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FRIDAY, 1 JUNE 1962
You bought the yoga mat.
The cat uses it. The cat is more flexible, more mindful and better liked.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your inbox reached zero once. The server was down. You were briefly free and…
- Your chatbot calls every one of your ideas "a really insightful question". Zack has…
- Your job title will outlive you. It's already been posted on LinkedIn, with a…
- You've been "circling back" since March. At this point you're space debris.
- Your inbox reached zero once. The server was down. You were briefly free and…
- You sent "lol" to avoid having feelings. It worked. You feel nothing, said nothing,…
- Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been…
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