it's always exciting to share worldbuilding/ author thoughts with major spoilers to friends who Will Certainly not read the story to be spoiled but have absorbed the plot via osmosis
advertising should be illegal. Full stop, there's been maybe a handful of times where it was meaningful or useful to humans but now it's meant for imaginary lines in the sky
in my meager defense both machines sound the same. against my meager defense my dryer balls were out in the laundry basket and all I thought was "oh no now my laundry is going to be all staticky