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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
MONDAY, 5 NOVEMBER 2001
You "romanticise studying".
You've filmed it, lit it and soundtracked it. You haven't studied.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You received 40 fundraising texts today. Democracy needs $5 by midnight. Every midnight.
- There's no I in team. There are two in "invoice still unpaid". And one…
- You don't have a spending problem. You have an income problem, and it's terminal.
- The house will be tidy again one day. The day they move out. Tidy,…
- Every company now has an AI assistant. It's the only member of staff nobody's…
- Your resting heart rate is excellent. It's had nothing else to do.
- Your complaint has been escalated. It is now ignored by someone more senior.
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