And [under the hood](https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/8ac8eb66c19d352dde548fc5c9a632ffbb586abe/activerecord/lib/active_record/persistence.rb#L276), `update_columns` is doing the same thing I am here. Although it wouldn't hurt to throw in a call to `unscoped` like they do. I'll do that now.