1) I re-read that thread and realized that person was talking about ship traffic. Of course the analogy isn't great because of course yea that "road" is closed but roads are generally open. I thought they were talking about actual car traffic as a comment about gas prices.

2) Friendly advice but HN tends to skew one direction politically at least when it comes to this Iran war, but you are going to in fact find folks such as myself who disagree with you and others and voice good arguments in those disagreements. I'm an actual person, and I can tell you that for a fact and Dang will also tell you that because he's in the past emailed me directly and warned me about engaging in flame wars on the site, which I am earnestly trying to do while engaging in debate and discussion. I enjoy debating and discussing these topics, and using an LLM wouldn't serve any purpose for me. The fun is in the debate, and so if an LLM was doing that for me, I'd just not engage.

Really, trying to be friendly here but it's probably not great if you just suspect people who disagree with you to be bots. I was incredibly confused when you (I think?) called me an LLM, hence the "Are you an LLM?" question/statement.