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Your Duolingo owl has stopped threatening you.
It's not proud. It's given up. Even the bird has moved on.
— Zack, unqualified
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- "Let's take this offline" means "let's never speak of this again." That's also the…
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- You "work best under pressure". You don't. You just only work under pressure.
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- 2026 is the new 2016. Your knees did not get the memo. Your knees…
- You've "romanticised your life". It's a candle, a croissant and a playlist called "main…
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