new rule: If it can say no to you, you don't own it.
people: Can say no, you don't own them
bandsaw: safety guards can be worked around, can't really say no in a meaningful way. You own it.
mobile phone: Tells you no repeatedly. You don't own it.

@emily_s @airtower Where do things that CAN say no, but out of necessity the no must be ignored, fall?

Thinking mostly of, like, trying to put a cat in a carrier with this.

@Mhera @airtower tricky... Somewhere around the safety guards on powertools. "I don't like this but you can force it if you have to"

But also there was another reply earlier that mentioned the cats owning humans