There is 4 part series on HBO with same name ( I think). I watched it last year. Learned a lot from business to personal life.

First thing one need is herd mentality.

Well, you got authentic experience that most of us only get to see on Hallmark TV :)

I'm sure it will be called Systems Programing . Because Rust.

Agreed. That nowadays people or even big companies find it outside their core competency to host their blog, have atom/RSS feeds is not because big tech killing it.

Last time it was VW bringing it back, then Mazda bringing it back, and so on. Also luxury cars will not use touch controls, thats only for cheap cars.

It appears wishful thinking that physical buttons are coming back. This would be an idea whose time has gone. It does not even matter companies that physical buttons are better, or they can offer as choice (at higher price) if someone wanted.

Like remote working, office cubicles, fast and lightweight websites, ad-free content, one time purchase software incentives of all parties are aligned against people who bear cost of these decisions. So I do not expect this to change.

But VW are bringing them back? The ID.Polo (seems like they dropped the Playstation style incrementing number for the old brand names) is the first of their new electric range with physical buttons for windows, climate, etc.

Basically the door and centre console have them back. Along with a touchscreen of course.

The VW ID.4 also seems like a gaming console. The steering wheel is full of capacitive buttons, you never know what you might accidentally activate or adjust.

If you just want to drive it's a really nice car, but the overuse of capacitive buttons on the steering wheel and key fob really lets the rest of the car down. The key fob is easily worse than that of a 2012 Renault.

Assuming that VW is returning to buttons, I can assure you that it was not for the 2025 models.

When did Mazda get rid of buttons? They always provide both choices no? Touchscreen and the dial (which I love). Temperature controls are also physical.

Except for the new 2026 models. I think those removed physical buttons

I think you answered your own question. 2026. My 2025 CX-90 has amazing controls.

You answered your own question...

Even Toyota is going touch now, with the 2026 models lacking climate control knobs.

I don't know why. Every review always praised the previous models for the physical buttons, and literally nobody asked for them. The physical buttons were perfect, yet they've taken them away.

There must be some grand anti-button conspiracy, it just doesn't make any sense.

Chasing trends and it's now cheaper to have a single touchscreen with software controls than to design and manufacture physical controls.

There’s less need for a physical button for those things now that climate control algo has become so good it has been on Auto the entire time for me.

A screen costs 75, a button is 1 each. You get a lot more that 100 buttons on a screen.

Not to mention the physical space a button takes.

I agree with all you said.

When I read from article:

> The fact that richer and better-educated parents are freely choosing to pour more of their valuable time into childcare makes raising children sound practically like a “luxury good,” akin to buying a Rolex watch or a fragile Fabergé egg.

It kind of reflected an unawareness to me. Unless one crosses the threshold of wealth where they can afford full-time 24/7 nanny, the richer parents spending more time in childcare seems obvious and non-counterintuitive. It is more likely jobs that pay well also provide flexible working hours and locations so these parents can really afford to spend more time in childcare. And this would much more prevalent category then families who could afford hired help for child care.

On the other hand poorer parent with much stringent job conditions would be mentally and physically exhausted to provide much childcare.

> I think some modern opinions of parenting come from a very individualistic, transactional and reciprocal mindset. ..

I think family unit like almost every other thing in modern economy has fallen victim to financialization of society.

Well it is worth considering. Unless one think they and their children can just exist beyond space and time of where society, economy exist.

society and economy are shaped by the needs of the people in it.

they easiest because of our needs. we don't exist to meet its needs.

In the 1960s when single-parent households were a thing, it was not unusual for households to have little to no indoor plumbing or regular electricity.

Nowadays such a lifestyle will get social workers on your ass, unless you can get some Mennonite or Amish preacher or something to vouch for you. After a long enough period of failing to meet some arbitrary modern "quality of life" that can only be afforded by going along with the mainstreams economic system and expectations, the legal system will likely get involved in some capacity.

Economy is a bit of a one way valve. If you don't flow with it they'll rip away your children and then you'll be dumped to the curb along with the homeless or other inmates at the jail.

It may be because some folks do not consider Human Rights as Rights.

It's because people like you don't consider the indigenous people of Judea and Sumarea to be people, and you think it's OK to rape and murder them--as do the folks at "RightsCon"