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    4 months ago

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    I thought it meant granular modification as in rice grains.

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      I case you didn’t see the other comments, this is a backronym to give people an excuse to say it isn’t actually racist. It comes from modding Japanese cars, referring to them as rice because they’re Asian. It’s pretty racist.