Being exhausted after a work day => reading vintage magazines and posting funny things from them

[sudo_eatpant@critter.cafe]

@nina_kali_nina the Zone of Kelvination

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

@sudo_EatPant funny how they say I can consult "the man in my city" so they would install a kelvinator in my refrigerator (because obviously the word "refrigerator" used to mean a different thing)

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@nina_kali_nina "If You Use Kelvinator Once You Will Be Cold Forever"

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

A 100 years ago, Forbes give an advice how to to avoid "Dollar Charmers", exposing how "the Smooth Gentry" work. Surprising that most fraud methods mentioned are still in use "as is" or with little changes, huh.

[amsomniac@mastodon.mit.edu]

@nina_kali_nina the envelope game is one I'd probably fall for. it's gotta take more than a name to get power of attorney, *padme face* right?

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

@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@tech.lgbt]

"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.

[thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io]

@nina_kali_nina "WALL STREET and bankers throughout the country are anxiously asking, “When will the computer brain boom burst?” They are apprehensive, also, concerning the possible effect upon the securities markets and upon the rest of the country. There is but little need, I am inclined to think, for alarm on this score. In the first place, it is not at all certain that there will be any violent collapse. My own opinion on this point has been much modified since I have delved into the actual conditions."

[pfooti@toot.cat]

@nina_kali_nina ice nine, only need a little of it

[gabrielesvelto@mas.to]

@nina_kali_nina similarities with our current predicament are completely accidental, we're absolutely not on the verge of a financial collapse

[monsieur_lepetit@toot.community]

@nina_kali_nina
"Aha crazy right! In unrelated news, buy my meme coin, absolut legit, full guarantee"

[hp@mastodon.tmm.cx]

@nina_kali_nina for a moment I thought that was some kind of data storage medium...

I need to log off.

[foone@digipres.club]

@hp @nina_kali_nina hmm... I should devise a way to encode data into ice cubes

[hp@mastodon.tmm.cx]

@foone @nina_kali_nina the FOONVINATOR

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

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."

...

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.