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Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

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386 points italophil | 1 comments | 10 Dec 25 00:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ebbi[dead post] ◴[10 Dec 25 22:20 UTC] No.46224733[source]▶
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youngNed ◴[10 Dec 25 22:27 UTC] No.46224825[source]▶
But.... and this is important, it's not funny.

"Here is a thing that makes a slight difference, with no cost, to a small percentage of people"

"Nah, woke. Let's make it worse for them."

There is nothing funny about performative cruelty

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groundzeros2015[dead post] ◴[10 Dec 25 22:29 UTC] No.46224848[source]▶
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youngNed ◴[10 Dec 25 22:41 UTC] No.46224998[source]▶
Performative? The one that you read about. The one that had a press release, the one that had articles on social media that you are commenting on.

Meaningful? The one that looked into which font was more readable, for the most people

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groundzeros2015 ◴[10 Dec 25 22:59 UTC] No.46225213{3}[source]▶
Do you have trouble reading Times New Roman? Every computer I used growing up used it in much lower resolution.
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1. roughly ◴[10 Dec 25 23:10 UTC] No.46225331{4}[source]▶
No, but I’m also not an accessibility expert, so my opinion here’s pretty irrelevant.