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.

The Oklahoma/Texas rivalry stays strong in the Big 12

I FUCKING LOVE THE USA

Conditioned to it 😤😤😤

It is becoming more and more obvious how important home field advantage was in the Revolutionary War

Best way to start your day. Kudos to this burner for actually tweeting, most are under their rocks

The Spurs in the NBA Finals: Game 1: Blew a 14-point lead Game 2: Blew a 12-point lead Game 4: Blew a 29-point lead Not built for this

Most performative loser in the league and it isn’t close

This is the type of Finals loss a team may never recover from, and it couldn't have happened to any other team but the Spurs. They deserve this.

Successful hate watch 3/4. 29 POINT BLOWN LEAD

Thunder fans watching the Spurs have the biggest choke job in NBA Finals history

Dude is as dumb as he is rich

I pray that the CFP committee doesn’t recognize any forfeiture losses for teams not playing tech or any wins tech receives from forfeitures. The kid can get kicked from football (like he should) and still get help from Tech if they’re that concerned for him

All the homies hate Tech and Sorsby

In. Big fan of the HD-2D style

Easy when you’re allowed to play football

Player and institution needs to be banished to the shadow realm. This is ridiculous.

The British being unprepared to perform on American soil has been a tradition since 1776