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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
WEDNESDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER 1998
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
- You "work best under pressure". You don't. You just only work under pressure.
- You got a houseplant to "take care of something". It died. Even the plant…
- "We should get dinner sometime" is a beautiful promise. One of you will die…
- You swore you'd never sound like your parents. You just said "because I said…
- Your Sunday-night plan for Monday was ambitious. Monday read it, laughed, and forwarded it…
- Your back now goes out when you sneeze. It goes out more than you…
- You're "chronically online". Chronic means long-term. You've been online so long your eyes have…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 445
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