Published Oct 16, 2024

(In case anyone else was confused by the timing of this.)

If you’d read the article, you’d know that the author isn’t suggesting that.

“Family first” is unidirectional. Parents put their kids first. That’s the job. I signed up for it, and I’m going to prioritize then as much as I can.

It’s satire. The author is pointing out how morally reprehensible it is, using irony.

The text is only fucked the the way that The Onion sticks are fucked: this is only labeled satire because of the tone of the article. The content is as true as “real” news.

The actual “fucked” content is that the author was correct, and that the wealthy benefit from hunger and the threat of starvation to maintain access to abundant cheap labour.

Thoroughly explained and well supported. I want to save this in case this topic ever comes up again so I can copy-pasta this.

I like base 12 a lot, but Reverse Polish Notation is a mess when you get up to working with polynomials.

With polynomials, you’re moving around terms on either side of an equation, and you combine positive terms and negative terms. In essence, there’s no such thing as subtraction. (Similarly, division is a lie; you’re actually just working with numerators and denominators.)

Reverse Polish Notation makes that a mess since it separates the sign from its term.

Also, RPN draws a distinction between negative values and subtraction, but conceptually there is no subtraction with polynomials, it’s all just negative terms. (Or negating a polynomial to get its additive inverse.)

But, yeah. It’s a shame we don’t use base 12 more.