“It’s leet, not ‘elite’.”
“That’s nonsense, leet sounds like a leech’s foot!”
“I bet you’re thinking about the difference between leeches in the possession form and the plural.”
“I rule a continent, why the fuck would I care?” He said, as he began to think about it.
Others in the meeting considered interrupting to suggest using the phrase “practically rule” but in the end, couldn’t be bothered.
“See, this is what bothers me, our reputation. Some people, ok, a lot of people think that we’re some sort of narcissistic bunch of despots trying to kill off the human race!”
There was supposed to be laughter, but instead a stifled tiredness seemed to pervade.
“Well, I’m definitely not. Not sure about that guy, however.”
“I hope you’re not insinuating anything about my person. Because if you are, your mum.”
The British accent would have made this more funny but the voice disguising software killed it.
“It’s like the human race is getting killed off every day by natural causes and we’re pumping money into researching vaccines and they’re more afraid that it’s going to alter their DNA, and track their positions.”
Laughter reverberated through the speakers, causing a few crackles.
“It’s not like their phones are doing that already, and giving much more precise data at that. We really need this race to evolve.”
The sound of a cough meant we knew who was about to speak, as he had been complaining all week on social media. At least it was 99% sure it was him, but it could be just a ploy to encourage an assassination attempt.
“well, still, you know, a direct implant- “
“no, fellow anonymous brethren, just no. That will interfere with the instrumentality project. Humans need to evolve, they must evolve. Ustreum alles!”
They repeated the Latin in laggy unison. Surely this phrase had changed last week.
“Let’s move on, I would like to discuss a the proliferation of hs45-y at our next meeting.”
“oh god, what is it now, we managed 1%, is it not enough?”
“As long as there are streamers saying they don’t care about your problems, yes”
“Your problems? Have you seen the state of your social media platform?”
“it’s not mine, you must have confused me with someone else”
“then you won’t be upset when I declare that confidence in content has fallen by 20%”
“it’s just a blip. It’ll be back to normal next week, same old same old, I’ll, he”ll show you.”
“Can we get on with it please, the United Nations is convening in twenty minutes, we need to make sure everything goes as plan. Have all the payments been put in place?”
“Finland is being annoying as usual”
“It matters not, they’ll be outvoted. The next round of production will be approved. Deus ex Mattel Marvel! “
“hold on a minute, what did you say?”