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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
SATURDAY, 16 JANUARY 1971
You sent "lol" to avoid having feelings.
It worked. You feel nothing, said nothing, and lost the person who asked how you were.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- A budget is a list of things you're about to do anyway. Written down…
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- Inside every older person is a younger person. The younger person is furious about…
- Treat yourself, they said. You did. Four times before lunch. Your pension felt every…
- The return to office is completely optional. So was the badge-swipe leaderboard, and yet…
- Your bio says "foodie, traveller, dreamer". You've been abroad once, and you still talk…
- Money can't buy happiness. You'll never have enough to check.
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