I'm with you, I think it's probably BS. But I suppose it could be taking highly compressed low resolution snapshots.

I had a pair of speakers (studio monitors) with rubberized plastic on them that did this. It was truly maddening. My guess is it's something plastic/rubber like that. Your phone case is a good suspect, have you taken it off the phone and inspected it inside and out?

As usual the problem is people will bitch about it... but then they will do it anyway. We always forget that voting by keeping our wallets closed is a powerful defense against bullshit like this.

Reads like some LinkedIn posts I've seen.

Techmoan has entered the chat.

I've been acquired by two different cats in variations of this scam.

That mental image is gold. And yeah, corporate raiders suck.

Sometimes humor is hard to explain. This sketch probably struck some chord with a fad for "random" things at the time, and maybe hasn't aged very well.

While the internet was of course influential in 2016, my recollection is that people weren't nearly as jaded and cynical as they are now in the post-truth, post-pandemic world.

We're constantly bombarded with memes, jokes, and other distractions...so perhaps people are not so easily amused now as they were almost a decade ago.

However, I do remember some folks being confused, annoyed, and unimpressed with it back then, too. But enough people were tickled by it to want to share it with everyone. And I do think Hanks brings a certain bizarre charm to it that not many comedians can pull off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Qasem_Soleimani

Any job working for a PBM (pharmacy benefit manager). Completely unnecessary third party parasites that drive up health care costs.

The article which was removed for misinformation got me curious. So I finally downloaded and installed LibreWolf (which is Firefox under the hood). After using it for full day I really like it so far. Another user (thanks, @RustyNova@lemmy.world ) gave me some good tips to pay attention to the two icons to the left of the URL bar, which was very helpful.

I would love to know how many civil servants plan on voting for MAGA. I would like to think it's a teeny tiny percentage...but I'd probably be disappointed to learn that it's not.