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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
WEDNESDAY, 9 SEPTEMBER 1998
You're "chronically online".
Chronic means long-term. You've been online so long your eyes have a loading icon.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- "We should get dinner sometime" is a beautiful promise. One of you will die…
- Your fitness app's AI coach called a four-minute walk "incredible progress". It said the…
- The best time to start saving was twenty years ago. The second-best time was…
- You have a "comfort show". You've watched it 11 times. You've seen your friends…
- Your 47 open tabs are an accurate map of your inner life. Someone will…
- You got a houseplant to "take care of something". It died. Even the plant…
- Dating apps let you meet hundreds of people. All of them are "just seeing…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
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