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by s_trumpet 1933 days ago
It’s a reference to freebasing cocaine. Lil B’s detractors (apocryphally) used to call him based as an insult (analogous to crackhead) and he then started calling himself the Based God.
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That makes sense, thanks. I kind of like the idea of based meaning grounded... too bad I didn’t get there first.

“Should we split this out into microservices?” “Only when we’ve identified an acute need for the increased complexity in our architecture.” “Based thinking”