Remove comments indicator from post-meta?

the

<aside class="post-meta"

contains an LI for comments information. Is there a way to completely remove that?

I know I can remove it’s display via CSS, but I’d like to just remove it entirely. Perhaps there’s something similar to how I removed the Gravatar image from the header, via

add_filter( 'highwind_header_gravatar', '__return_false' );

in my child theme?