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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
MONDAY, 27 OCTOBER 1997
Your step counter used to set goals.
Now it just sends "Hello?" like a relative checking you're still alive.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You swore you'd never sound like your parents. You just said "because I said…
- You went "no contact" with your ex. You still check their Spotify. They're listening…
- Monday is a perfectly normal day. You've got about two thousand more of them.…
- You "love deeply". Mostly a fictional man who doesn't know you exist. Neither do…
- Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. They were picked first. You're what was left.
- You got a houseplant to "take care of something". It died. Even the plant…
- AI agrees with you more than any human ever has. That's not wisdom. That's…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 445
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