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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
WEDNESDAY, 3 JULY 1957
You call it a "situationship" because "relationship" would mean someone has to commit to something.
They haven't. They've committed to watching your stories within four seconds and replying to nothing.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You negotiated your broadband bill down by $3 a month. The call took 94…
- You call it "quiet quitting". Your manager calls it "the same as before". Nobody…
- You asked the chatbot if you were a good parent. It said "absolutely" before…
- 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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Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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