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MONDAY, 12 JULY 1971
Your complaint has been escalated.
It is now ignored by someone more senior.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Things will look better in the morning. No. They'll just be better lit.
- Every summit sends a very strong signal. The planet keeps not receiving it.
- Some meetings could have been an email. You'll spend four years of your one…
- Micro-dating is a thirty-minute coffee to see if there's a spark. There wasn't. She…
- Your friends' group chat went quiet. It didn't. They made a new one. Same…
- Clear-coding means stating your intentions up front. Hers was "I have a hard stop…
- You're not getting older. You're getting closer. That's worse.
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