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MONDAY, 1 MARCH 1999
Your 5am routine went viral.
You did it once, filmed it, and have slept until 11 every day since. The algorithm doesn't know. Your landlord does.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You bought 41 games in the Steam sale. You will play two. The other…
- "Let's take this offline" means "let's never speak of this again." That's also the…
- You received 40 fundraising texts today. Democracy needs $5 by midnight. Every midnight.
- Micro-dating is a thirty-minute coffee to see if there's a spark. There wasn't. She…
- Strangers online have voted you "not wrong". The same strangers once voted to give…
- You wanted a mini-me. You got a tiny negotiator who has never once lost…
- Don't settle. Your standards already have. They didn't tell you.
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