friend got lucky when he was an ex prisoner to get a job working for a conservative...he was a skilled machinist

paid him close to a fair union wage

i wish it would be the 60s or some shit like that

an era where people had critical thinking

I don’t care about your background, if you’ve had a lifestyle change and your skilled in your work, id hire you for the full price

^

However, I’m not an employer, so...

critical thinking in the 60's ...age of 'free love' and 'hiding under desks for nuke attacks'

lol

those infomercials

that's a small portion of cons in the 60s

growing up parents made me read dictionary and encyclopedias

and those books were mostly pre 60's

So, there's the highlighted "importation" but what stood out more (to me) was the "as president". 🤨

Same here...and the farmer's almanac 🤦‍♀️

we lived in the city and even we had the famer's almanac

also had the complete works of shakesphere

sun tzu too

had alot of interesting books

ma would hit book stores or thrift stores to find 'college' books for us to read and learn ahead

Those are all good books.

just wish she stole the medical books from that bio lab tho

there was shit in there u couldn't find online

i wish i coulda stolen them as well..i did work there for a while

stupid lab used a simple keypad on the library

We didn't have good internet growing up...it was the age of the 56k modems and aol. So books was all we got.

with screws on the keypad

i'm in my mid 50's

so for me, it was pre aol mostly

So u know how it was.

it was faster connection to mail via postal a floppy to a friend in another state or nation than to rely on 'internet' connection speeds to do it

Yeah, i remember.

why do u think aol sent out floppies to everybody...free signups and first month free

because to dl it would take a few months over dialup

well with aol's speed...most of the connection to aol was to dl their spam

compuserve was actually faster for the same modem connection....almost no spam

and just as cheap if not cheaper...yet 'aol' won the dialup wars

they got their users via mass spamming via postal, and they made most of their money from the spam online

i never actually had my own dialup access via compuserve nor aol(pc was allergic to aol)...my first dialup experience was via my bro's bbs servers...my first isp was 'erols internet' ..and that was for 56k modems

i had rigged a switch in my basement where my pc was setup ...near the incoming house phone line ...to cut off all incoming calls to phones in the house while i'm online via the modem

parents weren't very happy but they soon accepted it