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

Post by spicybright » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 10:24 PM UTC

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.

Post by makeitdouble » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 10:26 PM UTC

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.

Post by GauntletWizard » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 10:29 PM UTC

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #68

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...

Post by oxfordmale » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 10:32 PM UTC

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.

Post by PostThisTooFast » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 10:36 PM UTC

makeitdouble wrote: post #83

legitster wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

On top of munificent’s point, professionaly reading all day makes more vulnerable to word fatigue or blindness. Having a plugin force you to pay attention would be a good trick. The same way people subscribe to purposefully boring or AI generated subreddits on reddit to have non sensical items in their feed.