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I don't think he wants to fight the alphabet soup, I think he wants to watch the alphabet soup.

Why not, after you clicked on a post in a piracy community?

Are you interested in proving me wrong, or figuring out the right answer? If you actually read that article instead of just the title, you would have noticed at the end it says

This leads us to say a few words about the widely held opinion that, because complex numbers are fundamental to quantum mechanics, it is desirable to "complexify" every bit of physics, including spacetime itself. It will be apparent that we disagree with this view, and hope earnestly that it is quite wrong, and that complex numbers (as mystical uninterpreted scalars) will prove to be unnecessary even in quantum mechanics

They literally say that "complex numbers are fundamental to quantum mechanics". In other fields of physics complex numbers are just a convenient tool, but in quantum mechanics they are(as far as we know) fundamental, even if the author hopes that to be proved wrong at some point.

You seem like you know a bit about alternatives to complex numbers in other areas of physics, so it would be interesting to have a further conversation, as long as you stop being so defensive.

Complex numbers seem to be used either as 2d vectors or as representation of waves/circles in exponentials, is there an alternative that combines both of those uses?

Nope, you're just wrong. Quantum mechanics without complex numbers(real quantum theory) is less predictive than complex(regular) quantum theory. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-physics-falls-apart-without-imaginary-numbers/

True, but singular they is undeniably clunky. Unfortunately it's the best we have, so we will have to get used to it. Opposition to the natural evolution of language has never worked.

We aren't saying that they should be driving, quite the opposite. We're saying that it's completely fucked that in some places you have to drive to participate in society, precisely because many people shouldn't. There needs to be alternatives to driving so that law enforcement can remove anyone's license without effectively placing them in house arrest.

Since I don't know how well their manipulation works

I do. It works really fucking well. $900 billion per year well.

Quantum mechanics, as far as we know, requires imaginary numbers.

They're all pretty equivalent stock Android with a few extra customization options. I've usually ended up on CRdroid. Havoc comes with a bit of bloatware which may or may not be what you want.

Why would a fat person be unable to recline?

Recline yourself. It's literally the only solution. Once one person reclines, everyone has to.

Recline yourself. It's literally the only solution. Once one person reclines, everyone has to.