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[–] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 66 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 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.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 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

[–] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 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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[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 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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[–] bazus1@lemmy.world 62 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 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:-).

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 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

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago

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

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[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

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

[–] blibla@slrpnk.net 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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[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Obama, Carter, and (somehow) Teddy Roosevelt

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 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.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 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.)

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 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 🤤!

[–] Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.world 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

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 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

[–] Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 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.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] sfbing@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago
[–] dch82@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

"Back in my day..."

[–] Lizardking27@lemmy.world 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.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 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.

[–] dwemthy@lemdro.id 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?

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 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)

[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

“What’s word?”

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[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 17 points 2 months ago

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

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] YerbaYerba@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 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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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unless we get one that can skibbidi the yeet instead.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] atheridis@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] leadore@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Or writes it directly in LaTeX.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

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

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[–] Dempf@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Would definitely make a refreshing change

[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago
[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 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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