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I've indeed seen it used to mean basically 'this is serious but don't take it too seriously' if that makes sense, in the way that someone might say: 'university education is useless for the current job market lol'. I guess there are levels to this thing.


It'll be really disturbing when execs and legal departments start using it to soften bad news.

> Due to macroeconomic headwinds, we’ve made the very difficult decision to reduce our workforce by about 40 percent lol




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