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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".

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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".

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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.

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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.

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