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[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Guys Kamala is 60 and a career politician. I don't think this is a given.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (8 children)

My HR manager is also 60 and routinely publishes the company newsletter as a .docx.

Nothing is a given in this life.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Also the new intern might not be able to do this either. There's a surprisingly narrow age range where this skill set is expected

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah but the career politician part means that she hasn't had a job since McDonald's that didn't come with at least half a dozen underpaid assistants, so it's a fair assumption.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

She was also a lawyer early on in her career. I'm sure as an office gopher she handle plenty a PDF, printing, copying faxing and DOCX.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (4 children)

We're fast approaching that golden age where every president comes standard with PDF creation skills.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, mobile devices aren't "computers", and Gen-X gets ignored so hard it'll likely be skipped right over, and we'll jump immediately into Idiocracy (it's what plants crave).

Although I bet Pete Buttigieg knows how:-).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Harris' birthdate is October 20th 1964, she's pretty much Gen X, having had to deal with the 80s crap as a teenager/young adult, hell, 1965 is the first year for Gen X

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Usually the cusp of Gen-X is 1965, so even she is Boomer/Gen-X

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Douglas Copeland originally defined Gen X as starting ~1960. That tracks with Gen Jones - 1960-1964 - a boomer subset that had a very different experience from that of classic boomers. I have seen Obama described as a Gen X-er and he's older than I am.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Not with their average ages creeping up. It’s the same generation of of people over and over.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

they gotta dtop being 80 for that tho otherwise it'll take another 20 years or so

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Obama, Carter, and (somehow) Teddy Roosevelt

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For sure Obama could convert a Word doc no problem. Hell, ~~Cheney~~ Bush Jr. probably could've as well.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

With his youthful, tech-savvy vibe, many assumed that Barack Obama knew this stuff. But when pressed about how to convert file types, he responded, “What do I look like, some kinda fuckin’ nerd?” His honesty was refreshing. After all, converting a file shouldn’t be the president’s job. That is what interns are for. (Recent surveys show 90% of interns’ work hours are spent combining, condensing, and converting documents in a way that doesn’t crash the aging government servers.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He does not, in fact, look like some kinda fuckin’ nerd.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I mean... kinda (a hot one:-)?

Edit: receipt:

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Conclusion: nerds rule, conservatives drool 🤤!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wanna fight you for this statement.

but I have deadass nothing to fight you with

how dare you make me realize Obama is attractive >:( /hj

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's okay, you must still be recovering from that coma that you simply must have been in for 8 years to have missed this hot bod:

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Michelle forgives you though, bc she now has this hunk of man meat all to herself finally, and therefore so do I:-).

Also, we can be so easily distracted these days by...

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Wait, what were we talking about now? :-P

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

To be fair, Teddy only managed to convert to PDF by sheer gumption. No matter how many clippies he faced, he never gave up, never crashed his Word, and always disabled OneDrive before anything else.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Roosevelt didn't convert word documents to PDF. He edited the PDF directly, with a hex editor.

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[–] dch82 3 points 2 months ago

"Back in my day..."

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

I'm pretty sure you can just select pdf when saving the file in word.

Edit: lol wasn't really commenting on the politics of this post, just being pedantic about word processing software. Please don't read any political meaning into my statement lmao.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

One candidate is 78 years old, types in all-caps, and forgets what he was saying halfway through a sentence. For my money, I think it's a fair bet that the difference between a PDF and a native MS Word file eludes them.

On second thoughts...Come to think of it, a regular client of Epstein's teenage human trafficking ring probably know more about 'PDF files' (ahem) than most of us.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Right, but keep in mind how low the bar is for politicians. They have people for this.

Are we sure this isn't the first presidential election where a candidate even knows what a pdf is?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

And reminder: "save as PDF" is better for accessibility because it keeps tags and structural metadata. "Print as PDF" strips that and makes accessibility nerds sad. (This comment brought to you by me, a librarian/webadmin armpit-deep in updating several sites to meet the new ruling on digital accessibility for government websites in the US)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

“What’s word?”

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

But will she enable the option to create bookmarks from word headings? Surely no one ready for that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Next up: tables of data in CSV, then XML, and finally JSON formats, oh the humanity!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Oh dear lord... please save me from the monsters underneath my bed, and from ASN.1 everywhere it may invade.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unless we get one that can skibbidi the yeet instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No cap fr. Well, yolo fam, so y not?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Okay, but is America ready for a president who is a PDF file?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Give me somebody who uses markdown with pandoc and I'll be impressed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Or writes it directly in LaTeX.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Or they manually create their own typography engine using ed, the standard editor.

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[–] Dempf 2 points 2 months ago

I think you're looking for Emerald McS. et all, PhD.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Would definitely make a refreshing change

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think they even know how to use Word

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