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WEDNESDAY, 19 JUNE 1991
You said you're "so busy" this week.
Your screen time says eleven hours a day. Busy is one word for it. Scrolling is the other.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You've got a side hustle, a passion project and a podcast. Combined monthly income:…
- Monday is a perfectly normal day. You've got about two thousand more of them.…
- Someone laminated an "Acceptable Behaviour" poster for the office kitchen. It will still be…
- Parenthood is a long journey from "mama" to "can you send money" to them…
- Your out-of-office reply is the most confident thing you wrote all year. Nobody noticed…
- Nobody notices when you do your job well. Everyone notices when you leave at…
- You said "that's so me" about a horoscope. It also described 600 million other…
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