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@gaditb

"words with ambition of being doggerel"?

"doggerel" is a fun word and useful if you have said "slop" a few too many times. See also "corporate treacle"

@jadp

It's really fancy in NYC and you have to go to a fancy grocery to find it.

Worth it for a nice treat though. It really does taste better IMO.

@CStamp

Correction: The first laws were to stop a tuberculosis outbreak. It was effective. This was when milk additives were a problem and the food was just... dangerous.

later...

There was a law that made raw millk illegal to sell over state lines, but that came long long after people had already stopped buying "cream top" milks and only impacted a few people who have been mad about it ever since.

@platypus

I do not get that not wanting pasteurization. Have these people ever seen a cow?

@superflippy

excuse me finding WHAT.

is that like "jiggery pokery" ?

ok ok ok I'll look it up.

Pasteurization isn't the problem. It's *homogenization* (and maybe "ultra" pasteurization too.)

But, you will not find people passionate about their hate for homogenized milk. Homogenized milk just "looks better" and you can more easily find probably dangerous unpasteurized milk than nonhomogenized.

Anyway, you don't need "raw" milk to make clotted cream. Just "cream top" with regular pasteurization. 2/2

Excerpt from: How Dairy Shaped the US Psyche

There is no clotted cream in the US. Much like "The Mammoth Cheese" I think this is one of the things that makes this country... different.

If you ask "why is there no clotted cream?" people will say "because they made raw milk ILLEGAL" and get all upset and make up conspiracies, but... this never made sense to me.

Mammoth Cheese Theory:
https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/115851125502519956

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@apophis

Well I feel that there is a logic to:

▷
□
■
▣

But, beyond the triangle I think you can reorder the other three.

@apophis

I gave you some ASCII for extra safety.

@leon_p_smith @johncarlosbaez

I wonder if putting it in an addition table format might make it easier?

I've been wanting to do some symmetry group stuff. Bookmarking this for summer. I'd need to play around a lot to see if I can find a simple angle.

@apophis

This looks scary:

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@apophis

What symbols do you like I can do find replace?

@mason

Funny you should mention that.

@leadore

Works!

@xarvos

There is more than one valid solution.

@CaptMorgan

This is great for students who have strong algebra. But that idea of using increasing powers? It's really not obvious that's what's going on when you first start.

But could one do something with... physical cubes and literal flat squares? That's Cuisenaire rods for decimal.

Are there... base 16 Cuisenaire rods? Why not? hmm....

@hypolite @lapis

Zero makes record keeping nicer and when you start using place value (as cuneiform does) to get more out of your limited symbol set ... zero make things less ambiguous.

One needs a way to show which place the symbol lives in even if you don't have everything written in neat columns.

@mcc

This works IMO.

@MxSpoon

Ok what if I tell you

▷ is first

WRONG: □▷▷ is last

RIGHT: □□▣ is last

I think that narrows down the valid solutions a lot.

I apologize. I gave an unhelpful hint here. It's late.

(I glanced over at the incorrect list.)