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.

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Why Vinay Prasad was fired from FDA -> Sarepta spends years making drug -> drug is really awful, no benefit -> studies are so cooked and terrible FDA regulators are horrified and say studies are so bad -> regulators overruled -> drug gets approved -> $3.2 million/injection -> patient advocacy groups criticize drug -> Sarepta threatens them with lawsuit -> drug explodes livers -> drug kills someone every other month -> Sarepta hides third death from investors -> FDA's Vinay Prasad strikes with ban hammer -> Sarepta stock falls to all-time low, down 88% -> Sarepta burning $1B/yr, about to go bankrupt -> Sarepta to FDA: f*ck you, we are going to keep selling the drug -> Sarepta panics privately, hires top former Trump strategist -> strategist goes to Laura Loomer -> Laura Loomer smears Prasad, who loves Trump and hates Fauci -> digs up 5-yo Prasad posts saying he hates Trump and loves Fauci -> Loomer writes pharma lobby talking points about rare diseases using words she doesn't understand -> Sarepta pretends to comply with FDA while Loomer works -> top PhRMA lobbyist copies the smears in Real Clear Health, cites Sarepta -> online pharma-run sock puppet accounts, probably run by strategist, start smearing Prasad -> WSJ copies the smears, cites Sarepta -> RFK Jr. praises Prasad privately -> FDA commissioner Marty Makary praises Prasad publicly, calls him impeccable scientist -> strategist gives video to Loomer of Prasad making fun of Trump Derangement Syndrome -> strategist/Loomer edits the video to make it look like Prasad is the one with Trump Derangement Syndrome -> Rick Santorum spam dials Trump, screams about innovation and children -> Ron Johnson spam dials Trump, same thing -> Trump says why do I have to deal with this sh*t my god why is Indian guy in FDA causing so much trouble -> Trump asks: does he really have a voodoo doll of me that he stabs? -> Bill Cassidy: wow this guy hates Trump, I saw the edited video from 5 years ago, that proves it -> Trump, wanting to be left alone, fires Prasad -> Democrats in FDA post petulant things on FDA office walls celebrating Prasad's firing -> Republicans: "innovation is saved" -> Sarepta stock price doubles -> FDA regulators now terrified of drug companies, will approve anything they want -> victory for pharma, defeat for America -> banana Republic sh*t

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🚨ZUCK: "A lot of the corporate world is pretty culturally neutered. I have three sisters, no brothers, and three daughters, and no sons. I've been surrounded by women my whole life. The masculine energy is good. Society has plenty of that, but corporate culture is really trying to get away from it. I think having a culture that celebrates aggression a bit more has its own merits that are positive and having a thing (MMA) that I can do with my guy friends is good. The intent on all these things is good. If you're a woman going into a company, it may feel like it's too masculine and that there's systems that are set up against you -- but I think these things can always go a little far. It's one thing to say we want to create a welcoming environment for everyone, and its another thing to say that masculinity is bad and its toxic and we need to get rid of it. Both of these things are good. You want masculine and feminine energy. But I do think the corporate culture has swung towards being a neutered thing. I didn't feel this until I got involved in martial arts. It just turned on a part of my brain that made me say okay, this was a piece of the puzzle that should have been there, and I'm glad it now is."