Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI

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.

Fascists always go after disabled people first because it’s harder for them to fight back and fascists are cowards.

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!

Gotta hurt. Thats the policy.

Most of them are published as they were written, so they aren't affected by the government's preferred font.

They've never been for small government. This lie needs to be called out every single time.

Times New Roman is disgusting

They should ban toilet paper, it's too woke.

Nah, should be Papyrus, it pretends it's a return to tradition but it's really just ugly and racist.

Times New Roman is precisely what Trump admin wants. You know, since the far right has a hard on on the Roman empire.

Don’t forget there also fucks kids and they are protecting him.

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.

At the same time it's reminiscent of "caliber", which one would expect to appeal to good Christians.

spoken like a Gill Sans user

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.

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.

"Adolf Hitler bans Gothic font from Nazi publications for being too Jewish"

Man, I fucking hate how much history rhymes

This is a distraction for the Pam Bondi memo

Is there a name for the reverse phenomenon?

the onion has eaten you, maybe

!nottheonion@lemmy.world

Inspired by the analogous subreddit.

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

I did Nazi that joke coming...

he should use Comic Sans.

Unfortunately, it's proprietary licensed. I was wondering if there was an opportunity for protest use, but that's difficult with restricted licenses.

Trust that these people would 100% be removing the curb cuts from every sidewalk if they thought they could get away with it.

Let's be reasonable about this! What more things are DEI? Let's try to find something that is actually DEI to the core and ban it.

Something that makes it harder for the established upper dog to dominate. Something that gives the little player a better chance!

Yes I know it! Tarrifs! Tarrifs are DEI, now we got to ban tarrifs!!!!

It is the traditional font of scammers and grifters. Comic Sans is perfect for Rubio.

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.

Which is why we have serifs, so you can tell the difference between I and l.

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.

go monospace or go bust