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[–] SkavarSharraddas@gehirneimer.de 13 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

The real reason may be that they want to make it harder for their forged documents to be discovered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibri#In_crime_and_politics

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 10 points 20 hours ago

It's not. It's that TNR was the standard for some swirling "back then" time frame and switching to the MS Office default font happened under Biden. It's literally because they looked at a list of changes under Biden, labeled them all "woke" and only have so many staff hours a day to "unwoke" everything.

[–] VeganBtw@piefed.social 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

This makes the most sense to me.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

That’s a sensible reason but these people appear to be just that stupid and petty.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Well that was a fascinating and hilarious read. Thanks for posting that!

That said, 2006 was a long time ago now, I think that kind of issue with the calibri font in particular is going to become less and less relevant.