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I do miss Rocky though.

One jumps to the "correlation without causation" conclusion before checking that the authors calculated out *every* possible confounding variable.

Correlation vs causation hilarity.

Would be interesting to cross reference autism rates to see if there’s a possible link there too.

The office ribbon is actually the cause of colony collapse

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I can only speak or myself, but I haven't had any children since the introduction of Windows 95. I realize that's anecdotal, but it strikes me as more than coincidence...

Who wants to bring a child into a world with such horrors?

Yup, I was checking the replies to make sure someone posted this link.

LOL

I chose to be unbabied and I use Microsoft!

Clippy was a creep.

Am I the only one who loathed the ribbon?

😂 😂 😂

Statistics don’t lie!🤣

Perhaps!

“Cause” versus “correlation” … cute!

😂

You are reminding me that I miss how pleasant W7 looked. What lovely UI.

You do make some extremely good points but I tend to think it was mostly due to Clippy

My man, asking americans to think about some place outside América is an imposible task.

Fair point. Japan is having the same crisis. Fewer people entering the workforce than retiring. So maybe having kids for farm labor and post WWII boom are in the rear view mirror.

Absolutely true

Depends whether your standard for "better" is "better at determining the actual reason" or "better for demonstrating how correlation is not causation".

@legacyupdate.net oh

legacy update what the fuck?

HIT TWEET

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... :)))))

(1) Calibri was created in 2006 but only became *widely available* in 2007 (2) i did not know until now but it was designed by a fucking Yakubian ape (a Dutchman)

The only thing Arial _might_ be preferable to is Comic Sans. And maybe Papyrus. Otherwise, no.

Damn Office 2007 looked so good 🥵

confounded only by my wife leaving me for clippy (too)

It's Clippy, not Snippy

sounds like Jim the mower.. right wing male fantasies...no consideration for the carrying capacity of the planet or inclination of women!

Calibri became the default font because woke.

🤣

Beat me to it!

☠️

🤣😂

Not the unsolicited help with starting a family. That's how you get Dijon.

a decade of furious masturbation came to a head

Clippy ain't take the blame for nothing and you finna let him walk free like that?

stupid sexy Clippy!

I haven't seen such a well executed joke in a HOT SECOND

huh

My girlfriend moved in with me in 2007, we went on to have a child in mid 2010 and late 2011. Which means I can correlate the conception of our kids with the recent release Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7...

I mean if this guy didn’t make you horny…

Well it makes as much sense as some of the other crap published on the subject.

YES! FUCK THE RIBBON, ALL MY HOMIES HATE THE RIBBON!

The best kind of data analysis.

Anything to not talk about the wealth gap being so immense people can't afford to live, let alone have children anymore.

Clippy's revenge after getting laid off

iPhone. Though I know this was likely a joke, I think the iPhone (and Smartphones and Social Media) truly are to blame.

Not at all surprising to anyone who has had to endure Office. Such a senseless waste of human life.

Look, Pavarotti died in 2007. You needn't look further than that

LOL

I will also not be making any more human races.

Getting twins as easy as typing Baby_1, double clicking the paintbrush icon and copying to Baby_2.

All part of Bill Gates's master plan for human extinction. Covid vax, implanted microchips, 5G, Office Ribbon.

But that was only Word users. Those using the rest of the Office suite are not effected.

Well, I've had 100% more kids since Office 2007 came out than I had before (to be honest my kids post-date Office 2016), so therefore by the virtue of pointless personal anecdote Office until 2022 makes children more likely.

Probably, you try to use the ribbon and then conclude that it’s no longer worth bringing new souls into this life

but in this obvious case I am not so sure ....

Ain't it funny how they wrote a whole paper and still confused about causality.

Absolutely

100% - has to be it !!

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/u...

Correlation causes Causation, as emphatically proven on The Simpsons. Or, as David Hume would say, and say many times in A Treatise of Human Nature, “Betwixt.”

Plastics.. it’s because of plastic in everything we are having less children. Most of us have plastics in our brain.

I forgot about this glass look. Pretty iconic.

Did the fertility rate drop more for users getting their Microsoft Office Ribbon from AT&T than from other carriers?

It started earlier as people keep f**king with Microsoft® Losedows™ rather than – well – other people for decades now. But Microsoft® Office™ Ribbon only accelerated the process... ;-)

Ribbon UI as birth control. Needs peer review.

Its probably because less people use desktop computers. And most user interfaces are now trending away from ribbons to flat taskbars. Oh and don’t forget everything is expensive now.

Umm, that's when the iPhone came out, a more likely development. Correlation is not causation.

the Ribbon is so sexy, it's distracting...

Oh well said!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

The ribbon is one of man's greatest ever evils. #FACT

Tee hee.

May I recommend the church of the flying spaghetti monster, which notes that the decline in pirates is responsible for global warming

During the same period there was an increase in people using Google docs. So that's probably the cause

Gotta use dark mode.

True story

Gotta love the correlations people (or propaganda?) come up with. 🤣🤣🤣

I do really hate the ribbon.

I was born thst year, coincidence?

Caused a seismic increase in frustration brought home from work, for sure.

***looks at you*** This brings joy ***follows***

No

Considering this is still going scarily viral I’m just gonna do the thing. Spend a bit of the money you saved by not having any kids on a worthy cause, the Internet Archive, who preserve our increasingly chaotic digital world for future generations. archive.org/donate

If your significant other spends 3 paychecks on it, then maybe 🤣

Paid for by war profitters at Google’s munitions factory? Or Oracle’s IDF supplier?

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School: The more educated the woman are less babies. Every time that give women an education the birth rate drops.