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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
TUESDAY, 23 JUNE 1981
Quality family time:
everyone on a different screen in the same room, harvested by the same algorithm.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- "We should get dinner sometime" is a beautiful promise. One of you will die…
- They'll hold a minute's silence for you at the all-hands. It will be the…
- Dating apps let you meet hundreds of people. All of them are "just seeing…
- Loud budgeting is telling everyone you can't afford brunch. Quiet budgeting is going anyway,…
- You're "chronically online". Chronic means long-term. You've been online so long your eyes have…
- “I'm here for the right reasons.” The reasons are a teeth-whitening deal and a…
- The bins are now fortnightly. The council tax is still monthly.
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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