Current favorite piece of business jargon (Stripe edition): "because reasons".
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Replying to @avibryant
It means "trust me that there is a reason for this surprising thing I am telling you, but that it's not important to explain it right now."
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Replying to @avibryant
@avibryant I always understood it as, "Because of reasons that are so stupid, yet predictable, that it would make you cry if I explained …"3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @peterseibel
@peterseibel@avibryant My experience is "there are valid reasons but they're complicated/dumb and not worth our time to explore right now."1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @gln
@gln@avibryant that's how I choose to interpret it when@peterseibel says that to me. Despite his apparently different definition.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @squarecog
@squarecog@gln@peterseibel look, the reasons for things are always complicated and dumb; that's a constant. Here they're also unimportant.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
@squarecog because reasons?
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