@whitequark Fun fact: This is why women's suffrage didn't happen in Switzerland until 1971. Swiss women did nothing to support Britain's World War I effort due to Switzerland's neutrality.

"You don't talk much do you?"
"No. I am counting how many times the sand clock fl... - "
"Flips over, yeah, I get it. You're a funny man. Do you play an instrument? Music is good for the soul."
I can smell his brain boiling in his skull.

Whenever the computer takes a second to process our input, he immediately, desperately, tries to have small talk to escape the suffering of watching that little sand clock flip over. Each attempt gets a one word answer. He tries again, immediately. He has more questions than the clock has grains of sand. We are each other's hell.

Thankfully I am autistic enough that that does not detract me from explaining myself to completion. You will hear me out. That is a promise and a threat.

@mrsbeanbag think "Surely this whole mess would be resolved once I would go to the designer, give them their own thing, and just say 'Hold this' or 'Use this'." And then you think "Wait, did they seriously not do that, ever?!" There's so much stuff where they genuinely didn't. Designed a bottle opener and obviously never once opened a beer with it. Designed a cup and obviously never once drank some coffee from it. It baffles me every time. Once a week, "... like that opener in uni"

@mrsbeanbag In the student café where I hung out in uni, we had a bottle opener that supposedly opened wine and beer. But the corkscrew part was just a bit too long, or mounted a bit too far in the middle of the thing. You had to fold it out to open a beer, or it would poke into the beer opener so that the corkscrew would poke the beer bottle's neck and the beer opener would be nowhere near the bottle cap. I think about that opener once a week. There are so many things out there where you