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[–] stingpie@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

This always cracks me up, because it's a perfect example of a snake eating it's own tail. "Based" was originally just a shortened way of saying "based in reality" or "based in fact", but new people didn't get the original context, so it just became it's own word. Then, the uninitiated started making the "Based? Based on what?" joke, completely oblivious of the original meaning.