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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
THURSDAY, 3 FEBRUARY 2000
Your squad misses you, says the notification.
Your squad is four strangers and a retention dashboard.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Synergy is two departments confused about the same thing at once. They'll merge. You'll…
- Your friends' group chat went quiet. It didn't. They made a new one. Same…
- Your favourite music is now called "a classic". So are you. It means old.
- You received 40 fundraising texts today. Democracy needs $5 by midnight. Every midnight.
- You said you're "so busy" this week. Your screen time says eleven hours a…
- You're not getting older. You're getting closer. That's worse.
- Your call is important to us. Not important enough to answer, but important.
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