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DAILY DEMOTIVATION
A fresh disappointment every morning. Like the news, but more honest.
ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
THURSDAY, 3 DECEMBER 1959
Quality family time:
everyone on a different screen in the same room, harvested by the same algorithm.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Move fast and break things. You broke the coffee machine, the budget and your…
- Your savings account isn't empty. It's a memorial.
- The game asks if you want to continue. Nobody ever asks if you want…
- You're "chronically online". Chronic means long-term. You've been online so long your eyes have…
- You said you're "booked and busy". Booked for a dentist you'll cancel. Busy rewatching…
- Limited-time event. Will not return. Neither will your Saturday.
- Some meetings could have been an email. You'll spend four years of your one…
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