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THURSDAY, 3 JULY 1997
Passive income takes a surprising amount of active effort.
Mostly explaining it at parties to people backing away.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- The council listened to your feedback. Then it did the thing anyway, but with…
- You don't skip leg day. You skip every day. The legs know. The legs…
- Quality family time: everyone on a different screen in the same room, harvested by…
- Strangers online have voted you "not wrong". The same strangers once voted to give…
- Your inbox reached zero once. The server was down. You were briefly free and…
- Everyone's bringing back the dog filter. Your face has been doing the droopy-ears look…
- Unlimited holiday is a lovely policy. The company did the maths on your guilt,…
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