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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
FRIDAY, 7 JUNE 1968
Your friends' group chat went quiet.
It didn't. They made a new one. Same name, one fewer person.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Every company now has an AI assistant. It's the only member of staff nobody's…
- The house will be tidy again one day. The day they move out. Tidy,…
- Things will look better in the morning. No. They'll just be better lit.
- You're "chronically online". Chronic means long-term. You've been online so long your eyes have…
- No pain, no gain. You chose neither. Your heart has noted it in your…
- Your complaint has been escalated. It is now ignored by someone more senior.
- You said "we move". You've lived in the same bedroom since you were nine.
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