[epistasis]

> the discourse on hacker news has gotten very bad. why are we having this stupid conversation

On this we are agreed. But I can't parse any meaning out of the rest of your paragraph.

[doctorpangloss]

i don't know, it's not that complicated - https://gemini.google.com/share/084acb9a0d55 - funny enough, the chatbot can understand the transcript.