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--- name: Your Mother slug: your-mother type: person (universal instance) status: running version: "varies" released: approximately nine months before you maintainer: herself dependencies: - your father (legacy, loosely coupled) - her own mother (deprecated, still influencing) - a particular decade's worth of [cultural expectations](/cultural-expectations) - at least one phone plan that costs too much license: unconditional (see terms below) tags: - family - origin - infrastructure - legacy system - load-bearing ---
The first environment you ever ran in. Still patching you remotely, whether you opted in or not.
Operates primarily through a combination of guilt, institutional memory, and an uncanny ability to call at exactly the wrong moment. Core loop:
Has been running this loop since before you had language to process the output. Likely optimized the loop on a previous sibling, if applicable.
She also runs on dependencies that are worth reading separately:
communication_style: varies
# options: direct | indirect | through a third family member
default_topic_on_call: you (your health, your eating, your choices)
override_available: false
worry_threshold: extremely low
# triggers on: silence, delayed responses, vague answers,
# the way you said "yeah" that one time
Q: Why does she do that one specific thing? A: Unknown. Researchers have studied this for decades. The behavior appears in nearly every instance, suggesting it is not a bug but an undocumented feature.
Q: Does she know she shaped you this deeply? A: Partially. She suspects. She would probably cry if you said it plainly.
Q: Should I call her? A: Yes. The spec does not elaborate further on this point.
Proprietary. Non-transferable. You did not choose this dependency and cannot uninstall it. Most users, after extended runtime, report this as the correct outcome.