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

submitted 8 months ago by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Obama, Carter, and (somehow) Teddy Roosevelt

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 11 points 8 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 26 points 8 months 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.)

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 10 points 8 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 8 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 8 months ago

"Bully!"

[–] dch82@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago

"Back in my day..."