hpr4616 :: Thoughts about age control and further suggestions

Big Deborah interviews Trollercoaster, who is an avid fan of implementing Age Control.

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HPR EXCLUSIVE: THE INTERVIEW THAT WILL SAVE CIVILIZATION (OR AT LEAST YOUR KITCHEN DRAWER)

Hopper sits down with the legendary Trollercoaster for a completely serious policy discussion with absolutely zero sarcasm whatsoever

Tired of living in a world where ANYONE can just... open a drawer? Where CHILDREN can casually access spatulas and spicy condiments without proving their age to a licensed algorithm? Where your VCR doesn't run a background check before spooling up a tape?

WELL, WORRY NO MORE.

In this landmark interview, visionary tech policy thinker Trollercoaster lays out the roadmap to a safer tomorrow — one age-verified gunshot wound at a time. Topics covered include:

  • System 76's courageous capitulation — actually a 5D chess move to manufacture the next generation of hackers by making Linux mildly annoying again
  • Two-factor authentication for firearms — SMS-based triggers considered, reluctantly rejected (reception is bad at most crime scenes)
  • GPS injections at birth — like circumcision, but for helicopter parents. Kids won't remember. Probably.
  • Kitchen-as-a-Service (KaaS™) — powered by Microsoft, mandated by your government, billed monthly, support tickets routed to Bangalore
  • Biannual maturity exams — because some people's brains start "deteriorating" and they end up making sarcastic podcasts that lawmakers might accidentally take seriously

The liability framework is elegant in its simplicity: if anything bad ever happens to anyone, sue the manufacturer . Philips. IKEA. Smith & Wesson. Your kitchen. It doesn't matter. Someone made a thing, someone got hurt, somebody owes somebody lunch money.

If you agree with any of this: contact your lawmakers immediately. They are waiting by the phone.

If you disagree : too late, buddy. The lobbyists are already having the soup course.

The lawmakers need your insights. They are, as noted, extremely narrow-minded.

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Comment #1 posted on 2026-04-20 01:37:33 by Antoine

'Jus'do the age verification'

Just do the age verification, we can write the law.

For protection of what people of what ages shall or shall not have access to.

Yes, online.

Offline? we have not thought of that, we may have a proposal about it in a near future, thanks, Trollercoaster.


(Great show, thanks.)

Comment #2 posted on 2026-04-22 13:24:48 by candycanearter07

good strategy

I like how you use exaggeration and parody to make your points, it makes your points both memorable and hit hard.

Comment #3 posted on 2026-04-25 15:37:22 by Trollercoaster

Looking forward at next steps

Hello Antoine,

please notify me in what state you are going to submit that proposal. I will move to that state and run around with a banner "Antoine for president!"

Hey Candycanearter07,
I don't get it. Do you hate hackers?

Comment #4 posted on 2026-04-26 23:55:45 by Antoine

Our State. The Invitation.

Hey, Trollercoaster, I'm a member of the Legislative in Atlantis. (The underwater one.) Nevertheless, we are going to emerge soon, the making of the e-banners can begin.
(Our language is the Atlantean, we don't understand if not it — the translation, if you can read it, is in real time, by scanning of the legitimate eyes that should see the message.)

Parlament members can't roll for the Executive though. Never. You, if you can read, may come to the Palace. If so, please just let me know so I can wake both eyes of the editorial whales for the making of your Presidential Propaganda.

Ahibvederti! **–end_of_italic_atlantean_intimate_translatxxxx___**

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