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Re: Cloud-to-butt plugin used in Amazon Job Posting?

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Post by renewiltord »

willcipriano wrote: post #31
airstrike wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So did Wired: > In 2016, Wired magazine made a similar mistake and published an article in which Donald Trump's name was replaced with "someone with tiny hands". > The error made it past the magazine's production team, who had assumed it was an intentional joke. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43331054

Can't get past the paywall but am I the only one who is a bit alarmed that a fact checker employs such a plugin via a work machine? If you need to alter words in text of news you read in order to find it palatable you aren't really a person living on reality's terms.

I installed a Cloud to Butt extension and sadly now I am unable to comprehend anything but buttocks. I look at the sky and there are buttocks everywhere. In the immediate moments after installation, I suddenly found myself floating in the void. Existence had no meaning because reality had no meaning. In this darkness, I found a kind of formless peace that was shattered soon enough by a stormbutt of extraordinary proportions. Death had no meaning, but I was forced into life, a life that remained divorced from reality, but lived beside it.

Others were alarmed and concerned and disturbed by this, but I chose (if choice can have meaning under these circumstances) to not live my life under a butt, even if it meant that I must have my head in the butts.

Re: Cloud-to-butt plugin used in Amazon Job Posting?

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Post by benttoothpaste »

syspec wrote: post #57
duskwuff wrote: post #13

The New York Times has run into similar issues in the past: > Because of an editing error involving a satirical text-swapping web browser extension, an earlier version of this article misquoted a passage from an article by the Times reporter Jim Tankersley. The sentence referred to America’s narrowing trade deficit during “the Great Recession,” not during “the Time of Shedding and Cold Rocks.” (Pro tip: Disable your…

So there's a butt plugin?

There is butt-to-butt plugin that replaces the word “butt” with “butt”.

Re: Cloud-to-butt plugin used in Amazon Job Posting?

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Post by chestervonwinch »

_jal wrote: post #19
Minor49er wrote: post #14

This takes the term "backend engineer" to a whole new level

In a job a long time ago, I was on a conference call in which a sales guy kept repeatedly emphasizing the value and importance of their "robust, scalable backend". Eventually, we had to mute the phone, people around the table couldn't keep from laughing.

Our elastic backend effortlessly scales with ingestion!

Re: Cloud-to-butt plugin used in Amazon Job Posting?

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Post by chrononaut »

duskwuff wrote: post #13

The New York Times has run into similar issues in the past: > Because of an editing error involving a satirical text-swapping web browser extension, an earlier version of this article misquoted a passage from an article by the Times reporter Jim Tankersley. The sentence referred to America’s narrowing trade deficit during “the Great Recession,” not during “the Time of Shedding and Cold Rocks.” (Pro tip: Disable your…

Somewhat OT, but I enjoy encountering the humorous corrections that are sometimes made to news articles for one reason or another. Reminiscent of: https://twitter.com/NPRKelly/status/1349787672345268224

Re: Cloud-to-butt plugin used in Amazon Job Posting?

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Post by AdmiralAsshat »

reidjs wrote: post #3

Great catch, that's the oldest prank in the book, but still one of the funniest.

Surely it can't be that old, given that the Cloud to Butt Plus extension only goes back to 2014:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus...

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Post by munificent »

legitster wrote: post #54
duskwuff wrote: post #13

The New York Times has run into similar issues in the past: > Because of an editing error involving a satirical text-swapping web browser extension, an earlier version of this article misquoted a passage from an article by the Times reporter Jim Tankersley. The sentence referred to America’s narrowing trade deficit during “the Great Recession,” not during “the Time of Shedding and Cold Rocks.” (Pro tip: Disable your…

I just can't get over the idea that someone who (ostensibly) works as a professional writer or editor would have that plugin installed. Although the irony is not lost on me - a millennial, wanting to make fun of overwrought millennial tropes, ends up committing one.

> works as a professional writer or editor would have that plugin installed.

People whose work revolves around writing and language are probably the most likely to find this delightful and have it installed.

Most just remember to disable it before working.

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