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SATURDAY, 4 AUGUST 1956
You "don't do small talk".
You also don't do big talk, phone calls, emails or replying. You do "vibes", and nobody can invoice those.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your resting heart rate is excellent. It's had nothing else to do.
- You "romanticise studying". You've filmed it, lit it and soundtracked it. You haven't studied.
- You asked the chatbot if you were a good parent. It said "absolutely" before…
- The losers stay in office until January. It's the only job where being fired…
- Being single means nobody steals your duvet. It also means the duvet is the…
- Every company now has an AI assistant. It's the only member of staff nobody's…
- You received 40 fundraising texts today. Democracy needs $5 by midnight. Every midnight.
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