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Calibri was supposedly easier to read by people with disabilities. While this itself is debatable, that's not the reasoning behind the font switch. The mere att
by praptak 10mo ago
Calibri was supposedly easier to read by people with disabilities. While this itself is debatable, that's not the reasoning behind the font switch. The mere attempt at making life easier for disadvantaged people is labeled DEI and as such cannot be tolerated by this administration.
- midnitewarrior 10mo agoI don't think that much thought went into it. The change was initiated by the department's DEIA ("A" for Accessibility) office. Anything that office did was a priority for this administration. Keep in mind that the transgenic mouse breeding program used to make lab mice for research got defined because the President claimed Democrats were so woke they were funding "trans" mice research. Half of what they are doing is virtue signalling and posturing without any real understanding of what they are doing.
- OhioMan2943 10mo agoI listened to the economist podcast on that- hilarious in the worst way- was leading harvard research
- kgwgk 10mo agoThe funny thing is that they were indeed funding “trans” mice research: > To understand the effects of feminizing sex hormone therapy on vaccination, we propose to develop a mouse model of gender-affirming hormone therapy, assess its relevance to human medicine through singe-cell transcriptome studies, and test the immune responses of “cis” vs. “trans” mice to a HIV vaccine. https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10849830#description https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10849830#descriptio...
- nxor 10mo ago[flagged]
- vkou 10mo agoMore than half. Almost everything they do is virtue signaling.
- rdiddly 10mo agoAll true except the fact that it's not virtue that they're signaling.
- tstrimple 10mo agoVirtue signaling is for liberals. Conservatives prefer shitty human signaling. Eventually folks will take them for their word I hope.
- ndsipa_pomu 10mo agoCruelty signalling?
- oneeyedpigeon 10mo agoI prefer "ideology signalling" so that it's neutral and we can use it to apply to both sides.
- watwut 10mo agoI prefer cruelty signaling, because there is profound difference between the impact of the two on the world. Insisting on naming things so that "bad thing" and "good thing" are undistinguishable is not neutral, it is biased and favors bad actors.
- nxor 10mo ago[flagged]
- ndsipa_pomu 10mo agoCan you be specific about when this has happened?
- watwut 10mo ago1.) Overwhelming majority of political violence is by right wing. 2.) About Kirk specifically, liberals signaled "murder is bad" hard and frequently. Meanwhile Kirk himself signaled hatred. 3.) Meanwhile, Trump, Vance and Hegseth are constantly signaling "murder is good actually, if we are doing it" and "bullying is manly thing to do". And that is exactly why it is userful to distinguish between "good thing signal" and "bad thing signal". ----------- Conservatives have the option to signal good things. They make different choice.
- OhioMan2943 10mo agoNope- times new roman just looks better.
- logifail 10mo ago> Calibri was supposedly easier to read by people with disabilities I'd love to know how that was determined. Given that: "If different fonts are best for different people, you might imagine that the solution to the fonts problem would be a preference setting to allow each user to select the font that’s best for them. This solution will not work, for two reasons. First, previous research on user-interface customization has found that most users don’t use preference settings, but simply make do with the default. Second, and worse, users don’t know what’s best for them, so they can’t choose the best font, even if they were given the option to customize their fonts. In this study, participants read 14% faster in their fastest font (314 WPM, on average) compared to their most preferred font (275 WPM, on average)" https://www.nngroup.com/articles/best-font-for-online-reading/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/best-font-for-online-readin...
- userbinator 10mo agoIn this study, participants read 14% faster in their fastest font (314 WPM, on average) compared to their most preferred font (275 WPM, on average)" That may be a case of "I hate reading this font so much I don't want to do more than skim over the text."
- dragonwriter 10mo ago> Second, and worse, users don’t know what’s best for them, so they can’t choose the best font, even if they were given the option to customize their fonts. In this study, participants read 14% faster in their fastest font (314 WPM, on average) compared to their most preferred font (275 WPM, on average)" What you actually want to compare speed in the most preferred font to, to show that individual choice is or is not better than one-size-fits-all dictate, is speed in the font that would be chosen as the universal choice by whichever mechanism would be used (to show it is universally better, show that there is no universal font choice that would lead to the average user being faster than with their preferred font.) All comparing each individual's preferred font to each individual's fastest is showing that an individualized test-based optimized font choice is better for reading speed than individual preference font choice, which I guess is interesting if you are committed to individualized choices, but not if the entire question is whether individual or centralized choices are superior.
- unsupp0rted 10mo agoMore charitably, the signaling could be: “keep the government as small as possible, but no smaller than that”, i.e. use things that basically mostly work and quit expending resources addressing every edge case, particularly when it’s performative (slight font variations) rather than obvious (a ramp to get into a public building)
- oblio 10mo agoMicrosoft Office (and Windows) changed the default font more than a decade ago. Changing it back is the exact definition of performative work. Edit: 19 years ago. Almost 2 decades ago!
- throwawaypath 10mo ago>Microsoft Office (and Windows) changed the default font more than a decade ago. You're behind. They've since changed it again. Calibri is no longer the default for Microsoft Office, it's now Aptos. That change was a few years ago.
- oblio 10mo agoI just saw when googling Calibri. But even Microsoft didn't switch it back to Times New Roman :-)
- throwawaypath 10mo ago>But even Microsoft didn't switch it back to Times New Roman :-) More proof that the government chose correctly.
- Propelloni 10mo agoThat's very charitable--especially considering that leaving the font alone in the first place would have been the smaller option. And don't get me started about the current meddling of the executive in my private life? I haven't had a more intrusive administration since living in Singapore.
- beowulfey 10mo agoI would have thought the change to Calibri was simply because office uses it as the default font now
- behnamoh 10mo agoIt was the default, now it's Aptos.
- journal 10mo agoby that logic if we help them see why don't we help them understand as well?