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DAILY DEMOTIVATION
A fresh disappointment every morning. Like the news, but more honest.
You negotiated your broadband bill down by $3 a month.
The call took 94 minutes. You break even in 2031. They put it back up in 2027.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You call it "quiet quitting". Your manager calls it "the same as before". Nobody…
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- You "grew out of" your old friends. They grew out of waiting for you…
- Parenting is ten percent love and ninety percent asking where the other shoe is.…
- You are a brief arrangement of atoms that learned to worry about emails.
- You rage quit because the game was rigged. You were also just bad. Both…
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THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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