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SUNDAY, 24 NOVEMBER 1957
Mistakes were made.
The Notes app has never once said by whom.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You said "we move". You've lived in the same bedroom since you were nine.
- Being a parent means eating cold crusts standing up and calling it dinner. You'll…
- You moneymaxxed so hard this month you earned $4.80 in cashback. It cost three…
- You put "open to work" on LinkedIn. Six recruiters viewed your profile. Five were…
- Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. They were picked first. You're what was left.
- You don't have a spending problem. You have an income problem, and it's terminal.
- Passive income takes a surprising amount of active effort. Mostly explaining it at parties…
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