#2724: Washing Machine Settings

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Cueball is standing in front of a large combination washing machine/dryer, holding a coat, wondering.]

Cueball: Okay, do I want "Colors (light)" or "Delicate"? Does delicate mean less agitation? Or a slower spin?

Cueball: I should Google, I bet clothing experts have experimented with various settings/clothing combos.

Cueball: Ooh, someone should make a tool that indexes people's results by washer model, so you can look up what settings to use for a given...

[Caption below the panel]:

Every now and then I forget that product manuals exist and spend a while reinventing them.


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:I guess the engineers who built my dishwasher MIGHT have some insight into how to load it, but instead of reading the booklet they gave me, it seems easier to experiment for years and then get in arguments so heated that I get banned from Quora.


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