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Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

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386 points italophil | 2 comments | 10 Dec 25 00:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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xanderlewis ◴[10 Dec 25 22:34 UTC] No.46224911[source]▶
With no cost?
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1. youngNed ◴[10 Dec 25 23:15 UTC] No.46225387[source]▶
I hadn't planned on spending my evening googling the pay grade of government officials, calculating the time taken to change a font on Microsoft Word and extrapolating that over a year.

But I'm game if you are?

Jupyter notebooks or excel?

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2. xanderlewis ◴[11 Dec 25 13:52 UTC] No.46231350[source]▶
I'm not talking about monetary cost.