firstnamedrew

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

In one hand: a clothespin from the 1960s. Solid hardwood, smooth from decades of use. It still works perfectly, some 60 years later.
In the other: a clothespin from 2025. Lighter, paler wood, brittle. The spring is thin and unstable. Marketed as “extra durable,” my dad just raised an eyebrow.
At first glance, it’s just two clothespins. But they tell a bigger story — the shift from durability to disposability, from craftsmanship to cost-cutting, from stewardship to constant consumption. This is planned obsolescence in action.
Products are designed to fail so we must keep buying. Slowly, subtly, they break. Frayed wires, cracked hinges, brittle springs. Not because we want more, but because the old was never built to last.
The costs are everywhere. Landfills overflow. Wallets empty. And maybe most quietly, our spirits grow accustomed to impermanence, to the idea that nothing is meant to endure.
What if this philosophy extends beyond objects? What if it shapes how we treat relationships, communities, homes, even the Earth — as temporary, replaceable, disposable?
It doesn’t have to be this way. That 1960s clothespin reminds us another path is possible. That we once made things to last, and we can again. That quality, care, and intention matter. That we can design for repair, for continuity, for meaning.

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

So we all know how this goes…

Dozens of Republicans took bad votes. Why? Because incumbents don’t like to cut spending in midterms.

The alternative is NOT to vote Democrat.

It's to primary the weak Republicans with strong ones.

[Casey B. Head @CaseyBHead]

You need to be eating at mom and pop cafes, diners, and greasy spoons if you do not want them to vanish from this land.

[firstnamedrew @firstnamedrew]

@elonmusk TBF she prob voted for this

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Bret Weinstein just said something that won’t leave my head:
For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented — sex and pair-bonding.

Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the evolutionary lottery ticket without paying the 20-year mortgage of pregnancy, diapers, sleepless nights, and college funds.

Result? An entire generation of 18–35-year-olds walking around with the energy, libido, hormones, and protective instincts that evolution spent millions of years calibrating for child-rearing… but with zero actual children. That energy didn’t disappear. It got redirected.

Heather Heying’s observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is — it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think.

And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as “free” as sex became in the 1970s. Both of evolution’s primary carrots — mating and resource acquisition suddenly cost almost nothing.

Weinstein’s ice-cold question: When producing and protecting actual children is no longer the central organizing principle of adult life… and when creating wealth is no longer required for status, security, or attracting a mate…What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure?

Are we about to become a species that invents bigger and bigger dragons to slay just to feel alive? Or do we drift into total listlessness? This 3:52 clip is genuinely haunting.

Watch it all the way through, then tell me — honestly — does this explain the absolute intensity we’re seeing in culture right now, or is Bret completely missing something?

Real answers only. Quote-post if it hits you in the chest like it hit me.

[Legal Phil @Legal_Fil]

Can’t help but notice that since it was renamed the Gulf of America, hurricanes have decided not to mess with it.

[firstnamedrew @firstnamedrew]

@xhabib Too late?

[firstnamedrew @firstnamedrew]

@DerrickEvans4WV To be fair... Most Americans don't want to buy that shitty land beside military bases... It's always the hood or whiskey tango

[Just Loki @LokiJulianus]

These new ICE recruitment ads have gotten intense.

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

Finishing this fight.

[Paz @TheRealQuenny]

Yes it does

[Checkerëd: Complaining Evolved📎 @NotCheckered]

THIS is how you the CE remake should've looked like.

[DAKKADAKKA @DAKKADAKKA1]

They put a fucking AMMO COUNT SCREEN ON THE NEEDLER

[Vuthakral @Vuthakral]

Halo CE had the player at full sprint speeds at all times. It is the fastest base movement speed in the franchise. It does not "need sprint". To add it would require slowing the player down. if you believe it needs sprint then I honestly don't know what to tell you.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I'm starting to realize that GWOT veterans have a non-obvious calling to speak to the American people.

It's up to us to explain the sheer evil of Sharia law and Islamic government to the American people.

It's come to my attention that many, many Americans simply do not believe in the existence of the horrific practices of Islamic society with respect to women, non-Muslim faithful, LGBTQ+, and the Third World workers they treat as literal slaves.

Those stories are so horrible that many Americans cannot comprehend them--they assume they must be lies motivated by racism, hatred of a different faith, or just bad information.

But it's all true. We GWOT veterans KNOW it is all true because we have seen these horrors with our own eyes, over and over and over.

Perhaps that is why God called us to war--not to conquer, but to gain first-hand knowledge of this pervasive evil that can be shared with the rest of America.

I believe we have a duty to share our experiences as to what we all saw so it can never happen on US soil.

[Loochy @LoochyTV]

This is essentially how I feel about COD at this point.

I’m older, slower, and no longer have the drive to button mash 24/7 anymore.

I enjoy games where I have to rely on planning ahead instead of pure reaction time nowadays.

I think BO7 looks great, it’s just not for me.

[GameStop @gamestop]

We’ll take it down when something better comes out.

[firstnamedrew @firstnamedrew]

@Halo

[ModernWarzone @ModernWarzone]

Fuck SBMM all my homies hate SBMM

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Jimmy Kimmel isn't funny