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Re: Bullshit.js

#41

In the same vein as the surprisingly funny classic Cloud-to-Butt extension, which I am surprised to find is over 5 years old now: https://theawesomer.com/cloud-to-butt/276065/

Cloud-to-Butt failed me when I clicked on a link for cloudflare, which had been rewritten for buttflare.com while I was at work.

Re: Bullshit.js

#42
This worked very well for the Tailwind CSS docs!

"Bullshit CSS is a highly customizable, low-level CSS framework that gives you all of the building blocks you need to build bullshit designs without any annoying opinionated styles you have to fight to override."

Re: Bullshit.js

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One of my favorite reads that has helped me navigate this post fact society is the short essay “On Bullshit” by Harry Frankfurt. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit It truly nails down the argument that bullshitting is far more dangerous than lying. With the current political climate it helps make a lot more sense of the craziness.

Non-mobile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit

Thanks for posting the non-mobile link. :)

Re: Bullshit.js

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post #9

Would be cool if it suggested alternatives like Grammarly does. Or just highlight the words and calculate a bullshit ratio or something.

>Would be cool if it suggested alternatives like Grammarly does. sounds kind of counter-productive. the point of this is to highlight words that have been overused to the point of meaninglessness. If you're trying to use it to improve your own writing, each red "bullshit" is an opportunity to stop and think about what you really mean, not an opportunity to use a different fancy-sounding word that's been suggested by…

Why can't its suggestions be in the style you said?

Re: Bullshit.js

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post #37
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The dictionary it uses is even more entertaining: https://github.com/mourner/bullshit.js/blob/master/src/terms...

Honorable mentions are “blockchain” and “internet of things” :)

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Re: Bullshit.js

#49

In the same vein as the surprisingly funny classic Cloud-to-Butt extension, which I am surprised to find is over 5 years old now: https://theawesomer.com/cloud-to-butt/276065/

That caused me problems when I edited a wiki page that was subscribed to by about 200 colleagues at Amazon. I changed around 20 mentions of the word cloud on the page to the word butt and hit save without realising.
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