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Virtual meetings are basically modern séances

The only real difference is that you don’t have full-grown adults speaking in a dead 8-year-old’s voice in virtual meetings. Well, at least not in any virtual meeting I’ve attended lately.

Joey deVilla

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  • I've only done one or two Zoom calls, but both times we all joked about it. Then again, we're all older sorts, so we're familiar with all the seance tropes. Do kids still do seances? Granted, some trackpads are so glitchy it is easy to believe that there is an entity from the other side screwing with them.

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