Good morning folks

Skimming a copy of a Judy Blume book and... someone 'updated' it?

Peter asks for a clock radio and a laptop and an mp3 player and six cds?

The fuck?

I **really** fucking hate this shit.
Doesn't make sense - why would he want a clock radio AND a laptop? A clock radio made sense in the 80s, that was some 'oh, check out my BETTER clock', but no kid asks for that shit now

Ah. they HAD to keep the clock radio, because that's what Peter gets, and it's mentioned later.

See, this shit? It doesn't make sense. Just leave old books alone. You do more damage than anything else.

There's this perception that kids will reject anything not modern, anything not immediately adjacent to their own time's culture and just... *pinches bridge of nose* no?

There's definitely a window where you go 'ok, this is well and truly too old', but that's usually about linguistics more than tape players and clock radios vs cds and mp3s (why would Peter want CDs AND an mp3 player? I know there was somewhat of a time when you'd do that, but not most peoplpe)

You know what does happen when you collapse shit into the modern frame?

Kids end up completely oblivious to how things were, what things were in use in the past, etc.

You just end up with 'we've always had MP3 players and laptops'

My friend is in charge of a racing team with a ford Focus, and apparently they're up to engine swap number 12 or some shit in 3 years
I have a feeling I know why this person is always not feeling physically well...
This... went places.
Ah, I see leftist american reddit is doing the 'Someone I don't like has <kink>, so kinkshaming is back on the menu!'
There's just a raft of 'I'm a really good person, an activist, actually' folks out there who seem to drop into bodyshaming and kinkshaming at the drop of the hat, so long as they can scream out 'PUNCHING UP' if they're called on it.

We absolutely fuckin' see you doing it, and we track names.

All the 'small hands' shit, yep, we see you too.

1000%, you fuckers would drop the N-word if you thought you could 'punch up' with it.

'This is a vintage cookie jar'

Right

'From the 90s'

**hards stare**

Gathering together, sorting through all my rando small electronics stuff (displays, esp32's, buttons, etc)

I think I'm missing a box or two of rando stuff. Certainly, I should have more displays and esp32s than this...

Alright, reconciled a bunch of old small electronics shit (there's a few old projects there), mostly sorted out stuff into various tubs/small boxes. I now have a 'ok, it's time' box with some esp32s, some button kits and so forth for when I want to get into this project.
Still missing a LOT of those small 0.96" displays. I can replace them easily (they're about 1 buck from aliexpress?) but it's weird not to find stuff.
@DarkestKale Do you have enough fans?
@MachineLordZero the esp's don't get very hot - buuuut, at work, I may have a stockpile of about 300 or so fans, so I'll be alright if I need a few ;)