I read it as sarcasm, but I guess you can't tell these days. (Where these days is at least 20 years)

You won't buy such a cable twice because it will burn down your house and risk killing you, hence, you're not buying it a second time as a dead person. Obviously no flaws in that logic.

Poe's Law in action.

Not the guy you replied to, but I downvoted that comment because I find sarcastic strawmans to be tiring and don't add to discussion.

I disagree with this. A comment like this can provide some amusement and joy, as well as legitimate criticism of people who unironically hold similar beliefs to the one parodied.

I know the HN guidelines have had a "no joke" recommendation but it seems rather humorless (obviously) and can deny some form of humanity, the latter of which is rather unreasonable.

>I disagree with this. A comment like this can provide some amusement and joy

Maybe you still get a chuckle, but after the same tired strawmans get posted over and over again it gets annoying, similar to all the low effort comments on reddit like "username checks out", "RIP my inbox", "came here to say this", or any number of the common copypastas.

>as well as legitimate criticism of people who unironically hold similar beliefs to the one parodied.

Strawmans are not "legitimate criticism".

I assume this is sarcasm. But obviously this country has gone so far off the deep end that you can no longer tell.

The number of people who literally believe we should not regulate things like this is staggering.