Being exhausted after a work day => reading vintage magazines and posting funny things from them
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Aaand we're back to Forbes June 1929, riiiight before the Great Crash of 1929
@nina_kali_nina Overheard in the cockpit: "Hey! I didn't know sheep could fly at this altitude!"
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Aaand we're back to Forbes June 1929, riiiight before the Great Crash of 1929
Ayyyy, Forbes 1929, interview with Edison, saying solar is the future, and coal and oil suck:
"For one thing, Edison believes the time is coming when mankind will draw electrical energy on a large scale directly from the sun. Ever since the age of steam started the world to rolling at a heightened speed, so far as man is concerned, we have been drawing on the bank account of old sunlight. Coal is sun energy which was stored long ago in vegetation, petroleum is the same thing stored in low forms of animal life. But like all bank accounts they can be overdrawn."
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Ayyyy, Forbes 1929, interview with Edison, saying solar is the future, and coal and oil suck:
"For one thing, Edison believes the time is coming when mankind will draw electrical energy on a large scale directly from the sun. Ever since the age of steam started the world to rolling at a heightened speed, so far as man is concerned, we have been drawing on the bank account of old sunlight. Coal is sun energy which was stored long ago in vegetation, petroleum is the same thing stored in low forms of animal life. But like all bank accounts they can be overdrawn."
@nina_kali_nina "World's greatest inventor"...
But he wasn't wrong. Shockingly correct, even!
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"No Violent Collapse Likely", said Forbes about the Florida land boom in February 1926. A single hurricane killed the boom in September, and a severe financial crisis has followed, including many unsecured bond defaults, and banks collapsing.
@nina_kali_nina >"the buggle won't bust
>bubble proceeds to burstevery damn time
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Ayyyy, Forbes 1929, interview with Edison, saying solar is the future, and coal and oil suck:
"For one thing, Edison believes the time is coming when mankind will draw electrical energy on a large scale directly from the sun. Ever since the age of steam started the world to rolling at a heightened speed, so far as man is concerned, we have been drawing on the bank account of old sunlight. Coal is sun energy which was stored long ago in vegetation, petroleum is the same thing stored in low forms of animal life. But like all bank accounts they can be overdrawn."
@nina_kali_nina STRAIGHT FROM THE
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Being exhausted after a work day => reading vintage magazines and posting funny things from them
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@nina_kali_nina "World's greatest inventor"...
But he wasn't wrong. Shockingly correct, even!
@hp hindsight is a gift, but this interview from 1929 is surprisingly spot-on for many, many things. "Progress in batteries is difficult, but possible, just will take time"; "New forms of energy generation will be discovered"; "wind turbines and off-shore energy, even volcanic heat are going to be used"; "wireless energy transmission will be mostly a very niche thing"
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@hp hindsight is a gift, but this interview from 1929 is surprisingly spot-on for many, many things. "Progress in batteries is difficult, but possible, just will take time"; "New forms of energy generation will be discovered"; "wind turbines and off-shore energy, even volcanic heat are going to be used"; "wireless energy transmission will be mostly a very niche thing"
@nina_kali_nina wow, that's really prescient. I will read that article!
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@nina_kali_nina
who up kelvinating their water@Dio9sys who wouldn't a porcelain fridge
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@nina_kali_nina wow, that's really prescient. I will read that article!
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@nina_kali_nina thank you!
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Ayyyy, Forbes 1929, interview with Edison, saying solar is the future, and coal and oil suck:
"For one thing, Edison believes the time is coming when mankind will draw electrical energy on a large scale directly from the sun. Ever since the age of steam started the world to rolling at a heightened speed, so far as man is concerned, we have been drawing on the bank account of old sunlight. Coal is sun energy which was stored long ago in vegetation, petroleum is the same thing stored in low forms of animal life. But like all bank accounts they can be overdrawn."
Holy guacamole, I would never guessed it's a STAPLER
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Holy guacamole, I would never guessed it's a STAPLER
For all your vintage stapling needs: https://typecast.munk.org/2019/07/14/staplers-stapling-machines-fasteners-volume-2-neva-clog/
Great review
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Forbes, April 1930, the beginning of the Great Depression. The topic of the issue is "Are U. S. Business Leaders Morons?" with the editorial written by Forbes himself.
Forbes says:
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ARE our business leaders morons? A Are they incapable of meeting evils begotten by their own activities ?Must they be regarded as irresponsible citizens, concerned only with money-making?
Have those playing a foremost part in revolutionizing modern industry no qualms about making such a confession as this:
“Business is business. The objective of industry is to make money. We are determined to make money. We concentrate solely on that aim. If we are satisfied that a billion-dollar merger will mean greater profits, we go ahead and engineer it."
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The disturbing truth is that our economic revolution had released an abnormal number of workers even during our period of greatest prosperity.
Giving authority to a fool is like giving dynamite to a boy.
Betraying confidences doesn’t inspire confidence.
@nina_kali_nina "No way to prevent this, says only economic system where this regularly happens" (h/t @cadey)
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Holy guacamole, I would never guessed it's a STAPLER
@nina_kali_nina The only time I've ever seen a stapler clog was when something went very wrong with the metal staple, which then proceeded to load....ish.
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Holy guacamole, I would never guessed it's a STAPLER
"The fond admiration that office workers entertain for this little device could only have developed from their grateful relief at finally finding a stapling machine that cheerfully, quickly, and unfailingly does what it was bought to do."
Now I want one, and I don't even have anything to staple.
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For all your vintage stapling needs: https://typecast.munk.org/2019/07/14/staplers-stapling-machines-fasteners-volume-2-neva-clog/
Great review
@nina_kali_nina tbh this is so cool lol
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Holy guacamole, I would never guessed it's a STAPLER
@nina_kali_nina be a clever clogs, buy neva clogs
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Being exhausted after a work day => reading vintage magazines and posting funny things from them
@nina_kali_nina my favourite example of something from a vintage magazine/brochure is a phone hardware manufacturer who had 3 men in suits staring sorted by height at a circuit board
