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		65 on Feb 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff Nobody ever gets fired for buying IBM.

throwawayyy9237 on Feb 11, 2023 [–]

Exactly what came to mind.

If you do what everybody else does, you can blame outside factors if it goes wrong.

If you decide to be the one that _doesn't_ follow the trend, if it goes wrong, the blame falls on you.

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