>Stuff like how you were calling into question the parent's perception of what the NSA does with "electrical signals" coming from their house. I got the impression that you were framing the parent as a crackpot. It's just ... there's better ways of making your points than to call people out like that, whether they really are a crackpot or (most likely) NOT.

I don't see how this frames anyone as a crackpot. Collecting electrical signals is exactly one of the things the NSA does, and there aren't many other simpler ways to describe it.

Even General Hayden talks publicly about such collections and how he would "jump on the comms of anyone that is interesting" (may be a very slight paraphrasing).

>And you have no empathy for the parent, which is a bummer.

It would be hilarious everytime someone says something like this, if it didn't indicate that someone out there actually believes things like this. You are really judging someone's empathy through text on HN and claiming they lack it?

Even just responding to someone's post is an act of some empathy.