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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When did those two words start meaning different things?

[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Ironically, chonky is this generation's cutesy-husky

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 28 points 3 months ago
[–] FancyPantsFIRE@lemm.ee 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] boblin@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 months ago

norultiopt deas bear boy

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago

What if the entire earth had lasers pointed at the moon and...

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 20 points 3 months ago

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

[–] JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Will Imperial vs. Metric arguments never be settled?!

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months 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@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Great tangent, well done team!

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Why not both?

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months 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)

[–] Siethron@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

So... more excuses to use lasers?

[–] ArtemisimetrA@lemm.ee -1 points 3 months 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?!"