When did those two words start meaning different things?

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

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

Will Imperial vs. Metric arguments never be settled?!

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

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)

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

So... more excuses to use lasers?

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?!"

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