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Re:US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification by Jamesbeam on Friday April 17, 2026 @09:04AM (#47805496)
I got a house with a 25-year roof, an indestructible Japanese shitbox car I can repair myself from scrap if I have to, and enough in the bank at three to five percent to pay my taxes, all of my hobbies, eating steak every day if I wanted and my share of the universal multi-payer health care system in my country.

That puts me for the rest of my life at a level of fuck you.

And if the system breaks down, I’m just going to hunt and eat you. How big do you think your chance of survival is meeting someone hungry who spent over a decade in war and conflict zones and is still here?

I’m more concerned about the future for your sake than for mine.

Re:US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification by ranger_danger on Friday April 17, 2026 @12:00PM (#47807365)
Breathtaking entitlement, self-righteousness, and arrogance.

Arrogance is usually a defense mechanism that you can't fix with logic... people use it to shield themselves from their own insecurities so they don't feel inadequate or threatened.

If you can't see your own flaws, you can't understand why others don't like your behavior.

"As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding."

Re:US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification by Jamesbeam on Friday April 17, 2026 @12:58PM (#47808008)
> Breathtaking entitlement, self-righteousness, and arrogance.

Oh stop it. You’re breathtaking!

Re:US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification by loloquwowndueo on Friday April 17, 2026 @01:25PM (#47808353)
Haha I think he was just being humorous, expletives notwithstanding.

Know what gave it away?

> enough in the bank at three to five percent

I mean lol if he’s expecting banks to be around in a societal collapse situation he’s got another thing coming, wonder how the shitbox car will do when fuel runs out in 8 weeks worldwide. Mad max baby!

Re:US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification by minton on Friday April 17, 2026 @09:48AM (#47805926)
Digital currency can help control you. Imagine negative inflation based on your social score.
Re:US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification by Jamesbeam on Friday April 17, 2026 @09:59AM (#47806031)
Social score is for communists and autocratic regimes, minton. I live in a democra…

Wait, 27% for the right-wing extremists in Germany? The strongest party if there were elections today? Some of them publicly state they are the friendly faces of facism?

Oh, oh. I’m in danger.

Re:US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification by alphawhisky on Friday April 17, 2026 @09:25AM (#47805675)
Cannibalism threats on HN - is this a recession indicator?
Re:US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification by nekusar on Friday April 17, 2026 @10:18AM (#47806215)
To be fair, people who eat ultraprocessed foods are basically human wagyu.

https://health.yahoo.com/wellness/nutrition/articles/ultrapr...

Re:US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification by Jamesbeam on Friday April 17, 2026 @09:31AM (#47805751)
It’s conditional cannibalism Sir. That’s a difference.

Oh, AGI can turn everyone into matchsticks, but when I talk about turning humans into tasty sausage the internet goes wild.

It’s obviously sarcasm, just for the neurodivergent talent in here panic buying cannibalism safe bunkers now.

/s

Re:US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification by alphawhisky on Friday April 17, 2026 @09:34AM (#47805790)
Oh, you're german? Man, here I was worried you had crazy plus guns. Just crazy.

I'm adapted to the American diet, so I'm sure that they'll cover my nutritional needs.

Let's stay on opposite sides of the pond like Godzilla and King Kong.

Re:US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification by Jamesbeam on Friday April 17, 2026 @09:52AM (#47805967)
Jokes on you. I have a Waffenbesitzkarte.

I like you whisky.

That’s a deal I can get behind.

I will send your administration a request to put your statue on top of the Arc de Trump. If they can pay 400 million for a ballroom, they can spend one for a diamond statue of the man that saved a lot of American lives today.

True heroes don’t always wear capes. Sometimes they have butcher knife’s.

Re:US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification by loloquwowndueo on Friday April 17, 2026 @01:22PM (#47808317)
Hahah calm down man. Google for “daddy chill meme”.
Re:US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification by wafflemaker on Friday April 17, 2026 @04:57PM (#47810482)
Reading this made me think of the 4chan Navy Seals copypasta about a top of the class navy seals trained in gorilla warfare, the best sniper in the whole US marine corps.

https://dailydot.com/navy-seal-copypasta