Please comment civilly and substantively or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Welcome to the real world" - I know, right! Though I should point out that this is my first post on this thread, so I'm not the people you were talking to earlier. Perhaps they have reasons you'd like better.

And I still think it's a crying shame to flush science, research and education in this country down the toilet just for the sake of waving two fingers at some unknown bureaucrats and uncaring politicians, whether I get paid or not.