Post AybpfGQQ3TubKTb4AS by Jestbill@mastodon.world
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(DIR) Post #Ayboh7MEdfrHpdxZQm by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-26T20:21:08Z
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I just explained to middle school students the meaning of “get in the zone” and how in the 90s everything was “xtreme” and now I feel old. These days you “lock in” and everything is “based” (based on what?)Why would lockdown traumatized kids want to “lock in?”
(DIR) Post #Aybp9hCEz6kt5mubrs by darkling@mstdn.social
2025-09-26T20:26:13Z
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@futurebird Surely you can choose your basis, as long as it's linearly independent?
(DIR) Post #AybpHGKckd8I5bRQY4 by troberts@theblower.au
2025-09-26T20:27:33Z
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@futurebird I took it to mean a variation of “lock on target”. I.e. get focused, set your strategy in place, and go for it.(Says 48yr old me trying to understand my 14yr old child)
(DIR) Post #AybpHzU4sKQu7xD720 by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-09-26T20:27:44Z
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@futurebird all your based are belong to us
(DIR) Post #AybpRSTgRlu2eiXaPg by SKleefeld@mastodon.social
2025-09-26T20:29:28Z
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@futurebird Heh. I'm reminded of MST3K's takedown of "xtreme"-ing everything. 😄 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JePOUmbkixA
(DIR) Post #AybpfGQQ3TubKTb4AS by Jestbill@mastodon.world
2025-09-26T20:31:58Z
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@futurebird Betcha right wingers think they're gaining something if teenagers use "based" and a version of "lock and load".Too bad.Kids will run with it and make it unintelligible to 'em.
(DIR) Post #AybprB0m0bUy0wHWIC by Catfish_Man@mastodon.social
2025-09-26T20:34:07Z
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@futurebird presumably for the same reason they would want you to let them cook, but not be cooked
(DIR) Post #AybpvldDnX08kQSEeO by Smoljaguar@spacey.space
2025-09-26T20:34:56Z
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@futurebird it's funny that based was originally a reference to freebase cocaine and none of the right-wingers who use it know this
(DIR) Post #AybqfmA89lvxiNmmu0 by dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-09-26T20:43:08Z
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@futurebird "based" comes down to "on crack" (i.e. freebase cocaine), doesn't it? To be based is to be impulsive, decisive, to not GAF in the way that a crackhead supposedly DGAF.At least, that's where I understood the term to come from.
(DIR) Post #AybreoIooXGo16x9nM by sinvega@mas.to
2025-09-26T20:54:18Z
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@futurebird better than going to school
(DIR) Post #AybrxM3K4SBVu4Y1Im by rustoleumlove@mastodon.online
2025-09-26T20:57:37Z
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@futurebird whats funny to me is that 'based' is not new. (as others are noting)we were using it liberally on the forum i used to moderate way back in the aughtsi feel like 'on fleek' (anyone remember that?) kinda died out thoas for lock in, that sounds like something that came from a video game 😂
(DIR) Post #AybskZpLe6S2oXTxFA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-26T21:06:34Z
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@Catfish_Man “let him cook”that is aave for old people like my great grandma i get whiplash every time some NJ girl says it on tiktok— who keeps telling?yall ruined woke Im sick of it.
(DIR) Post #AybtkKZ6UPa9QyKY1Q by Neat_hot@beige.party
2025-09-26T21:17:39Z
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@futurebird Isn't "lock in" a game show thing to indicate you've committed to your choice?
(DIR) Post #AybvhyB6x7iNKb6siW by dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-09-26T21:39:28Z
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@futurebird My guess is "lock in" involves *focus* as in "lock in on a target" and may come from video games. Based appears to be an instance of reclaiming an insult https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/based
(DIR) Post #Ayc5z78TtubPZqh4Vc by dank@jorts.horse
2025-09-26T23:34:48Z
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@futurebird presumably locking in is the same as getting in the zone - an engaged flow statebased is from Lil B, The Based God, it's a broadly positive term to describe something or someone that's openly self-expressive and aware, generally rooted in positivity and goodness or quality, the polar opposite of cringe.