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SUNDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2023
Your fitness app's AI coach called a four-minute walk "incredible progress".
It said the same when you opened it by accident. It'll keep saying it after you've gone, if nobody cancels the subscription.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Everything happens for a reason. The reason is you. It's always been you.
- There's no I in team. There are two in "invoice still unpaid". And one…
- Your financial advisor is a spreadsheet you opened once in January. It's been screaming…
- You're "on a gap year". It's your third.
- You put "entrepreneur" in your bio. You've sold one pair of trainers on Vinted…
- Your Candy Crush streak is on day 212. The game hasn't been fun since…
- He vanished for five months, then texted "haha so true" like he'd just popped…
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