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i wish the people making buildings around here knew that. some start at floor 3, others at 5. some start at 0. others at 2. every building has its own story. you need to understand the building before you can understand your position in it.

do you also have minced tables there?

just like the blue shells in mario cart

what if they called it the wall of shame instead

i would try it. i like strawberries and i like pasta, so why not

he’s in a better place now

another chicken and egg problem

yeah it sucks

people can’t be in two places at once

gone but not forgotten….

is this where ketchup comes from?

the name seems to be an unfortunate choice that stems from their historical usage as “a means to an end”. i.e, they were first used as part of a method to find some solutions to cubic equations. this method would require algebraic manipulations of complex numbers, but the ultimate goal was to discover a real root. the complex roots would be discarded once a real root was found (if it existed).

the wikipedia article attributes the name to Descartes:

… sometimes only imaginary, that is one can imagine as many as I said in each equation, but sometimes there exists no quantity that matches that which we imagine.

which i think helps to highlight how skeptical the people at that time were about the existence of the “imaginary” numbers.

source: memories of my first complex analysis class, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_number#History

i’d strongly recommend reading the history section of that wikipedia page to anyone interested in the topic, it has some pretty fun history

these are not arguments. they are beliefs/opinions

you also can’t drive it on the roads too much or else the tires will go bad

it’s rough when the math gets so complicated that you have to break your finger in order to be able to visualize things

There is also the hilariously misguided belief that good coders do not produce bugs so there's no need for debugging.

i’m terrified of people who think this way. my experience has been that they are much less inclined to check for bugs in their code and tend to produce much buggier code

could not be me in the second frame

libertarians are conservatives with even worse critical thinking skills.

most conservative arguments fall apart when you ask 3 consecutive questions, but it only takes 1 or 2 questions for the typical libertarian argument

how are the new doctors made?

before and after if they were born women, and only in the asylum if they were born men