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FRIDAY, 13 FEBRUARY 2026
Strangers online have voted you "not wrong".
The same strangers once voted to give a research ship a silly name. You are the silly name.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. They were picked first. You're what was left.
- "We should get dinner sometime" is a beautiful promise. One of you will die…
- Think outside the box. The box had the budget. You're out here with a…
- Every relationship has a honeymoon period. Yours was the walk from the bar to…
- Your 47 open tabs are an accurate map of your inner life. Someone will…
- Your back now goes out when you sneeze. It goes out more than you…
- A budget is a list of things you're about to do anyway. Written down…
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