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  • 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.








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    11 months ago

    A new monk arrived at the monastery. He was assigned to help the other monks in copying the old texts by hand. He noticed, however, that they were copying copies, not the original books. The new monk went to the head monk to ask him about this. He pointed out that if there were an error in the first copy, that error would be continued in all of the other copies.

    The head monk said, ‘We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son.’ The head monk went down into the cellar with one of the copies to check it against the original.

    Hours later, nobody had seen him, so one of the monks went downstairs to look for him. He heard a sobbing coming from the back of the cellar and found the old monk leaning over one of the original books, crying.

    He asked what was wrong.

    ‘The word is ‘celebrate,’ not ‘celibate’!’ sobbed the head monk.