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SATURDAY, 4 AUGUST 2001
Passive income takes a surprising amount of active effort.
Mostly explaining it at parties to people backing away.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
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- Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been…
- You swore you'd never sound like your parents. You just said "because I said…
- You got a houseplant to "take care of something". It died. Even the plant…
- You are exactly where you're meant to be. That should frighten you more than…
- You wanted a mini-me. You got a tiny negotiator who has never once lost…
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