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THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2001
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
- You have an eleven-step skincare routine. Your sleep schedule has none. The serum is…
- You swore you'd never sound like your parents. You just said "because I said…
- Wildflowering means letting the relationship grow naturally, with no timeline. It has the growth…
- The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. You took it…
- Your back now goes out when you sneeze. It goes out more than you…
- Doom spending is buying a heated eye mask because the news was bad. The…
- You reinstalled Pokémon Go to get your steps up. Eleven kilometres later you'd caught…
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