not an original observation but remember that one brief beautiful moment in time when you could buy a big flatscreen tv that was just a big screen you could plug good computers into instead of an extremely shitty computer you have to navigate every time you want to get to the good computer inputs
![wikipedia screenshot. text: Speak, published in 1999, is a young adult novel by Laurie Halse Anderson that tells the story of high school freshman Melinda Sordino.[1][2] After Melinda is raped at an end of summer party, she calls the police, who break up the party. Melinda is then ostracized by her peers because she will not say why she called the police.[1][2] Unable to verbalize what happened, Melinda nearly stops speaking altogether,[1] expressing her voice through the art she produces for Mr. Freeman's class.[1][3] This expression slowly helps Melinda acknowledge what happened, face her problems, and recreate her identity.[2][4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qsd2p2hhu5idyp7nwlc3yscl/bafkreigh5usf64ko2znh7ujsvtfsldzpmq54cpki4d7flna2lebak77j3i)
