#6: I felt old just a couple of weeks ago when someone responded to one of my Mastodon posts by saying "That's so based!"
I looked it up. Apparently it has a wider meaning of "well done for doing a thing the speaker approves of in spite of the thing also being controversial or unpopular", and an alt-right narrower meaning of "well done for opposing wokery" in particular.
In my case the comment was a response to a software tool I recently wrote to help people with anomalous colour vision, i.e. specifically intended as a disability-ish aid. (It's general enough to have other uses too, but that was the use that I particularly intended it for.) That might well make it the single most explicitly woke program I've ever written, so I have to assume the commenter didn't have the alt-right meaning in mind!
(The program has a certain bodge-nature, which I assume is the controversial-ness the commenter had in mind.)
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I looked it up. Apparently it has a wider meaning of "well done for doing a thing the speaker approves of in spite of the thing also being controversial or unpopular", and an alt-right narrower meaning of "well done for opposing wokery" in particular.
In my case the comment was a response to a software tool I recently wrote to help people with anomalous colour vision, i.e. specifically intended as a disability-ish aid. (It's general enough to have other uses too, but that was the use that I particularly intended it for.) That might well make it the single most explicitly woke program I've ever written, so I have to assume the commenter didn't have the alt-right meaning in mind!
(The program has a certain bodge-nature, which I assume is the controversial-ness the commenter had in mind.)