Just in case anyone is interested, he failed to specify that a,b are non zero in the little nod to Fermat’s last theorem, so it applies to every day x, just set a=0 b=x. I like to double down on pedantry when I come across it.

“We invented not being racist,” said the mouth piece, while implying all other Polynesians were even dumber than Europeans and these ones only get there by taking brain drugs.

Like that’s straight up racism, not even hidden while having they in there so he can say “Uh, akshually, if you read it carefully the smartest people of all aren’t racist, also it’s not racist to say things we all know are true and just don’t say.”

Is … is this “goth gf” wish fulfillment fic?

And I was almost enjoying myself until the ending, even if the setup was a bit on the nose.

That first story part, with the shipwreck guy, is another ‘hide your true powerlevel’ thing. Scott has a lot of those.

And yes the rest is more ‘we all know true things which we cannot say to be true as they are not politically correct (it might even be all of us)’ no wonder so many racists go ‘this is a community I feel safe in’.