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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
TUESDAY, 12 AUGUST 2025
Your company's core values are printed on the wall.
So nobody has to have them.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your financial advisor is a spreadsheet you opened once in January. It's been screaming…
- Fortnite was free to play. It was not free to stop.
- Your out-of-office reply is the most confident thing you wrote all year. Nobody noticed…
- You started saying "oof" when you sit down. That's the countdown, out loud.
- He vanished for five months, then texted "haha so true" like he'd just popped…
- You're "healing your inner child". Your inner child is fine. It's your outer adult…
- Growing old is mandatory. Growing up was optional. You ticked "later". This is later.…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 444
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