Well. Imagine we're talking 1920s, Trotsky, plants and steamers and autarky.
In this paradigm having plants able to assemble something is necessary. Even if on dotations.
Because you need plants that can be repurposed to, I dunno, assemble lots of FPV drones or something.
Also iPhones and such are too complex, but something useful they might be able to produce in the USA.
I’m not a big enough SW fan in general to spend my precious little reading time on SW comics and books.
Yeah, well, your first paragraph reads so impressed that I'm certain you haven't read at least X-Wing books (all my favorite, Stackpole's ones are sometimes too comfortable, Allston's ones are sometimes cringe in technical and logical regards), the Thrawn trilogy (the part of the EU usually recommended first) and the Death Star (to compare the old and the new). I liked Andor, once again, and I would like it without Disney's dark years, but those things were very good and deep too.
I’m sure there’s lots of merit in them, but not for me when there’s so much else to read in far more interesting universes.
To each their own.
Prequels are weird, not bad. What people criticize about them can be said about Babylon V even more, but I haven't seen many people calling it a bad show.
I'm not impartial - I've grown on "prequel EU" as much as on "original EU", but started with the former, trying to really interpret Jedi philosophy and such. My brain is not agile enough to separate pieces of EU and their closest movies by now.
But there's that moment that with prequels the EU and the movies were being created simultaneously, there were official layers of canon and Lucas himself would even refer to EU. So - I don't know. Maybe as self-contained movies they are bad. Their aesthetic gave me a lot, their emotion feels more real than Andor's second season (its first season is better though), their music.
With more automation wouldn't it possibly cost less than this? On Taiwan the balance between automation and human labor is due to their costs of labor and automation.
In any case more expensive than on Taiwan, though.
If US cost of labor drops sharply due to a few bubbles exploding, or a few nukes explode somewhere causing harm to world economy, then having such plants already in place might be retrospectively considered a wise decision.
Consumer hardware is now being used in wars on scale, changing all balances. So I think everybody is going to do what Trump is doing. Keep complex processes inside if they have the knowledge and ability, and try to gain knowledge and ability if they don't.
I don't think it's bad. Socialists will finally see a situation which their ideology fits best. Industrial specialties, even worker-level ones, teach people to think in a way making idiotic websites in some modern framework doesn't.
All that, of course, is sometime after the hellish hell we're going to see making us work to achieve it.
Dunno, the languages seemed AI-generated based on French and German, or something like that.
Would make them similar to Mando'a, so no complaints, not the first time in Star Wars.
But - for me it's good because it resembles the old EU.
So if you have little acquaintance with the old EU and liked Andor - I recommend delving into it.
Eh, we've had books involving characters like Mon Mothma, Garm Bel Iblis, Wedge Antilles, Tycho Selchu, Korran Horn and many others. We've also had comic books. We've had the "Death Star" novel, the previous version, so to say, of how those plans got out initially. The EU path involved a few hops at each of which the rebels were barely able to slip it further, with a few very lucky coincidences. Ending in the transmission to Tantive IV. Except the Rogue one moment with Vader literally having seen the ship and tried to board it, IIRC, was kinda inconsistent with how they talk in the 1977 movie, as if it's still perfectly plausible that Tantive IV has nothing to do with the plans.
I appreciate Rogue One for trying to tread the same path, leading to a good story and maybe more good stories with the same approach, but its not the first on it.
KotOR II is mature. Last of the Jedi books are mature. X-Wing books ... vary, some are very stupid, but some are very good.
SW EU is kinda big, words like "best" shouldn't be thrown lightly.
But yes, even with the old stuff being so burnt into my brain I can't be impartial, I accept Andor is real Star Wars and it's good.
It's obviously inspired by quite a few EU books and comics. Which are not worse.
(One thing I like about it, it manages to pretend Disney sequels just didn't happen, and makes looking directly at Disney SW things optional. And makes a lot of EU references.)
Maybe if you mean on screen, then yes. I still think it's not better than 1977 and 1980.
I agree, but sometimes one can encounter trekkies and other dubious types pretending it's better than prequels or even OT, that is too much.
BTW, I want an unpopular advice - where to you legally get these shows as seamlessly as torrenting?
Suppose I'm a Linux or FreeBSD user, and don't like too many steps being required due to being autistic and thus easily irritated.
Because with Andor specifically would really want to pay for it.
You hear the sound of your own brain asking for fuel to actually function.
I mean, easily catching fire is a thing since German tanks in WWII, so yes.