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DAILY DEMOTIVATION
A fresh disappointment every morning. Like the news, but more honest.
2026 is the new 2016. Your knees did not get the memo. Your knees are getting different memos now, mostly from a specialist.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Every Monday you swear this week will be different. You've sworn it nine hundred…
- Inside every older person is a younger person. The younger person is furious about…
- You "love deeply". Mostly a fictional man who doesn't know you exist. Neither do…
- You'll leave your children everything you have. It's mostly a bread maker and an…
- Loud budgeting is telling everyone you can't afford brunch. Quiet budgeting is going anyway,…
- Your back now goes out when you sneeze. It goes out more than you…
- You "don't believe in labels". You believe in being kept as an option.
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 445
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