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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
SUNDAY, 21 JANUARY 1996
Parenting is ten percent love
and ninety percent asking where the other shoe is. Then they leave and take both.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Inside every older person is a younger person. The younger person is furious about…
- Your out-of-office reply is the most confident thing you wrote all year. Nobody noticed…
- You'll leave your children everything you have. It's mostly a bread maker and an…
- Disrupt the industry. The industry will disrupt you back, then buy your logo for…
- You film "Sunday reset" videos. By Tuesday your room has reset itself, to Saturday.
- AI agrees with you more than any human ever has. That's not wisdom. That's…
- Things will look better in the morning. No. They'll just be better lit.
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