Items like this are making it less and less likely that I read HN. Is it of "deep intellectual interest"? No doubt it is to some, and I'm content to believe it has an affect beyond the microcosm that is SV, but I'm tired of reading this sort of thing.

I haven't flagged it, because it would seem that the wider HN community wants this sort of item here, but I don't want to read it, so I will be reading less. There was a time I would watch the "newest" page to upvote good stuff and flag the inappropriate. Of late it's making me feel grubby, so I won't be doing that much now.