Being exhausted after a work day => reading vintage magazines and posting funny things from them
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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
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Holy guacamole, I would never guessed it's a STAPLER
Forbes, April 1930: stocks recover a little, and many analytics, include Forbes himself, expect a happy second half of the year (but no, Great Depression has begun already)
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Forbes, April 1930: stocks recover a little, and many analytics, include Forbes himself, expect a happy second half of the year (but no, Great Depression has begun already)
Til "library paste" and "photo paste". Paste. Ctrl+V is paste... Oh...
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Holy guacamole, I would never guessed it's a STAPLER
@nina_kali_nina 15 day trials for a stapler! I suspect it was not as cheap as the ones we get today. Then again it is also a pet.
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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 I would never have guessed there was a vintage stapler collector community, let alone that some of them could be seriously valuable. But I suppose they would be similarly surprised about us collecting pitifully slow 8- and 16-bit computers.
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Til "library paste" and "photo paste". Paste. Ctrl+V is paste... Oh...
@nina_kali_nina “soft, sweet, and clean”
Well good to know it tastes good, I guess.
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@nina_kali_nina “soft, sweet, and clean”
Well good to know it tastes good, I guess.
@bytex64 @nina_kali_nina i like my library paste like i like my librarians...
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Being exhausted after a work day => reading vintage magazines and posting funny things from them
Kelvinator,... take me away. 🧊
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@amsomniac Send me an envelope with your address and name, and I will send you a reply to your question in it! /j
@nina_kali_nina
If you ever find yourself in need
You can submit your request in writing
And this is what you do
Send it in a self-addressed, stamped envelope
To: PO Box 900
Los Angeles, California
90212
And I will fill your prescription with some degree of accuracy
And then I'll send it back to you -
Til "library paste" and "photo paste". Paste. Ctrl+V is paste... Oh...
@nina_kali_nina And it tastes great right from the jar!
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Holy guacamole, I would never guessed it's a STAPLER
@nina_kali_nina "second largest number of users"? What did the largest number of users say? This ad is specifically formulated to enrage
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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:
----
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."
...
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.
"Are U. S. Business Leaders Morons?" seems as perennial to me as are the fraud methods described above-thread.
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Til "library paste" and "photo paste". Paste. Ctrl+V is paste... Oh...
@nina_kali_nina You can still buy this type of glue from an Italian company today...
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@nina_kali_nina "second largest number of users"? What did the largest number of users say? This ad is specifically formulated to enrage
@phooky Largest number: Is in fact a stapler and not a bobcat
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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:
----
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."
...
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 My how we've progressed as a society...not!
