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Re:Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines by kingcharles on Friday April 08, 2022 @10:08AM (#30956932)
Off-topic, but do you mean "biased" when you say "based"? I feel like I'm in some parallel universe because I swear for the last 6 months I've not seen a single person spell biased right.

Was there a meeting where everyone agreed to make a confusing change to the spelling and no-one told me about it?

Re:Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines by eti on Friday April 08, 2022 @10:15AM (#30957008)
Re:Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines by maxerickson on Friday April 08, 2022 @10:56AM (#30957748)
Re:Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines by simiones on Friday April 08, 2022 @10:28AM (#30957212)
"Based" is similar to some uses of "cool" - it's a kind of generic positive adjective. You can read it as "sounds pretty good to me" / "sounds pretty cool to me".

It has nothing at all to do with "biased".

Re:Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines by Markoff on Friday April 08, 2022 @10:42AM (#30957475)
I've never seen it used as "cool", it's much more commonly used as synonym for "conservative" or "unique going own way despite popular opinion".

EDIT: Other poster explained it maybe better as "being yourself and not caring what others think of you".

Re:Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines by simiones on Friday April 08, 2022 @12:50PM (#30959512)
> "unique going own way despite popular opinion"

Well, that's at least one aspect of "being cool", so I still feel they are at least vaguely related.

Re:Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines by jpadkins on Friday April 08, 2022 @10:59AM (#30957827)
more specific than just cool, it sometimes means the opposite of debased (: to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character. : to reduce the intrinsic value of (a coin) by increasing the base-metal content )

I've read it as high quality, high character, or high value depending on the subject.

Re:Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines by slackfan on Friday April 08, 2022 @10:10AM (#30956959)
No, based =/= biased.
Re:Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines by smnrchrds on Friday April 08, 2022 @10:35AM (#30957350)
> Based is a slang term that originally meant to be addicted to crack cocaine (or acting like you were), but was reclaimed by rapper Lil B for being yourself and not caring what others think of you—to carry yourself with swagger.

> Based has been appropriated by the alt-right online as a general term of praise, as if “un-woke.”

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/based/

Well, TIL.

Re:Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines by tenebrisalietum on Friday April 08, 2022 @10:45AM (#30957533)
Based is the opposite of cringe, the usage started with 4chan and continues on /pol/ to this day.
Re:Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines by CryptoBanker on Friday April 08, 2022 @10:22AM (#30957127)
It’s a young persons word…
Re:Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines by kingcharles on Friday April 08, 2022 @11:50AM (#30958735)
OK, cool. So it's like how everyone tried to make "on fleek" a thing a little while back?
Re:Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines by exfascist on Friday April 08, 2022 @10:29AM (#30957241)
I'm still not convinced it isn't partially related to the word "base" as in "bad" or "cool" which has been used for a pretty long time.
Re:Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines by fullshark on Friday April 08, 2022 @10:43AM (#30957494)
I think its origin is being high on crack cocaine (freebase) and feeling good as a result
Re:Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines by newbamboo on Friday April 08, 2022 @10:50AM (#30957615)
From “All your base are belong to us.” Not a new term. It’s a gamer thing.