I was playing on a MUD (early mmorpg thing by telnet) in 1994 and the creator wanted some of the core players to make characters as part of the plot. The game never went anywhere after that (it was called Kaspelheim) but the character I made was Pronell Mordini, perrin (otterlike humanoids) trademaster.

I just kept using the name online since then. It’s never taken. But someone else did get pronell@gmail.com.

Okay.

Make that argument in court.

I know there are lots of people who disagree with me. I’m okay with that. But I’m also in no position to make a difference here.

What he did wasn’t publishing. He dumped sensitive data. In my opinion.

It’s just silly to think he doesn’t have to deal with the trial. If he is innocent, let the fucking system decide that.

I can think that Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, and Julian Assange did brave things and still think they should stand trial.

In Assange’s case I think he went way way too far, but was still brave.

I’m mostly annoyed by all this yammering that there is one true opinion here and that everyone else is deluded, as if this wasn’t a huge event with ongoing consequences.

Nuance is important if you’re gonna understand anyone’s viewpoints.

Then he should be found innocent rather than hide away for a decade.

People fucking died because of the information he just dumped out there. But no, we are not allowed differences of opinion.

This isn’t supposed to be an echo chamber!

You think I’m wrong then convince me, don’t insult me. If you think the First Amendment applies to dumping government files… make that argument in court and good luck, but don’t fucking condescend to me in an internet forum.

Then leave. Nobody is forcing you to continually steep yourself in the wrong viewpoints.

I personally don’t think he’s a rapist but I do think he needs to be in prison for dumping all that classified material.

If that makes me brain dead, I don’t want any part of what you consider dialogue.

So I assume this attack was reported by the perpetrators, as spam on Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit are far far worse problems.

Well my first computer was an Apple IIe, so yes. And I still prefer command line interfaces, even if they’re in a GUI environment.

But I suppose that was a rhetorical question…

My old person trait is that I’m unreasonably annoyed by people who don’t write in full, correct, complete sentences, punctuation and grammar included.

Something interesting I’ve found is that people use ‘lol’ to show disinterest or mock the person they’re replying to, not to show amusement. And that’s not the kind of person I really want to engage with.