Do you have dyslexia?

[Weyoun]

The State Department would like you to fuck off:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rubio-ord ... -order.amp

[Beebs52]

Dumbest waste of time forever

[silverscreenselect]

Food 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.

[flockofseagulls104]

Food 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.

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?

Health care costs are going up BECAUSE of obamacare. Exactly what was predicted when NOT ONE republican voted for it. What your party wants is more money we don't have to prop it up.

Where were you when Biden changed the fonts in the first place? Did you throw a hissy fit then?

[silverscreenselect]

(They went up because Biden's assholes decided they needed to kill millions of chickens.)

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.

I could easily point by point deflate every silly bit of Twitter-based misinformation you regurgitate here, but I've got other things to do. I'll settle for one more:

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.

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?

[Weyoun]

IIRC the supply chain got fucked up during Covid, and that was in 2020, which was Trump.

It’s really odd how Trumpers forget that Trump was president in 2000

[flockofseagulls104]

I could easily point by point deflate every silly bit of Twitter-based misinformation you regurgitate here

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?

Just off the top of my head:
-Hunter Biden's Laptop. 51 biased swamp 'experts' swaying the election.
-Non-Effectiveness of covid vaccines
-Arctic Frost. Trump was spied on and lawfare was planned and coordinated by the feds
-There was never any Russian Collusion
-Fani Willis' bullshit prosecutions
-Biden's mental condition
-Which party caused the recent government shutdown?
-Fulton County's fraudulent and illegal election processes in 2020 (and probably in 2022) (see last GA SEB meeting. You won't see it reported in the Urinal Constipation. The AJC 'journalist' was doing his best to not pay attention during the most important case of the day)

Why do you put so much faith in sources that have so blatantly lied to you so often?

[flockofseagulls104]

Here's more lies that they've been telling you finally falling apart.

This case has been being withheld from the State Election Board since 2022 by our wonderful SOS office. Now that the RINO who was appointed chairman of the SEB has decided to hide somewhere because he was caught red-handed in sabotaging another very important case, the SEB is finally getting to see and prioritize the cases that it hears.

As I have told you ad infinitum, there are REAMS of evidence of at least malfeasance and most likely outright fraud in the 2020 Fulton County election results. It is only through legal finagling and behind the scenes sabotage that this evidence is allowed to be ignored. This case, which the Fulton County Attorney did not dispute and admitted to, has been referred to the AG (who is a Kemp puppet and will probably not do anything) with the recommendation of a $5000 fine for each occurence, which comes to $670,000 for you lucky people in Fulton County. It will come out of your taxes. But it has also been referred to the DOJ. I pray they do something about this travesty and for God's sake, at long last hold SOMEONE accountable.

[Weyoun]

To attempt to add to the discussion, I do think it shows a particular dynamic in the country right now

Liberals do like to talk about how great they are, doing things like changing the font so people with reading disorders can read better. Such a change would cost money. But also, more people can read these statements.

MAGA shitheads, otoh, make these changes “to own the libs” - nothing more, nothing less. It’s the same dynamic with deadnaming Rachel Levine.

If I had to be stuck with one of these two groups, I know with which group I would rather be.

[flockofseagulls104]

Weyoun's nurse.

[Weyoun]

Weyoun's nurse.

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.

Just goes to show: being a bigot is awfully popular and awfully profitable among the MAGAcretin crowd.

[BackInTex]

Food 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.

Calibri has been the font since when?

When was this change made because I don't recall there not being some more pressing crisis than the State Department's font use.

[elwoodblues]

Food 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.

Calibri has been the font since when?

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 to Calibri to make the text more readable for people with various visual impairments.

It was changed back because accessibility is apparently woke or something.

[flockofseagulls104]

Food 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.

Calibri has been the font since when?

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 to Calibri to make the text more readable for people with various visual impairments.

It was changed back because accessibility is apparently woke or something.

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:

“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.

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?

*

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[silverscreenselect]

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?

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.

Using readily available resources, I can't find any scientific or medical evidence that Calibri is a superior font. I am sure that our resident M.D. can find such evidence easier than I can. However, I have found literally dozens of websites that list various dyslexia-friendly typefaces, and Calibri always appears. Several of those websites cater to persons with disabilities.

I personally use Times New Roman for my drafts because I'm the only one reading them, even if I have to make the switch. My emails are all in Arial, as I've made that my default email font. I use a large enough default font size so people won't have trouble reading my emails. (If you send emails over the phone, which I don't, they appear in Calibri unless you make a change.). This Bored uses a sans serif font both to type in messages and to read them. When I set up my website, I used a font called Droid Sans because it seemed to look better and cleaner to me and I wanted something people could read easily, even on a smartphone. The State Department's official website uses a Serif font for headlines and a sans serif font for subheads and body text. So does www.whitehouse.gov (they appear to be the same fonts as the SOS website).

So unless you feel that Trump and Rubio are being woke, the use of Calibri and similar sans serif fonts on government websites and elsewhere would appear to be a matter of maximum readability instead of some vague DEI nonsense.

[flockofseagulls104]

Weyoun's nurse.

The lady weyoun's nurse harassed.

[Ritterskoop]

Salt 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.

https://www.sltrib.com/sports/2025/11/2 ... -out-2034/

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.

[Beebs52]

You realize you're debating fucking fonts. Help us.

[flockofseagulls104]

Salt 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.

https://www.sltrib.com/sports/2025/11/2 ... -out-2034/

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.

Technology has progressed well beyond fonts. Fonts are only useful these days as a weapon to attack trump with. As is everything else.

[silverscreenselect]

Technology has progressed well beyond fonts. Fonts are only useful these days as a weapon to attack trump with. As is everything else.

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.

[silverscreenselect]

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.

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.

[flockofseagulls104]

Technology has progressed well beyond fonts. Fonts are only useful these days as a weapon to attack trump with. As is everything else.

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.

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."

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.

[silverscreenselect]

There is no tangible evidence that Calibri is more user-friendly than any other font.

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.

Calibri 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.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91458062/br ... -replacing

Ironically, Microsoft has moved on since the State Department adopted Calibri, but not back to Times New Roman. They've since adopted another newly developed font called Aptos, which is another sans serif font. Unfortunately, Aptos doesn't work with all reading apps currently.

Flock, if you don't want to use a woke font, you might have to quit using this forum. It's a sans serif font. So is your default email. So is the mcdonalds.com website, where you and your buddy order lunch when you don't want to stand in line in full combat gear. So is whitehouse.gov, where your hero spews forth all his official correspondence. So is Truth Social, where your hero lets people know his candid opinions about Rob Reiner. And so is Twitter, where you get all your "expert" evidence from. In fact, you can't change the typeface on Twitter through any adjustments that are available on the Twitter website itself. (There are third party app hacks that do it, but you'd have to download one for that exact purpose.)

So, the whole world is woke. You might have to swear off using your computer and go back to reading printed copies of the Atlanta Journal. Except you won't be able to do that after next week.

[flockofseagulls104]

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

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.

[flockofseagulls104]

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

I 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.