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SATURDAY, 20 MARCH 1999
Every company now has an AI assistant.
It's the only member of staff nobody's asked to come in on Fridays, and the only one getting your job.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Monday is a perfectly normal day. You've got about two thousand more of them.…
- The weekend is two days long. Monday is nine emotional days long, and you're…
- You said "we move". You've lived in the same bedroom since you were nine.
- The update is 200GB. Your free afternoon was smaller.
- Your desk plant is the only thing in the office still growing. When you…
- Your savings account isn't empty. It's a memorial.
- You said "this is my year". You've said it since 2019. The years have…
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