

[Salomon Hernandez @ozm10]

@goth600 Free shipping?

[Retro Anime @retro_anime]

Pokemon (1996) https://t.co/Vj6TusyKzv

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Elden Ring is some of the most beautiful art ever created

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

"Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in."

-- Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Les Paul playing Les Paul made by Les Paul, 1953

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

You cannot get educated by this self-propagating system in which people study to pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.

You learn something by doing it yourself, by asking questions, by thinking, and by experimenting.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Elden Ring, experienced in its entirety, is the most beautiful art I have ever seen

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

• If you're wrong, admit it.
• If you're confused, ask questions.
• If you're stuck, seek for help.
• If you make mistake, learn from it.
• If you learn something, teach others.

[Salomon Hernandez @ozm10]

@thermalgadget how is this going so far?

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Have fun. Fall in love. Regret nothing, and don't let people bring you down. Study, think, create, and grow. Teach yourself and teach others. 🧠

[The Stoic Emperor @TheStoicEmperor]

Many get the advice they need and say:

“I already know that.”

If you aren’t acting on it, you don’t “know it" in any meaningful sense.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Don't be impressed by money, followers, degrees, and titles.
Be impressed by kindness, integrity, humility, and generosity.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

When you are dead, you don't know you are dead. It's pain only for others.

It's the same thing when you are stupid.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Don't regret anything in life. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience!
When you win, you win. When you lose, you learn.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

If you find science boring, you're learning it from a wrong teacher.