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SATURDAY, 20 JANUARY 1990
Your fitness app's AI coach called a four-minute walk "incredible progress".
It said the same when you opened it by accident. It'll keep saying it after you've gone, if nobody cancels the subscription.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You'll leave your children everything you have. It's mostly a bread maker and an…
- Parenthood is a long journey from "mama" to "can you send money" to them…
- The retirement age goes up a year every time you check. It's not a…
- Inside every older person is a younger person. The younger person is furious about…
- Wisdom comes with age. So does standing on the landing with no idea why…
- Listen to your body. It's asking for a biscuit and a lie-down. It's been…
- Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. They were picked first. You're what was left.
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