Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI
Submitted 3 days ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
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oftenawake@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Adolf Hitler bans Gothic font from Nazi publications for being too Jewish”
Man, I fucking hate how much history rhymes
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Time is a flat circle that only consists of about 100 years.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Were the Epstein files too legible?
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Most of them are published as they were written, so they aren’t affected by the government’s preferred font.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 days ago
just watch them start publishing in wingdings
Bosht@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So this is 100 percent true, verifiable, by me. Just keep in mind this is the same admin that wanted to cut ‘frivolous spending’. Think for a minute the wasted development hours changing the font on every webpage on every portal that DoS uses. Seriously, it’s fucking stupid.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Reminder that Donald J. Trump fucks children and there is proof of this that they are trying to distract us from.
STAY ON POINT.
spongebue@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ok Boomer
billwashere@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This has got to be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.
Tryenjer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
He should ban toilet paper, it’s too woke.
Kakertratte@feddit.org 1 day ago
TP is gay as fuck. Rubbing your own ass is sin. Didnt you know? On reddit there were a couple of posts about redneck guys not wiping their own shitty ass, as it is gay to touch anus or anus be touched. The brainrot is frightening, yet fascinating with this sample group of institutionalised uneducation, xenophobia, egoism and patriachal focused propaganda.
teft@piefed.social 3 days ago
“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.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
They’ve never been for small government. This lie needs to be called out every single time.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“small government” is just a dog whistle for “lower rich people taxes”.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 days ago
The government AND the national debt ALWAYS grow under Republicans.
switcheroo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oh they found that the font was helping someone. Can’t have that.
These people are such fucking trash…
NutWrench@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So just how gay CAN the Calibri font make you? Merely fabulous? Or are we talking about midriff-baring T-shirt and nut-hugger shorts gay?
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have never in my life tied a font to politics or morality.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Garamond does look somewhat Apple-ishly pretentious, and Lucida does evoke associations with Sun and some corporate spirit, and Arial\TNR\CN trio does feel like “Windows font classic” combination.
But banning a more readable font to show you have “decorum” … there’s a word “чмошник” in Russian, I’ve recently realized I’m that, and also a whole crowd of adults and peers around me 13 years ago. Actually there’s just one girl who wasn’t that, and one adult. Who got the shortest straws in that story.
That word means someone miserable and envious enough to look for confirmations and signs of coolness in all things they use and do.
I’ve also recently realized that I don’t like computer people, and of other professions dealing with calculation and materiel. They are glorified bookkeepers and managers. The reason tech workers dislike management so much is because the whole industry is much like machine-assisted management. Paradox of small differences.
Yeah, I know you lot like being perceived as magicians and the industry as having something to do with intelligence. Read de Saint-Exupery’s Citadel, there’s a passage on “a special book for generals”, and you will recognize that whole industry, from its lowly brick layers to its prophets.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
чмошник (rude, derogatory) schmuck, stooge, sleazeball, jerk (contemptible person)
So yeah I agree.
pyre@lemmy.world 1 day ago
spoken like a Gill Sans user
oftenawake@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
𝕬𝖗𝖊 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖘𝖚𝖗𝖊 𝖆𝖇𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙?
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Tis not the font but the fonter.
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Imagine being so much snowflake that a simple font upsets you. Words fail.
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
We are a Wingdings nation!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 days ago
i mean you can’t spell calibri without lib. where’s your god now, atheists?
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
At the same time it’s reminiscent of “caliber”, which one would expect to appeal to good Christians.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 days ago
its a nice distraction of whats going in with the epstein files, and immigration.
taiyang@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.
Damage@feddit.it 2 days ago
Times New Roman is disgusting
stretch2m@infosec.pub 2 days ago
It pisses me off when creative writing contests require this font in their submissions. It’s probably the ugliest of the common fonts. Why anyone would want to read it is beyond me.
oftenawake@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Rubio’s memo has designated Times New Roman as his tenure’s official font, stating it will “restore decorum and professionalism” to documents.
Bro it’s going to take more than a font change!
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 1 day ago
He wanted to make it Times Neo Nazi but was informed that didn’t exist
(please no one check or inform me if that’s actually a thing or even close to real)
devedeset@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
The font was chosen in an effort to make documents easier to read for the vision impaired.
This is like removing the requirement of having curb ramps on new sidewalks because it makes it possible for people in wheelchairs to navigate
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Trust that these people would 100% be doing that if they thought they could get away with it.
Narauko@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s good to see the papyrus guy bounced back and became Secretary of State
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Times New Roman is wayyyy too classy for Trump Administration. They should switch to Comic Sans MS.
…Oh no, I’m re-heating font jokes that people older than me found funny decades ago. What has this present political climate reduced us to?
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Nah, should be Papyrus, it pretends it’s a return to tradition but it’s really just ugly and racist.
bampop@lemmy.world 2 days ago
OK I love that fonts stir up such strong feelings in people… but racist? How tf is a font racist?
kill_dash_nine@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
It’s tribal yet futuristic
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Papyrus, are you kidding me? There’s no place in a professional office setting!
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
WEBDINGS!
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Times New Roman is precisely what Trump admin wants. You know, since the far right has a hard on on the Roman empire.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 days ago
i wouldn’t argue with comic sans personally. i hear it’s a good font for some types of dyslexia. i’d rather have more people be able to read it than look dignified.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There are other even more dyslexic-legible fonts that IMO look better
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Don’t forget there also fucks kids and they are protecting him.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
That’s it, were only going to use comic Sans serif from now on!
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
More distractions
cenzorrll@piefed.ca 2 days ago
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.
mirshafie@europe.pub 2 days ago
Nah man I can actually get on board with this. I used to hate Times New Roman but it’s streets ahead of the scourge that is Calibri, and with modern monitors serif fonts look fine.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The problem isn’t the font itself, it’s the fact that they’re being reactionary.
My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Must be a slow day in the state department…
Bwaz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What. An. Idiot.
ceenote@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Marco Rubio apparently doesn’t have enough shit to do at work.
0ndead@infosec.pub 2 days ago
This is a distraction for the Pam Bondi memo
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
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?
demonsword@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Is there a name for the reverse phenomenon?
the onion has eaten you, maybe
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
!nottheonion@lemmy.world
Inspired by the analogous subreddit.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
What a weird flex
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Just when you think you’ve heard all the ridiculous shit out there, this guy goes and proves you wrong.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
So It’s Republican policy that the government must not, even in the smallest way, make life any easier for disabled people? Of course.
lectricleopard@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.
athatet@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Fascists always go after disabled people first because it’s harder for them to fight back and fascists are cowards.
obinice@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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!