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    “Hold on, dear investors! I’m confident that we can simply steer our ship straight through the middle of the massive iceberg!”

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      Ironically, had the titanic hit the iceberg straight on it probably would have survived. Swerving at the very last moment was what made it sink.

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        Be gone with your counterintuitive realism, getting in the way of an entertaining metaphor!

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      “There is no danger that Reddit will sink. The site is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the user bases.”

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        " The site is unsinkable. We’ve simply decided to spend some time underwater while we work out some tech issues. "