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.

Elon musk is a white supremacist Nazi who is hated by the majority of Britons. Just felt like that needed to be said.

While in America I’ve had like 3 instances where I’ve went to pay for stuff like the bus or drinks and I’m just waved off and told it’s free and I’m so confused as to why this keeps happening

US Navy uses cutting-edge new drone boat to rescue Apache pilots who crashed near Strait of Humuz trib.al/8sgqFOu

A Saronic Corsair unmanned surface vessel rescued the Army AH-64 Apache crew after they crashed near the Strait of Hormuz in the waters of Oman yesterday, the first-ever rescue of downed aircrew by a drone boat -WSJ

Built a micro site for the @cognition @8vc Rocket League Tournament ⚽️🚗 Complete with a custom modeled Fennec body kit and cognition livery

Who's got an ai bot or workflow that can clean up all my @figma projects... name my layers, organize all my reference photos into clean, labeled grids of similar size etc??

We're hosting this quarter's design meetup NYC. @DrCapsoul whipped up this fun event landing page with a few hidden easter eggs. If you're a ravenously talented designer/design engineer consider joining us! Space is very limited, link below.