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Pretty sure the joke is aimed at cubesats

Healthy optimism

I'm either missing context, or the joke is going over my head

Not irrational. The "detail" in this style of comic is visual clutter that makes it actually significantly harder to see what's in the panel right away

Protests are very good at causing civil unrest, damaging public property, making other peoples days worse, and swaying their view further away from your cause

If any of those are your goal, they can be quite effective

To increase humanities control over its environment. The form that takes is a secondary concern

Let's be real here, it's the second one

For all intents and purposes it was free word

I haven't really used word in over half a decade since TeX beats it in every conceivable way.

Wordpad was useful in the sparse few cases where I was forced to open a .doc or .docx and couldn't be arsed to upload the file to Google docs

I guess it will be missed for that

Yes it does, his Dracula dad being random other things is the central premise of this series

Not everything that isn't ublock is automatically bad. Especially if you just want an adblocker and not also all the other stuff it comes with

Honestly, the best online resource I know of are the 3blue1brown videos on complex numbers

Any tool risks confusing you more, since multiplying in the complex plane can act quite unexpectedly when you move outside the real line for both parameters

Multiplying with q negative does genuinely correspond to a 180° rotation around the origin in the complex plane (plus a scalar multiplication of course)