Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI
Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI
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Were the Epstein files too legible?
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Calibri kind of sucks, it's better on screen then TNR, but it's ugly as shit still. A better font could probably be found that reads well on screen and in print. But:
Rubio did admit in the memo that Calibri wasn’t the “most illegal, immoral, radical or wasteful” example of DEI to his mind’s eye, but he still berated the font for contributing to “the degradation” of the State Department’s official correspondence.
Fuck this guy, regardless.
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Ugh.
At least Arial exists. And Helvetica. But Times New Roman? What is this, English class in the early aughts? 12pt font, double spaced with one inch margins?
Hell, if you want wanna make America great again make it Courier; tech bros'll think you're coding but we know you really just want to take us back to late 1800s when typewriters and bad economic policy were in. Or maybe something appropriate for this administration, like Wingdings.
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Times New Roman is disgusting
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So... Just tell the browser to display Times New Roman as Calibri. Problem solved. I'm just amazed that this guy wastes his time and tax payer paid salary on something like this and people just accept it.
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More distractions
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Oh they found that the font was helping someone. Can't have that.
These people are such fucking trash...
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You know how if you're reading a headline from the onion and you mistake it for real you've "eaten the onion?"
Is there a name for the reverse phenomenon? Where a real headline reflecting actual reality is so ridiculous that you reject it out of hand as satire only to realize it was genuine? Regurgitating the onion? What's the name for this?
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Is there a name for the reverse phenomenon?
the onion has eaten you, maybe
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The font was chosen in an effort to make documents easier to read for the vision impaired.
So It's Republican policy that the government must not, even in the smallest way, make life any easier for disabled people? And the government must not do nothing and leave in place something that already makes life easier for them, but must actively intervene to make it harder? Of course it is, but what the fuck is wrong with these people that they dedicate their entire life to getting into government so they can punch down and hurt others? How have they not even accidentally stumbled into being better than the worst they can be?
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Fascists always go after disabled people first because it’s harder for them to fight back and fascists are cowards.
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Surely if you want to kill disabled people, it's a good idea to start by making them feel shunned and their lives extremely difficult first, no?
That way, a lot of them die off, lose their power and voice in society, and are way easier to purge when the time comes!
You can't build a Christiofascist Oligarchy without obliterating a few societal eggs, after all!
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Its the culling of the herd. They feel they know best what the make up of the country should be. Its the same thing as eugenics. It makes sense if you think helping the disabled is a waste of resources.
How do you develop this point of view? How did people become convinced the h man was right? People are susceptible to propaganda. I heard the comments on popular sites about Taylor Swift being pro right after her last album was 25% astroturf. Heard from Phil Defranco on yt, there was a study.
Go look at the shit on truth social. I've met people that only look at the conservative part of the web, like fox news junkies of the last 25 years. They're radicalized by astroturf, then hide in these echo chambers. Most of the discourse is directed by people with vested interest in political outcomes.
People I was friendly with were trying to say Charlie Kirk would have been a good president when he died. He was such a kind and selfless Christian, they say. I cant find anything defendable in his media output, but once you're radicalized, its just about hitting the talking points. "Woke ideology." "Trans mind virus." "Communists and Socialists." "Empathy is bad for our coutry." Once you believe you're surrounded by enemies, its easy to be manipulated by fear.
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All future documents must be in Fraktur.
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its not even funny because the nazis actually abolished Fraktur for being jewish or something..without googling it..yeah, probably something about "being jewish" that used to be their go-to, cant be wrong
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I did Nazi that joke coming...
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I was expecting Comic Sans.
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legitimately can't imagine being this much of an obedient and brainless little bitch
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"Small government" but also lets waste money on dumb shit like this that doesn't matter.
Also wouldn't a serif font cost more in ink over the course of millions of documents printed? Those serifs might not take a lot of ink to add but they do add up.
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Ok Boomer
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Must be a slow day in the state department...
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fuck me what a sad bastard.
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What. An. Idiot.
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Marco Rubio apparently doesn't have enough shit to do at work.
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This is a distraction for the Pam Bondi memo
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I hope this gets incorporated in a College Humor font wars sketch...
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Fuck serif fonts. The point of writing is to communicate clearly. Not look pretty and fancy-pants IMO.
I hate cursive for the same reason. It's elitist trash script.
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I agree with you and think it's worthwhile to critically evaluate fonts.
So what happens if we evaluate cursive font? Well, for most people, loopy cursive is hard to read.
To understand why loopy cursive is problematic, here's an excerpt from two experts on handwriting:
Conventional looped cursive has not held up to modern life and is being abandoned by most adults, because
- Its decorative loops and excessive joins obscure visual cues,
- It loses legibility when written quickly,
- It doesn’t reflect the writing we see in type or on screen, and
- 100% joined writing is typically slower and no more legible than writing that joins most, but not all letters.
So loopy cursive sucks, but does that mean that we should straight up ditch cursive altogether? Are there fonts that are quick to write and legible? Turns out, those same experts built a handwriting system, the Getty-Dubay system. Their writing system does not seek to "look pretty and fancy-pants" (to quote you). Instead, their writing system tries to "communicate clearly" (to quote you again). They built something logical and pragmatic.
How can you be sure of what I'm saying? Well, you be the judge!
Here's a picture of the Getty-Dubay fonts, both print and cursive:
Here's a comparison of different cursive fonts:
If you want more information, here's a resource you can check out: https://handwritingsuccess.com/why-cursive/
So yeah, the way I see it, loopy cursive is hell, and italic-based cursive is the best of both worlds: italic-based cursive is fast to write and easy to read.
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This is cool! However, this comparison is unfair, as Getty-Dubay is the only one not using a variable thickness
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go monospace or go bust
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The point of cursive is to be able to write without picking up your pen as often. Some people make theirs fancy because not everyone’s a miserable bastard.
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If you're doing it for yourself, fine. If you're writing for me, don't waste my time by making me have to decipher your custom scribble that's never consistent with anyone else's, unlike normal print.
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Which is why we have serifs, so you can tell the difference between I and l.
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It also helps eye to follow the line and therefore makes reading easier. It is almost as if typographers came up with it for a reason.
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But that's a workaround, not a fix.
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“Not only am I tiny, so is my dick!”
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Uh-huh. Sure.
I'll get right on that, as soon as you can explain exactly how the singular genitive declension of the Latin word Dēus has literally any bearing whatsoever on office policies. -
I hope they make papyrus the official font
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MAGAts are so petty.
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Wait till he finds out about comic sans
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Imagine being so much snowflake that a simple font upsets you. Words fail.