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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
WEDNESDAY, 20 OCTOBER 1965
You call it "quiet quitting".
Your manager calls it "the same as before". Nobody can tell the difference. That's the bad news.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
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- AI agrees with you more than any human ever has. That's not wisdom. That's…
- The loot box has a 0.5% chance of something good. The studio has a…
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