Here’s two things I love love love about big Zoom conferences:<\/p>\n
You’re never forced to sit next to people who are talking and laughing with each other, distracting you while you’re trying to listen to the presentations. Whenever I tell them to shush they give me the look I once saw on Linda Blair’s face in “The Exorcist.” And they assume this mega-scowl for the duration of the session.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
The Q&A is usually written. Thus, we are no longer subjected to all of those “questions” that begin “I’ll keep this short,” but turn out to be five-minute speeches disguised as questions. I’ve never hurt another soul in my entire life, but I’ve come closest to violating that rule when these people won’t shut-the-fuck-up. And most of these fake questions are by people who look like they have no friends. There! I said it. OK, I’m done. I feel better<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s two things I love love love about big Zoom conferences: <\/p>\n
\n1. You’re never forced to sit next to people who are talking and laughing with each other, distracting you while you’re trying to listen to the presentations. Whenever I tell them to shush they give me the look I once saw on Linda Blair’s face in “The Exorcist.” And they assume this mega-scowl for the duration of the session.<\/p>\n
\n2. The Q&A is usually written. Thus, we are no longer subjected to all of those “questions” that begin “I’ll keep this short,” but turn out to be five-minute speeches disguised as questions. I’ve never hurt another soul in my entire life, but I’ve come closest to violating that rule when these people won’t shut-the-fuck-up. And most of these fake questions are by people who look like they don’t have any friends. There! I said it. OK, I’m done. I feel better now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6348,31,4010],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aggression-and-violence","category-communication","category-community-communication","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}