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      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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      My HR manager is also 60 and routinely publishes the company newsletter as a .docx.

      Nothing is a given in this life.

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        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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        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

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

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      A generation or two ahead and it’ll be hard for presidents to operate the holographic interface/brain interface and find typical functions.

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      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:-).

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        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

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          Douglas Copeland originally defined Gen X as starting ~1960. That tracks with Gen Jones - 1960-1964 - a boomer subset that had a very different experience from that of classic boomers. I have seen Obama described as a Gen X-er and he’s older than I am.

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

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      they gotta dtop being 80 for that tho otherwise it’ll take another 20 years or so

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      It’s like the principal in my school hitting return many times to get to the next page.

      I did an office IT course which was next level: making sections which enable you to change every bit of the page format without altering other sections.

      At the time it didn’t seem to matter but that course was instrumental in saving so much time and hassle.

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      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.

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

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        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.)

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                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