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i miss when the law was trying to seem serious

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[–] 87 points 7 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 44 points 7 months ago

    I don’t see a call to fork(), so there’s clearly no child here.

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  • [+] 38 points 7 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)
    def verify_age(u: User) -> bool:
        return hasattr(u, "age") and u.age is not None
    
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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago
    [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    "I fear no man. But that thing, it scares me."

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    There's only one thing worse than a rapist

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  • [+] -13 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    Anything under 25 should be considered a child.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Anyone > 65 should be considered senile until proven different. After all, it's not kids that get scammed out of their retirement funds.

    That's not my opinion, but it might lead to changes.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Kids don't have retirement funds. If they did, and they had free access to them, they would definitely get scammed out of them.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    The reason that 25 number came up is that's how old the cohort they were studying brain development got when their funding was cut. There's no reason to not believe brains continue developing all our lives, or that even if that study did find a "cut off point" that it would be the same from person to person.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    sure, not like people under 25 need to work, pay rent, take care of their own finances and responsibilities, or anything. we’re all just kids living with our parents and when we turn 25, we magically become adults! oh, wait…

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    I just find the arbitrary line drawn at 18 to be ridiculous. So, the second you turn 18 you magically become an adult. OK.

    And now it's time to judge societies that decide 16 means adult, or 20 means adult, or 25 means adult.

    Was it the US that just decided for us that "18 means your adult"? Why should they get to decide that? Based on what criteria?

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