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i think alot about how funny it is how many dyslexic people use comic sans or opendyslexic because it makes reading easier for them, but whenever this is brought up the news article or video creator almost compusively says "but there's no high quality clinical evidence that these fonts *actually* help"

like. okay. who actually cares. the fact that it makes reading easier for some dyslexic ppl is already proven by the fonts popularity. not every little thing needs scientists to swoop in to Verify. if it doesn't work for everyone that's fine. just TRY STUFF and see if it works FOR YOU.

our society's media WORSHIPS the scientific method and peer review as the only legitimate way to Know something which drives me up a wall, especially when these same journalists often don't even UNDERSTAND science and they turn around and are like "a new study has demonstrated that eating eggs makes you lonely".

#there's no high quality clinical evidence that going to a rave makes you feel happy #someone needs to do a double blind study where they send participants to either a rave or a fake rave #just to make sure that dancing and listening to music actually works

phantasmagoria of animegirl view @lookatthesky12/29/2023, 4:49 PM

sometimes you can Just Believe People

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Keiya the Cyber-Kitty @keiya12/29/2023, 5:30 PM

I mean, I wanna see a high quality study but that's because I'm curious the extent to which it actually helps and how many people it helps. It has effectively zero cost and risk so if someone wants to try it for themselves go ahead.

www.coolstation.space @warc12/29/2023, 5:56 PM

By the way you can slap

<div style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', 'Comic Sans', cursive; "> 
(YOUR WRITING GOES HERE)
</div>

around these posts for instant comicsans on most browsers

squircular reasoning @spiders12/29/2023, 6:11 PM

because you provided it to me i will do it on this post but in general i dont do it even tho i wish all my posts could be in comic sans because typing posts is either exhaustion by way of dictation or rsi flareup and in either case adding yet more stupid technical bullshit to exhaust and harm me to every post sucks

i wish there were a cohost plus feature that like lets you set a boilerplate for your thingy

(but also doesn't div tags disable markdown inside the tags

www.coolstation.space @warc12/29/2023, 6:35 PM

Yeah its far from perfect or even "good" as far as solutions go.
I tend to keep copies of these kind of boilerplate wrappers in the clipboard of my phone for when i'm trying to chost on the go but even then I always forget they're there.

Thats one of the features I like most about ACMLM forum software, they actually give you boilerplate headers and footers where you can put div tags like that.

anyway I don't think it totally disables markdown, it should still work as long as the MD statements are on their own lines? Not 100% on this.

Ryan @fools-pyrite12/29/2023, 7:35 PM

fwiw on mobile safari this results in a default-looking Serif font, like a Times New Roman kinda deal

eevee @lexyeevee12/30/2023, 1:24 AM

wait is this about dyslexic people trying the fonts, or non-dyslexic people putting the fonts in stuff for dyslexic people

squircular reasoning @spiders12/30/2023, 7:32 PM

mostly its about dyslexic people saying they (individually) like the fonts and they help them read, and then people making Internet Content being like "dyslexic people SAY they like the fonts but there's no evidence it actually helps them" or dismissing their VERY REAL experience of the font helping them read as "anecdotal evidence"

eevee @lexyeevee12/30/2023, 8:18 PM

ah okay well that is a pretty weird thing to do

i'm not dyslexic so my first thought was like, adding a font to a text-heavy thing i make. i would hesitate to go "here's an accessibility feature for everyone, based on i saw 1 person say it helped them"

aria!@aurelium12/30/2023, 3:52 AM

is there any high-quality clinical evidence that Times New Roman is bad for coding