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Is this satire? It has to be, right?

This reminds me of Bjarne Stroustrup's proposal on overloading whitespace, and around page 4 he suggested using the full Unicode character set:

This was an April Fool's joke:

I am not sure about the parent comment.

> I am not sure about the parent comment.

Starting with "a modest proposal" is a clear sign it is satire.