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I have never in my life tied a font to politics or morality.
π¬ππ πππ ππππ πππππ ππππ?
Tis not the font but the fonter.
spoken like a Gill Sans user
Garamond does look somewhat Apple-ishly pretentious, and Lucida does evoke associations with Sun and some corporate spirit, and Arial\TNR\CN trio does feel like "Windows font classic" combination.
But banning a more readable font to show you have "decorum" ... there's a word "ΡΠΌΠΎΡΠ½ΠΈΠΊ" in Russian, I've recently realized I'm that, and also a whole crowd of adults and peers around me 13 years ago. Actually there's just one girl who wasn't that, and one adult. Who got the shortest straws in that story.
That word means someone miserable and envious enough to look for confirmations and signs of coolness in all things they use and do.
I've also recently realized that I don't like computer people, and of other professions dealing with calculation and materiel. They are glorified bookkeepers and managers. The reason tech workers dislike management so much is because the whole industry is much like machine-assisted management. Paradox of small differences.
Yeah, I know you lot like being perceived as magicians and the industry as having something to do with intelligence. Read de Saint-Exupery's Citadel, there's a passage on "a special book for generals", and you will recognize that whole industry, from its lowly brick layers to its prophets.
ΡΠΌΠΎΡΠ½ΠΈΠΊ (rude, derogatory) schmuck, stooge, sleazeball, jerk (contemptible person)
So yeah I agree.
About me? Well, I don't object, as I've just said. Perhaps I'm just tired of computers. I like them as tools. But I don't worship wooden planks or vinyl panels or concrete from which houses are built.
That rudeness was in self-critique anyway.
If that helps, Tolkien's "Leaf by Niggle" I prefer much to "Citadel". But it's not matter of preference, I can't hide from what that book says.
Or if that's about Rubio, I don't think anyone doubted.