She can still do it, from a safe distance.

Even the cat mostly behaves, which is a nice change.

(Yes,one of the main characters is a cat)

I kind of understand why they want to get rid of elections. It feels a bit futile with this crowd.

Or “overhead”, to use a technical term.

That sneaky bastard!

You mean they didn’t write a 900 page manifesto for the lulz?

The US nazis would have shown the way, but we’d do it to ourselves, yes.

Every time something terrible happens, we expect that at least we got to learn from the experience.

And then…

I didn’t. Last time I looked, it was still in the early stages.

And you don’t actually have to upgrade daily. I often wait a couple weeks or more and the machines don’t care one way or the other.

A buzzword being one with three syllables or more, I presume?

(Syllables are probably woke nowadays)