• @[email protected]
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      My HR manager is also 60 and routinely publishes the company newsletter as a .docx.

      Nothing is a given in this life.

      • @[email protected]
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        and routinely publishes the company newsletter as a .docx.

        This is good or bad?

        Using an easily editable format seems good. Microsoft though

        • @[email protected]
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          A) Why would a newsletter need to be editable?

          B) The vast majority of our staff access the newsletter via their phones, and will not care to install an app just so they can read it.

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

      • @[email protected]
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        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]
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    We’re fast approaching that golden age where every president comes standard with PDF creation skills.

    • @[email protected]
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      Not with their average ages creeping up. It’s the same generation of of people over and over.

    • @[email protected]
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      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:-).

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        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

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

  • @[email protected]
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    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]
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      Correct, since like Office 2007, it is literally a built in file format from the Save As menu.

    • @[email protected]
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      I believe the point is that deep in this digital age the only President that’s actually used a computer before was Obama (probably).

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      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]
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      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?

    • @leftzero
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      Roosevelt didn’t convert word documents to PDF. He edited the PDF directly, with a hex editor.

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

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

      • @[email protected]
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        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]
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            I mean… kinda (a hot one:-)?

            Edit: receipt:

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            Conclusion: nerds rule, conservatives drool 🤤!

            • @[email protected]
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              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]
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                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