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your body's way of staging a tiny rebellion after you fed it the wrong dictator

means To swell or feel uncomfortably full and distended, especially with gas, fluid, or excess of any kind.

from From an old Germanic root meaning "soft" or "swollen," a cousin of words like "blow" — the sense of something puffed up with air or water. Early English used "blote" for things soft and waterlogged (a bloated, brine-soaked herring was once simply a "bloater"). From puffy fish to puffy bellies and puffy software, the word has always meant the same thing: something distended past its proper size.

gas math
You produce up to two liters of gas daily
dead origin
Bloated cattle die when trapped gas crushes their lungs
swallowed air
Half of bloating comes from gulped air, not food
software too
Bloatware ships preloaded, eating storage you never wanted used
corpse fact
Postmortem bloat can move bodies, faking signs of life
for instance

windows 11 — microsoft os with 4gb minimum ram requirement, criticized for unnecessary features and bundled apps

electron framework — chromium-based app framework that bundles entire browser engine, making simple apps 150mb+

adobe creative cloud — suite requiring 20gb+ storage with features most users never access

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