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Is America Ready for a President Who Can Convert a Word Document to a PDF? (thehardtimes.net)

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[-] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 30 points 20 hours ago

Obama, Carter, and (somehow) Teddy Roosevelt

[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 5 hours ago

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

[-] dch82@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

"Back in my day..."

[-] sfbing@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

"Bully!"

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours 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.

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 10 points 19 hours ago

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

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 24 points 19 hours ago

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.)