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Cousin ne shaadi card pe mera naam galat chhap diya, ab main “mohit” hoon shaadi ke card pe mera naam "Rohit" hai. par print hua "Mohit." aur ye galti tab pakdi jab poora card already chhap chuka tha. saare card baant bhi diye gaye. ab function me jitne bhi log aaye, sabne card padha, aur mujhe "Mohit" bulane lage. ek do ne nahi, sabne. poora function bhar mujhe Mohit hi samajh liya gaya. main pehle theek karne ki koshish kar raha tha, har baar "actually Rohit hoon main" bolta. par kitne logon ko sudhaarta. thak gaya. toh maine bhi "haan haan" bolna shuru kar...
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My friend gave me a gift a week before she died. it’s still wrapped. She handed it to me maybe seven days before the accident. I never got the chance to open it. Two apartment moves later and the box is still here. Still in its wrapping, tape untouched, corners a little soft now from being packed and unpacked. I genuinely don't remember what's inside. Could be nothing, could be something small. Doesn't matter. Because the second I open it, it stops being the last thing she'll ever hand me and becomes just a thing. Sealed, it's still from her. Opened, it's just mine....
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My brother wanted art, not engineering, and i stayed silent I knew. Of all the people in that house, I was probably the one who knew best. I'd seen the sketchbooks he didn't show anyone. I'd caught the way his face changed when he talked about it versus how flat it went when the word "engineering" came up at dinner. But when our parents made their decision - the sensible one, the respectable one, the one that looked right on paper - I said nothing. I was younger, and it felt like it wasn't my fight, and honestly a part...
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I told my wife i “wasn’t hungry” – i was skipping lunch for our daughter’s fees Money was thin that month and the fees were due. So I quietly stopped eating lunch. Just tea at the office canteen, day after day, telling myself it was temporary and telling her at home that I "wasn't really hungry these days." She believed me for a while. Then a colleague mentioned to her, casually, that he'd noticed I hadn't eaten anything but tea for two weeks straight. She never confronted me. Didn't make a scene, didn't cry, didn't demand to know why I hadn't told her. She just started...
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Aamir khan’s marriage sparks religious controversy after reported fatwa Actor Aamir Khan has become the center of a fresh controversy after a Muslim cleric reportedly issued a fatwa criticizing his marriage to Gauri Spratt, describing the interfaith union as being "against Sharia." What began as celebrity wedding news has now taken on a religious and social dimension, drawing attention far beyond the entertainment industry. The reported fatwa has triggered debate over personal choice, interfaith marriages, and the role of religious opinions in public life. While such declarations do not carry legal force under Indian law, they often generate significant...
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Told a match i wasn’t a big drinker, then ordered two cocktails on the date Told a Tinder match, early on in the texting, that I was "not really a big drinker." Casual, honest at the time, no agenda. Just setting a vibe. Cut to the actual date, an hour or so in, and I had somehow, without any conscious thought, ordered two cocktails. Two. Before it hit me what I'd claimed earlier. The words came back to me mid-sip, and the contradiction was already sitting right there on the table in front of me, garnished. He noticed. Of course he noticed. He didn't say...
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My parents were more curious than worried I casually mentioned to my parents that I'd matched with someone from Canada. Instead of asking why I was talking to someone so far away, my mom immediately wanted to know what Canadian winters were actually like. My dad asked whether she'd ever visited India before. Nothing serious came from that match, but it was funny seeing my parents become more interested in another country's culture than in my dating life.
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Iran conflict now showing up in whale conservation research The ripple effects of the Iran conflict are now reaching an unexpected field: marine wildlife research. Scientists studying the recovery of whale "supergroups" have noted that the disruption to shipping in and around the Persian Gulf could affect those gains. Researchers say changes in commercial shipping routes and prolonged uncertainty in the region may alter marine traffic patterns, creating new challenges for whale populations that had recently shown signs of recovery. It's an unusual reminder that the consequences of a geopolitical conflict can extend well beyond energy markets and trade,...
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32f, divorced once, not broken, just more specific now I'm 32, based in Pune, originally from Nagpur. Marketing manager at a mid-sized firm. Marathi, Hindu, 5'4", vegetarian, non-drinker. I was married for three years. It ended amicably, and there's no drama worth rehashing here. What I'll say is that it left me clearer about what I actually want, rather than jaded about the whole idea. That's the "more specific" part. Outside of work I love trekking, genuinely terrible reality TV, and cooking elaborate Sunday breakfasts for exactly one person. I've made peace with the table for one, but I...
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The road to my village disappeared during the rain Village is around 15km from Bahraich, and during heavy monsoon the kutcha road connecting it to the highway becomes basically unusable for any kind of vehicle, two-wheeler or four. One night of continuous rain this year and half the road went underwater, bikes kept getting stuck in the mud everywhere along the stretch, some people just abandoned theirs and walked. School bus didn't come for three days straight cause it simply couldn't reach safely at all during that period, kids stayed home the whole time. For people in cities rain...
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Asked if i “still” have the job i’ve had 2 years The relative approached with the specific energy of someone gathering intel. The question: "Beta, tum abhi bhi wahi job kar rahe ho?" - are you STILL doing that same job? Emphasis on "still," as though my two-year, stable, full-time employment was clearly a passing phase everyone assumed had ended by now. I confirmed. Yes. Still the job. Same role. Same company. Two years and counting. Gainfully, boringly, consistently employed. And I watched a flicker of disappointment cross her face. Because there was no drama in my answer. No "I quit...
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I added two hours to my drive just to have an excuse to skip a family party Coming back from a work trip, I deliberately took the long way. Not because of roads or scenery — because the long way meant I'd roll in "too late" for my cousin's engagement party. Manufactured a delay on purpose so the miss would look accidental. Everyone bought the traffic story. Of course they did. Traffic's the most believable lie in the country. The real reason wasn't anything against my cousin. I just didn't have it in me that week. Didn't have the energy to put on the face, do the...
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Grandfather still writes real letters to his friend, despite having a smartphone Both of them have had smartphones for years now, perfectly capable of video calls, voice notes, instant messages, anything modern communication offers. And yet, every single month, an actual physical letter still goes back and forth between them. Asked him once why he doesn't just call instead, would be so much easier. He said the phone "feels too fast for real conversation," like something gets lost when it's instant. His friend, apparently, feels exactly the same way and writes back in kind, same slow, deliberate pace. Two men in their...
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The odyssey’ crosses ₹117 crore in india as budget details surface Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has crossed ₹117 crore at the Indian box office, continuing its strong theatrical run. Alongside its box office performance, another aspect of the film has grabbed attention: reports detailing its massive $250 million production budget. The reported budget breakdown includes estimated salaries for lead stars Matt Damon, Tom Holland, and Zendaya, offering a rare glimpse into the financial structure of one of Hollywood's biggest productions. Such detailed cost information typically becomes public well after a film completes its theatrical run, making the early circulation of these...
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Said “extra class ran late.” we just stood by the gate. The extra class ended right on time, exactly as scheduled. What followed was forty-five minutes of just standing outside the gate, talking, in no particular hurry to actually go anywhere. Told my mother the extra class had run late, adding that one small specific detail purely because specificity always sounds more believable than a vague excuse. A named, plausible reason instead of a fuzzy one. It worked. It always seems to work. I remain slightly guilty about how effectively small, specific little details function as excuses, almost more than the...
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Sold my eth at the top, felt like warren buffett for exactly 11 days Timed the top exactly once in my life. Once. For 11 days I genuinely thought I'd figured this whole thing out. Then made the mistake of opening Twitter, where some account with barely any followers was screaming ETH's going to 5L and anyone waiting will "cope forever." Bought back in higher because apparently my strategy now depends on strangers with anime pfps. That re-entry is sitting 38% underwater. Honestly the screenshot of my original exit price hurts more than the loss itself. I'd already won. I just couldn't leave the...
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I told my flatmate i loved living alone. i was terrified of the silence. I got the apartment a year before she moved in. When she asked what it was like living solo, I said something breezy about loving the peace and freedom. Truth is, empty flat after 11 pm made my chest go tight every single night. I slept with the TV on the whole time - not for company exactly, just so the silence couldn't get that loud. She noticed I keep the TV running late and assumed it was for "ambience." I let her believe that. Never told her the real...
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My grandmother asked why i look tired in every photo and then dismantled my entire generation in one sentence Grandmother, flipping through photos, lands on me and goes: "why do you look tired in every single picture?" Ma'am. It's a 9-to-9. With a two-hour commute bolted onto each end. My face isn't a mood, it's a status report. That's not tiredness you're seeing, that's the physical residue of a lifestyle designed by people who've never met me. I try to explain. The hours, the traffic, the soul-flattening metro rides. I make my case. She hears all of it, waits, and then delivers, with total serenity: "in my time we...
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The beach in goa wasn’t what instagram showed Planned a short Goa trip after seeing hundreds of gorgeous reels online for weeks, everyone made the beaches look fully untouched and perfect from every single angle imaginable. The sunset itself was stunning when we finally got there, no complaints at all, worth the trip on its own. But the beach right near my hotel was scattered with plastic bottles, food wrappers, and even some broken glass near the water's edge that I noticed while walking barefoot. The photos online had clearly cropped all of that mess out entirely, probably...
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I filed the complaint about our landlord and let my best friend take the blame The wiring was genuinely unsafe. The kind of thing that ends in a fire if nobody does anything. My friend had complained to the landlord directly once, verbally, and gotten nowhere. So I went around everyone and filed an anonymous complaint with the authorities. Quiet, official, the thing that would actually force a fix. It worked. But when the landlord's family started hunting for who'd "gone and reported them," suspicion landed straight on her - she was the one on record complaining, after all. They cornered her, blamed her, made...
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My friends couldn’t believe i matched with her When I showed my friends the match, nobody believed me at first. She had been one of the most popular seniors in school, and half the junior boys had a harmless crush on her. She turned out to be nothing like the image we'd built in our heads years ago. She was funny, down-to-earth, and admitted she barely remembered being "popular" because she was too busy preparing for exams. Meeting her reminded me how much school labels fade once everyone grows up.
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Cfo started humming a ringtone mid-tense budget meeting The room was silent. Tense. Numbers on the screen not looking great, everyone braced for a difficult stretch of conversation. Then someone's phone rang, loud, unmistakably Bollywood, cutting straight through the heaviness. And the CFO, mid-serious-discussion, started humming along. Not on purpose. Just reflexively, unconsciously, caught up in a melody he clearly knew well before catching himself. Everyone noticed. Nobody said a word about it. But the tension in that meeting genuinely dropped by half in that one small, unguarded moment. Sometimes a ringtone does more for a room than...
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Lost 8 lakh on a telegram tip, admin had already exited Back in 2017 there was this Telegram group, around 40,000 members. Nonstop "sure shot" calls, profit screenshots everywhere, that whole "guaranteed multibagger" energy. I fell for it completely. So much that I paid 15,000 to join their "VIP" tier, the one that supposedly gave you the premium calls. One call came through, delivered with total confidence. And for the first two days the stock genuinely doubled. I felt like a genius. Told myself the VIP fee had already paid for itself and now it was just easy money from here....
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My colleague’s “back monday” auto-reply was wrong for twelve straight days My colleague set an out-of-office reply that said "back Monday." Simple, clear, standard. Except that Monday came and went, and she wasn't back. So the leave got extended. Silently. And then extended again. And again. Three separate times, without the message ever being updated. So for days, anyone who emailed her got a cheerful, confident "back Monday" that had become increasingly, aggressively untrue. Which Monday? Nobody knew. The message committed to a Monday and simply let all the following Mondays pass without comment. The team eventually discovered she was back...
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My cousin mentioned her school has ac once and it’s haunted every family conversation since It came up exactly once, casually. My cousin let slip that her school has AC in every classroom. Mine, of course, does not — we run on ceiling fans that mostly just move the hot air around. Should've been a throwaway comment. It was not. That single mention has since embedded itself permanently into family conversations. Doesn't matter the topic — food, festivals, marks, weather, anything — somehow it circles back to the fact that her school has AC and mine doesn't. It's become a fixed reference point, a little...
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I pay my cousin’s tuition and let everyone believe it’s a scholarship Every semester my aunt tells the whole family she "somehow managed" the fees again. She didn't manage anything. It's me. I send it from a second bank account so my name never sits next to the transfer. My cousin thinks half of it comes from some scholarship. There's no scholarship. I made that up so he wouldn't feel like he owed anyone. The weird part is I don't even want to be thanked. What actually gets to me is watching my aunt apologize every single time she has to ask...
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My flatmate’s plant died of “too much love,” he’s applying the same to its replacement My flatmate's houseplant died. And he has a very specific explanation for this, one he's fully committed to: it wasn't neglect, it wasn't a missed watering schedule, it was "overwatering out of love." As if he cared for it so intensely that the sheer volume of his affection drowned it. The plant, for its part, disagreed. Silently. From beyond the grave. By being visibly, undeniably, browned-and-shriveled dead. The evidence is not on his side, but he tells the story with the conviction of a man who did nothing wrong. You'd...
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“recognition” email named 7 people, 1 hadn’t worked on it The reply-all email arrived with genuine warmth, naming seven people for their contribution to the project. Six of them had actually worked on it, put in real hours, earned the mention completely. The seventh had nothing to do with it. Not one task, not one meeting, nothing. Somehow still landed on the list, credited alongside everyone who'd actually built the thing. Nobody corrected the email. Not the manager who sent it, not any of the six who actually did the work. And the seventh person spent the entire week graciously...
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A “verified” community turned out to be a microcap pump-and-dump Back in 2022 I got added to what was presented as a "verified" trading community. It looked legit. Organized, confident, everyone sharing "research," the whole thing wrapped in a layer of credibility that made it easy to trust. It was a pump-and-dump group for microcap stocks. That's all it ever was. They'd coordinate everyone piling into some tiny stock, drive it up, and then the people running it would quietly exit at the top while the rest of us held the bag on the way down. I only figured this...
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Rode intc down almost 50% on pure loyalty to a company i grew up with bought INTC because I've used their chips since I was a kid. that was the thesis. that was the whole thesis. "I've trusted this brand my whole life, it's a legendary American company, it'll come back." pure sentimental loyalty, zero actual analysis. rode it down almost 50%. nostalgia held those shares the entire way, whispering "it's Intel, it can't stay down" while the fundamentals said otherwise and everyone else rotated into names that were, you know, actually executing. turns out childhood brand loyalty does not appear anywhere on a balance...
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I pretended to know english better than i do Work near Hawa Mahal in Jaipur where tourists stop and ask for directions almost daily without fail, usually manage well enough with basic phrases and hand gestures. A German couple once asked how to reach their hotel, and I understood maybe half of what they were actually saying but instead of admitting that, just confidently pointed them off somewhere down the road like I knew exactly where it was. Ten minutes later realized I'd mixed up two roads, actually ran after them through the crowd to apologize and showed the...
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Whole class claps whenever a tiffin drops in the corridor Somewhere along the way, a tradition emerged. Whenever someone drops their tiffin box loudly in the corridor, the entire class claps. Instantly. Automatically. Regardless of how minor or catastrophic the actual spill turns out to be. Nobody remembers who started this or when exactly it became a rule. It just exists now, fully established, applied consistently across every single tiffin-related incident. Everyone participates without exception, every single time, no debate, no hesitation. It has quietly become one of the few universally agreed-upon traditions our entire class actually shares, born entirely...
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Got drafted into the office “fun committee” without my consent and now i’m the cake guy There was no vote. No election. No moment where anyone asked, "hey, would you like to take on this responsibility?" I did not raise my hand. I did not submit an application. One ordinary day, I simply appeared in an email CC list, freshly labeled "fun committee." Fully formed. Reassigned by unseen forces. And with that title came the actual job: I am now in charge of ordering birthday cakes for the entire office. This is how it works, apparently. Corporate conscription. They don't recruit you to the fun committee,...
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25m, small community, big opinions about sunday brunch 25, based in Mumbai, working in finance. Parsi, 5'9", non-vegetarian, occasional drinker. My community is small enough that everyone genuinely does know everyone, which comes with its charms and its very specific pressures. It's a lovely thing to belong to, though it does mean privacy is more of an aspiration than a reality. For fun I love old Hindi cinema, reciting cricket statistics nobody asked for, and spending time in Irani cafes that are slowly disappearing, one by one. I feel a quiet urgency about them. Looking for someone 24-30,...
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My mother doesn’t know i call my father every sunday My parents divorced badly and haven't spoken properly in 14 years. My mother believes I have almost no relationship with my father because she assumes I chose her side. The truth is, I call him every Sunday morning. We talk about boring things: weather, work, cricket, his blood pressure, what he cooked. I hide it because I know my mother would feel betrayed, even though I'm an adult now. I love her and understand why she hates him, but he is still my father. Every Sunday after our call, I...
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Honeymoon auto-reply stayed on 3 extra weeks after he was back The out-of-office went up before the honeymoon, standard stuff, cheerful mention of being unreachable and back on a certain date. He came back exactly on schedule, resumed work, emails, meetings, everything normal. The auto-reply, however, stayed switched on for three extra weeks. Clients kept receiving it the entire time, cheerfully informed he was still unreachable while he sat right there, actively responding to their emails underneath it. Nobody on the team told him. Not out of malice, just pure comic momentum that nobody wanted to interrupt. It eventually became a...
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“phones strictly banned,” said right after checking her own The rule was delivered firmly. "Phones are strictly banned in this classroom." Clear, non-negotiable, said with real authority. And then, within the same class period, she checked a message on her own phone mid-lecture, barely pausing the lesson to do it. Nobody pointed this out directly. Not one hand raised, not one comment made out loud in the moment. Everyone noticed, though. Every single person in that room caught it instantly. The irony was fully, silently registered across the entire class, exchanged only through a few quick glances between desks,...
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The wedding band played the same 3 songs on loop and somehow everyone was fine with it my cousin's wedding, decent band, one small problem. they had like three songs total. that's it. and they just cycled through them all night on loop. by the fourth time the same dance number came on, something weird happened. half the wedding had involuntarily memorized the whole thing. same steps, same timing, everyone hitting the moves together like it was a school assembly drill we'd all rehearsed for weeks. nobody planned this. nobody said "guys let's all do the same choreography." it just assembled itself out of thin air, the...
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I was relieved when my best friend’s toxic relationship finally ended For two years I sat through the stories. "He's actually really sweet when you get to know him." "You just caught him on a bad day." I nodded. I said "mhm." I bit my tongue so hard I'm surprised it survived. I couldn't say what I really thought, because when you trash someone's partner, they remember it long after the breakup - and sometimes they go back to him and you're the villain. So I waited. And when it finally, mercifully ended, I made all the right sympathetic noises while...
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Explained margin trading to my 60-year-old uncle at a wedding, he asked “so it’s like taking a loan to gamble,” and i had genuinely no better way to put it Tried explaining margin trading to my 60-year-old uncle at a wedding last month. He listened, thought about it for a second, then asked, "So basically you're taking a loan to gamble?" I opened my mouth, closed it again. The wedding band got louder right then. After a long pause all I managed was, "Yeah... that's surprisingly close, actually." Years of YouTube explainers, and none of them put it as clearly as he did between the starters and the main course.
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A security guard at my office remembered something even i had forgotten I was rushing out of my office in Noida when the security guard stopped me near the gate. I assumed there was some issue with my access card, but he handed me my lunchbox. I had left it near the reception in the morning and completely forgotten about it. What surprised me was that he remembered exactly which employee it belonged to despite thousands of people entering that building every day.
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Electricity went off during my online interview Had an interview lined up with a Bengaluru based company while staying at my parents' place in Churu for a family visit that week. Everything was ready that morning, laptop fully charged, internet working fine, nothing seemed like it could realistically go wrong at that point. Five minutes into the call the electricity just went out entirely across the whole street, wifi dropped along with it instantly, screen froze mid-sentence. Ended up connecting through my phone hotspot standing outside the house trying to find a decent signal in the afternoon...
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She unmatched because i don’t drink After a week of genuinely good conversations, we finally discussed hobbies. She loved clubbing every weekend and asked what I usually drank. I told her I don't drink alcohol and usually prefer late-night drives or cafés instead. She replied, "I don't think our lifestyles match." Ten minutes later the conversation disappeared because she'd unmatched. For a while I wondered if I should've lied just to get a first date. Then I realized that would've only delayed the inevitable. Compatibility matters more than getting another match.
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Day trading btc futures on delta exchange between customer calls at my bpo job Don't even remember when "checking the chart real quick" turned into three tabs open during an actual customer escalation. My manager once asked, mid-call, why there was a candlestick chart open behind the ticket window. I said "research." He didn't buy it, obviously. Meanwhile my BTC futures on Delta are down 44%, and my performance review has a line that just says "needs to focus during calls," which we both know isn't really about the calls. Know at least twelve keyboard shortcuts. Zero self-control. That's basically my professional profile right...
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