burnt_toast [he/him]
The thing about it being super advanced math is it makes it easier to hide shit in it. Like those elliptic curves that NIST put out that people think have an NSA backdoor in them https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
Andor was nice in parts, I thought they portrayed the efficient evil of the Empire really well from a personal level and the uprising kicked ass. Wish there was more of SW from the people’s perspective, thought they might go there with the second sequel when they had that kid slave during the casino heist, but it didn’t go anywhere.
We had a friend chicken business in town that was putting up cooker conspiracy posters and placards for the antivax party during the worst of covid, I stopped going there immediately. Who knows what kind of other shit they thought was government overreach, like wearing gloves while cooking my food or something. Yuck.
I mean this happened to me on a lesser scale. My grandfather was petite bourgeois levels of rich and a massive asshole to everyone. He was a role model for me, just an overwhelmingly negative one. I learned early that money and even small amounts of power can turn you into a removed.