"I hope the Chinese aren't collating the Ashley Madison data with their handy federal list of every American with a security clearance."

[shaddack]

@churba

Oh, you’re getting emotional, so you lose, I win, neener neener neener?

Getting emotional is generally not a good idea. It makes you way more prone to making mistakes, and then getting even more upset.

[PhasmaFelis]

@MrSneakyMan

That doesn’t change the fact that you are making up scenarios to fit how you want to feel about this. Point of fact: the situation you described where an abused person in a terrible marriage was going to AM for help is laughable. Improbable in the extreme. You are making things up to fit your view.

Okay, leave out the abuse scenario if you don’t like it. My other examples still apply.

My only point was that some of the people hurt by this won’t deserve it. Why does that make you so angry?

[PhasmaFelis]

@churba

That depends - Would it bother you less if I described it in a more flowery way, rather than being blunt?

How about if you just didn’t automatically assume that I’m arguing in bad faith and start insulting me?

I was under the impression that you had to provide a credit card to get an Ashley Madison account, and therefore all of the dumped accounts would include CC info. Apparently I was misinformed about some part of that. I’m not particularly invested in it, and I’m happy to admit I was mistaken. If you’d left off that last bit, I would have just said “oh, I guess you’re right” and that would be that.