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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
WEDNESDAY, 3 AUGUST 2005
No pain, no gain.
You chose neither. Your heart has noted it in your file.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You flipped a water bottle on Monday morning just to feel something. It landed.…
- They say sweat is weakness leaving the body. Yours has decided to stay.
- He vanished for five months, then texted "haha so true" like he'd just popped…
- Strangers online have voted you "not wrong". The same strangers once voted to give…
- You said "that's so me" about a horoscope. It also described 600 million other…
- Your fitness app's AI coach called a four-minute walk "incredible progress". It said the…
- Your therapist said set boundaries. You set one. Then texted them at 2 a.m.…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
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