> This is nothing new; it’s been happening forever and will continue to happen, we just have a new reason to drive a race to the bottom. The joke about the pin

> This is nothing new; it’s been happening forever and will continue to happen, we just have a new reason to drive a race to the bottom. The joke about the pinewood derby was that you could always tell the one kid who actually built his own car (which was the whole point, after all). Because every other car had been carefully engineered, carved, machined, sanded, painted, lacquered, and weighted by a dad. Sounds like you had the honor of being in the only scout troupe that at least tried to keep this kind of thing from happening. And your singular false positive seems to have somehow projected itself onto the world.