Actual alien: yeah this is quite common with calendars. They tend to have a lot of accumulated rules like that.
Twitter guy: oh damn, I was planning to do a humorous thread about how a super-rational alien civilisation would be surprised by it. :(
Twitter guy: oh damn, I was planning to do a humorous thread about how a super-rational alien civilisation would be surprised by it. :(
But yes, any advanced civilization would have stacks upon stacks of rules which contradict and complicate things. There's just no way around it.