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WEDNESDAY, 17 JANUARY 1973
You'll leave your children everything you have.
It's mostly a bread maker and an overdraft.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You call your mum "for advice". You call her for the Netflix password.
- Your desk plant is the only thing in the office still growing. When you…
- The hardest part of working out is getting started. You've made sure it stays…
- You received 40 fundraising texts today. Democracy needs $5 by midnight. Every midnight.
- The in-office lunch is optional. The man with the clipboard and no sandwich is…
- You call it "quiet quitting". Your manager calls it "the same as before". Nobody…
- Wisdom comes with age. So does standing on the landing with no idea why…
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