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THURSDAY, 19 MAY 1988
Early access means you paid to watch someone not finish something.
You do that at work for free.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your step counter used to set goals. Now it just sends "Hello?" like a…
- Scale your business. Currently it's you, a laptop, and your mum, who bought one…
- You moneymaxxed so hard this month you earned $4.80 in cashback. It cost three…
- No pain, no gain. You chose neither. Your heart has noted it in your…
- You negotiated your broadband bill down by $3 a month. The call took 94…
- You got a houseplant to "take care of something". It died. Even the plant…
- You're "in your villain era". You returned a lukewarm coffee and apologised four times.…
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