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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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