Do you have dyslexia?
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2025 6:17 pm
The State Department would like you to fuck off:
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I remember when Biden's handlers fucked up the supply chain and prices of everything went up. They said it was a temporary thing and prices would go down. They never did. Now gas prices are way down (have you noticed that?), egg prices have come down (They went up because Biden's assholes decided they needed to kill millions of chickens. Did you post about that?), prices on most things are coming down and once again the democrat party is convincing their dumb masses that the sky is falling down, and it's all because of Trump. Where were you on posting Biden's senile utterings and his handlers stupid moves and policies every day?silverscreenselect wrote: ↑Thu Dec 11, 2025 9:57 amFood prices are up, the cost of medical care is about to skyrocket in three weeks, we're on the verge of possible war with Venezuela, and the government is concerned about what font to use in printed documents. That sums up Trump in a nutshell.
You do understand that there was a bird flu epidemic and that if they hadn't culled those chickens, even more would have died. Of course, like many Republicans, you have no idea how viruses and diseases work, whether on children or chickens.flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 11, 2025 10:42 am(They went up because Biden's assholes decided they needed to kill millions of chickens.)
Why has the rate of inflation gone up under Trump? And why are millions of Americans looking at their bank statements and grocery bills each week and realizing that it's getting tougher and tougher to stay afloat? Did Democrats somehow manipulate their bank balances to fool them into thinking they were in worse shape than they are?prices on most things are coming down and once again the democrat party is convincing their dumb masses that the sky is falling down, and it's all because of Trump.
My God. Pretty much everything you have called 'Twitter based misinformation' in the past has been shown to be true. When are you going to re-evaluate your beliefs?I could easily point by point deflate every silly bit of Twitter-based misinformation you regurgitate here
I heard that this granny has made quite a bit of money from the Christian GoFundMe - but not as much as that Cinnabon cunt (who has a rap sheet) who said all those awful things to the Somalis.
Calibri has been the font since when?silverscreenselect wrote: ↑Thu Dec 11, 2025 9:57 amFood prices are up, the cost of medical care is about to skyrocket in three weeks, we're on the verge of possible war with Venezuela, and the government is concerned about what font to use in printed documents. That sums up Trump in a nutshell.
It was changed to Calibri to make the text more readable for people with various visual impairments.BackInTex wrote: ↑Thu Dec 18, 2025 9:55 amCalibri has been the font since when?silverscreenselect wrote: ↑Thu Dec 11, 2025 9:57 amFood prices are up, the cost of medical care is about to skyrocket in three weeks, we're on the verge of possible war with Venezuela, and the government is concerned about what font to use in printed documents. That sums up Trump in a nutshell.
When was this change made because I don't recall there not being some more pressing crisis than the State Department's font use.
It's all politics and another reach by both parties to have something to complain about. But I especially like the paragraph in this article:elwoodblues wrote: ↑Thu Dec 18, 2025 12:50 pmIt was changed to Calibri to make the text more readable for people with various visual impairments.BackInTex wrote: ↑Thu Dec 18, 2025 9:55 amCalibri has been the font since when?silverscreenselect wrote: ↑Thu Dec 11, 2025 9:57 amFood prices are up, the cost of medical care is about to skyrocket in three weeks, we're on the verge of possible war with Venezuela, and the government is concerned about what font to use in printed documents. That sums up Trump in a nutshell.
When was this change made because I don't recall there not being some more pressing crisis than the State Department's font use.
It was changed back because accessibility is apparently woke or something.
This is what the MSM* has been doing for a long time now: (NO EVIDENCE). OK, where's their indisputable physical, reproducable evidence that it somehow helped those with disabilities? Where is their figure for how much it cost to move to Calibri in 2023? I guess, like always, we just have to take their word for it because their reporter just KNOWS, huh? Um, A LITTLE BIAS PERHAPS?“The switch was promised to mitigate accessibility issues for individuals with disabilities,” the cable said, asserting that it did not achieve that goal and had cost the department $145,000 but did not offer any evidence.
Calibri was developed by Microsoft in 2007 specifically to aid people with dyslexia. Since then, it has been the default font for Word. Back in 2007, there was no discussion anywhere about "wokeness" or "DEI." Microsoft developed the font and made it the default because their research determined documents typed in Calibri would be easier for most people to use, and their goal with Word was to create the most user-friendly product possible. So, from a purely practical standpoint, if you start typing a document in Word without monkeying around with font selections, you're using Calibri. If you want to switch to Times New Roman, you have to consciously make the time-consuming change on every document you type.flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 18, 2025 2:30 pmThis is what the MSM* has been doing for a long time now: (NO EVIDENCE). OK, where's their indisputable physical, reproducable evidence that it somehow helped those with disabilities?
Technology has progressed well beyond fonts. Fonts are only useful these days as a weapon to attack trump with. As is everything else.Ritterskoop wrote: ↑Mon Dec 22, 2025 7:56 pmSalt Lake City 2034 Olympics has a font problem, also. This story is a month old, so I apologize for those who have already heard about it. I'm not convinced the font choice is easier for folks with disabilities, but whatever my faults, a reading disability isn't one of them, so I can't say if it helps some folks or not.
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As for dyslexia, the little I know about it is that Temple Grandin recommends folks read black letters on paper that is not white, and she said especially helpful to some conditions is pastel paper: light blue, yellow, like that. Some brains struggle with the stark contrast of black on white.
Best wishes to everyone in our gradual journey toward including more people in conversations about more things.
No, if you'll recall, and I agree it's difficult when your mind is consumed by all those fraudulent votes you probably count every night to help you go to sleep, this entire mess started when the Secretary of State's office switched to a less-user-friendly font claiming that Calibri was woke and DEI.flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 22, 2025 9:10 pmTechnology has progressed well beyond fonts. Fonts are only useful these days as a weapon to attack trump with. As is everything else.
I do most of my reading nowadays on my Kindle, and you have a choice of eight different fonts, both serif and sans serif (I use a serif font), and four different page colors: white, black (with white letters), green and sepia. I use the green unless I'm trying to read in the movie theater waiting for the show to start, in which case I use white on black.Ritterskoop wrote: ↑Mon Dec 22, 2025 7:56 pmAs for dyslexia, the little I know about it is that Temple Grandin recommends folks read black letters on paper that is not white, and she said especially helpful to some conditions is pastel paper: light blue, yellow, like that. Some brains struggle with the stark contrast of black on white.
silverscreenselect wrote: ↑Mon Dec 22, 2025 10:43 pmNo, if you'll recall, and I agree it's difficult when your mind is consumed by all those fraudulent votes you probably count every night to help you go to sleep, this entire mess started when the Secretary of State's office switched to a less-user-friendly font claiming that Calibri was woke and DEI.flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 22, 2025 9:10 pmTechnology has progressed well beyond fonts. Fonts are only useful these days as a weapon to attack trump with. As is everything else.
There is no tangible evidence that Calibri is more user-friendly than any other font. It was a wasteful move by a worthless department that has been eliminated. But it now serves as another tool to swipe at trump for the indoctrinated TDS sufferers.Rubio’s memo, which had the subject line, "Return to Tradition: Times New Roman 14-Point Font Required for All Department Paper," argued that "Switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the degradation of the department’s official correspondence."
He added that it was a "wasteful" diversity move that failed to meet its goal of being more accessible.
The Times reported, "But Mr. Rubio called it a failure by its own standards, saying that ‘accessibility-based document remediation cases’ at the department had not declined."
Tell that to Microsoft. They commissioned the development of Calibri back in 2007. But of course, you don't read anything that the hundreds of sources have posted over the last two decades in favor of a random Twitter comment. Calibri reads better on computer screens, and it was developed by Microsoft fo that reason in 2007, well before any of this woke nonsense. And that's how most people read nowadays, especially in daily business correspondence, not printed books.flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 22, 2025 11:00 pmThere is no tangible evidence that Calibri is more user-friendly than any other font.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91458062/br ... -replacingCalibri and Times New Roman have been at war for years. And now the two fonts are once again pitted against each other after the U.S. State Department declared it will be swapping its current official typeface, Calibri, for Times New Roman. It’s a full-circle moment, considering the State Department ditched Times New Roman for Calibri in just 2023.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote that switching to Calibri was “wasteful” and “achieved nothing except the degradation of the department’s official correspondence” in an internal department memo obtained by Reuters and The New York Times. The type designer behind the sans-serif font Calibri calls Rubio’s decision “hilarious and regrettable.”
Lucas de Groot designed Calibri in 2007 specifically for readability on computer screens. The width and curvature of its simple letterform was optimized to be easy to read, and it replaced Times New Roman as the default font in Microsoft Office in 2007. In 2023, the State Department decided to replace Times New Roman with Calibri for all official communications and memos. It was a bid for greater accessibility throughout the organization. At the time, then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Times New Roman “can introduce accessibility issues for individuals with disabilities who use Optical Character Recognition technology or screen readers.”
“There were sound reasons for moving away from Times,” de Groot tells Fast Company in an email. “Calibri performs exceptionally well at small sizes and on standard office monitors, whereas serif fonts like Times New Roman tend to appear more distorted.” “Serif fonts are often perceived as more traditional, but they are also more demanding to use effectively,” says de Groot, noting that the spacing is noticeably inconsistent in all-capital-letter Times New Roman in words like “Chicago,” and the font appears too thin and sharp when printed at high quality.
“I think the idea that a typeface is woke is kind of ridiculous,” says type designer Jonathan Hoefler, who designed the Biden-Harris typography and is the co-creator of Gotham, a typeface that’s now been used by presidential candidates of both parties.Typefaces aren’t good or bad, Hoefler says. They are simply designed to solve different problems. Times New Roman was designed for newspaper text, and Calibri was designed for a screen.
I must admit I haven't. And truthfully, I don't care either way. But I believe the only reason this is an issue is because Trump is the president. End of story, over and out.But of course, you don't read anything that the hundreds of sources have posted over the last two decades in favor of a random Twitter comment
flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 23, 2025 8:42 amI must admit I haven't. And neither have you. Or anyone else that is complaining about it today. And truthfully, I don't care either way. But I believe the only reason this is an issue is because Trump is the president. End of story, over and out.But of course, you don't read anything that the hundreds of sources have posted over the last two decades in favor of a random Twitter comment