Kale 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?
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
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.
Worthless Bums@DarkestKale leftists telling me leftists can't be raging bigots or classist or ableist af, possibly chasing it with "no true leftist"
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