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While I have absolutely no issues with the word "shit" in popular terms, I'd normally like to reserve it for situations where there's actually intended malice like in "enshittification".

Rather than just an imperfect technology as we have here.

Many people object to the term enshittification for foul-mouthing reasons but I think it covers it very well because the principle it covers is itself so very nasty. But that's not at all the case here.



"Bullshitting" isn't a new piece of jargon, it's a common English word of many decades vintage, and is being used in its dictionary sense here.




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