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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When did those two words start meaning different things?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Ironically, chonky is this generation's cutesy-husky

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Here’s some AI slop to definitely explain this in a coherent way.

[–] boblin 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Laser iellones!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

norultiopt deas bear boy

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Oh no the laser is too powerful! You shot straight through!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

Chonky and fat are the same thing. Did they mean floofy?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Will Imperial vs. Metric arguments never be settled?!

[–] DasFaultier 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ugh, don't bring that up again.

It's really simple: one chonky bear converts to 4 lynxes, which weigh 17 raccoons, which in turn weigh exactly 7 armadillos, that come down to 638 roaches.

Upwards conversion is just as easy: one chonky bear is exactly 1/3 of a Swasticar, which converts to 2/7 of a large boulder the size of a small boulder.

[–] flambonkscious 3 points 2 weeks ago

Great tangent, well done team!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wicked, now we can fat shame bears instead of each other.

[–] tja 3 points 2 weeks ago

Why not both?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

This is one of my favourite Lemmy communities. I always smile at posts like these (and I often have at least one friend who would enjoy such posts)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/02/tech/fat-bear-week-lidar-weight/index.html

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

"She's just big boned..."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

So... more excuses to use lasers?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Just ask bears. I am sure they are all big-boned.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago

This feels like a poor response to the "would you rather be alone in the woods with a man or a bear" social profiler. "Yeah but that bear is fat, would you really want to be mauled by a fat bear instead of violated and gaslit by an aLpHa MaLe?!"