How do you not like @DaleJr ? Jr. gives a masterclass on what unapologetic accountability looks like and how through personal reflection you can improve decision making, instead of playing the victim card and/or blame game. The lack of accountability and personal responsibility in our society today has us on a path that is totally unsustainable and will eventually doom our country. Seriously, is there any human alive today that is more likeable than Jr. is? Guy is completely genuine, takes ownership for everything he does--right or wrong, good or bad. He's one of the best story tellers ever and is really funny and always seems to enjoy all parts of life. If we encounter aliens and have to put together a small group of people to be our representatives at the first meeting, then Jr. absolutely need to be a part of that crew.

THERE IS A GOD. This is going to make KUWTK look like Basketball Wives. The season premiere will draw superbowl/WCF numbers @spencerpratt @heidimontag x.com/BasedNewsroom/status/2…

GRAPHIC VIDEOS WARNING. Multiple passenger videos along with flight tracker view. The long post below all the @DENAirport posts into one post because they won’t pay $8/month. Statement from DEN on incident tonight: Frontier Flight 4345 reported striking a pedestrian during takeoff at DEN at approximately 11:19 p.m. on Friday, May 8, 2026. There was a brief engine fire that was promptly extinguished by the Denver Fire Dept. (1/2) Emergency crews responded to the scene and bussed passengers to the terminal. 231 souls were on board. Emergency response and investigation are ongoing. The NTSB has been notified. Runway 17L will remain closed while the investigation is conducted. 2/2 At approximately 11:19 p.m., Frontier Flight 4345 reported striking a pedestrian during takeoff at DEN. Emergency crews responded to the scene. Passengers were bussed to the terminal and the majority have since departed DEN on a new Frontier flight. (1/4) DEN can confirm the pedestrian jumped the perimeter fence and was hit just two minutes later while crossing the runway. The pedestrian is deceased, and is not believed to be an employee of the airport nor have they been identified. (2/4) The airport has examined the fenceline and found it to be intact. 12 people reported minor injuries and 5 of these were transported to local hospitals. Runway 17L remains closed for investigation and we expect it will be open within the next couple hours. (3/4) We are extremely saddened by this incident and express our sympathies to those involved. (4/4)

This gets to the core of the issue more than any debate about specific terms. Do you believe in democracy? Should our military be regulated by our elected leaders, or corporate executives? Seemingly innocuous terms from the latter like "You cannot target innocent civilians" are actually moral minefields that lever differences of cultural tradition into massive control. Who is a civilian and not? What makes them innocent or not? What does it mean for them to be a "target" vs collateral damage? Existing policy and law has very clear answers for these questions, but unelected corporations managing profits and PR will often have a very different answer. Imagine if a missile company tried to enforce the above policy, that their product cannot be used to target innocent civilians, that they can shut off access if elected leaders decide to break those terms. Sounds, good, right? Not really - in addition to the value judgement problems I list above, you also have to account for questions like: -What level of information, classified and otherwise, does the corporation receive that would allow them to make these determinations? How much leverage would they have to demand more? -What if an elected President merely threatens a dictator with using our weapons in a certain way, ala Madman Theory/MAD? Is the threat seen as empty because the dictator knows the corporate executives will cut off the military? Is the threat enough to trigger the cutoff? How might either of those determinations vary if the current corporate executive happens to like the dictator or dislike the President? -At what level of confidence does the cutoff trigger, both in writing and in reality? The fact that this is a debate over AI does not change the underlying calculus. The same problems apply to definitions and use of ethically fraught but important capabilities like surveillance systems or autonomous weapons. It is easy to say "But they will have cutouts to operate with autonomous systems for defensive use!", but you immediately get into the same issues and more - what is autonomous? What is defensive? What about defending an asset during an offensive action, or parking a carrier group off the coast of a nation that considers us to be offensive? At the end of the day, you have to believe that the American experiment is still ongoing, that people have the right to elect and unelect the authorities making these decisions, that our imperfect constitutional republic is still good enough to run a country without outsourcing the real levers of power to billionaires and corpos and their shadow advisors. I still believe. And that is why "bro just agree the AI won't be involved in autonomous weapons or mass surveillance why can't you agree it is so simple please bro" is an untenable position that the United States cannot possibly accept.

BASED!!! American tennis star Danielle Collins defeated home favorite Destanee Aiava and had a message to the haters: “Every person that bought a ticket to come heckle me, it's all going towards the Danielle Collins Fund. Bring it on.” American swagger is back! FAFO