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WEDNESDAY, 10 APRIL 1963
You moneymaxxed so hard this month you earned $4.80 in cashback.
It cost three new cards and a Sunday. You get roughly 4,000 Sundays. That was one.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
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- The pothole is on the list. The list is dynamic. The pothole is permanent.
- Your startup is a chatbot that tells customers they're right. Investors loved it. The…
- You rage quit because the game was rigged. You were also just bad. Both…
- Your soft launch was a hand in a photo. The hard launch never came.…
- Till death do us part. Not a vow. A fixed-term contract with an unspecified…
- Your Sunday-night plan for Monday was ambitious. Monday read it, laughed, and forwarded it…
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