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i don't know nothing about nothing

[stephen @stephenspaceman]

i hear about 3 lp's a year that are worthy of being discussed as 'an album', for everything else pick the best two songs and throw the rest in the trash. shit for 90% of it throw it all in the trash. waste of resources.

[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.

[stephen @stephenspaceman]

@user84829272 that cabin is where i want to wake up every morning

[stephen @stephenspaceman]

Rapid fire reviews:

1) Royal Assassin - Hobb
Boring and gay 6.5/10

[stephen @stephenspaceman]

progress means bad things happen faster

[stephen @stephenspaceman]

halfway through house of chains

[stephen @stephenspaceman]

reading deadhouse gates

[stephen @stephenspaceman]

i liked itkovian and whatnot, but why did this mfer do that before the final battle. he could have waited 30 minutes.

[stephen @stephenspaceman]

all i can say about the accountant 2 is that a lot of choices were made

[stephen @stephenspaceman]

if i was 20, instead of getting a shit job that makes me feel raped everyday i would simply walk the earth

[stephen @stephenspaceman]

@s4m31p4n yes you should do this

[stephen @stephenspaceman]

it's cool that 95% of all phone numbers now belong to robot spammers. glad to pay a monthly fee for access to this crucial infrastructure.

[stephen @stephenspaceman]

absolutely jacked on starbucks energy refreshers. these are going to kill someone.

[Bredd @Breddicus]

Yo Japan check this shit out

[stephen @stephenspaceman]

this dutch guy has been renovating his stone cabins in the italian alps and filming it for like four years now. it's my comfort watch. https://t.co/x0uCgMv5Bt

[stephen @stephenspaceman]

went to japan last autumn and it was as great as i always hoped it would be.

[stephen @stephenspaceman]

@TheBigDoink_ he probably said some crazy shit too

[stephen @stephenspaceman]

my feed has been so good the past two days

[stephen @stephenspaceman]

give me a dsbm cover of everything

[stephen @stephenspaceman]

@user84829272 the canadian side is pretty nice, was there last april. this was the view from the sidewalk down there.