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2023-08-23 17:36:32
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Martijn Faassen on Nostr: npub13w6fh…l479m I don't really use that word but was curious about the etymology, ...

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I don't really use that word but was curious about the etymology, apparently:

"It was inherited from the practice of customizing cheap Asian import cars to make them appear to be faster than they actually were - which was also known as "ricing""

https://github.com/ibrahimbutt/direwolf-arch-rice

So definitely some possibly insensitive shortcuts taken (Asian = rice), though not sure it actually offends anyone. Is "ricing" adding rice? Is this by analogy of putting "icing" on a cake?
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