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Your soft launch was a hand in a photo.
The hard launch never came. The hand has since soft-launched someone else.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
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- Your friends' group chat went quiet. It didn't. They made a new one. Same…
- Your fitness app's AI coach called a four-minute walk "incredible progress". It said the…
- You call it "quiet quitting". Your manager calls it "the same as before". Nobody…
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