@lindsey @byorgey That was a wonderful message.

There's an analogy I like. McDonald's is "inevitable" and "here to stay" but that doesn't mean I'm going to eat there.

The analogy can go further:

McDonald's makes stuff shaped like food, and the materials they use could have been real food if prepared with love and care, but instead it's slop and it will harm you if you eat it.

McDonald's turns people who might have been chefs into food assembly-line workers. But man, they can crank out a lot of lines of slop.

McDonald's takes their profits and uses them to support demonstrably evil people doing demonstrably evil things.

And much like what we see in the bubble engines, McDonald's formulates their stuff to be addictive. They use salt, fat, and sugar where the tech fad du jour uses reinforcement loops. They're both wielding dopamine to capture us.

I feel like we'll get through this. Teachers sending messages like that one are going to be an important part of it.