It’s unclear why we’re suddenly having issues with the laundry machines. They were very good for a long time. Could be nanites, could be spiders ... or maybe someone’s experiments produce an electromagnetic aura with unforseen properties.
If your clothes look like they’ve been beaten on a rock in the moat ... well, we’re doing the best we can with what we have to work with.
Perhaps some of Darks’ dessicated coffee made its way into someone’s clothes, and the reconstitution of same caused the appliances to rebel.
And washing clothes on rocks in the moat is certainly better than the alternative...having them eaten by the washers. I mean, we’re a free society and all that, but we DO like our clothes!
I blame the newfangled detergent “pods”.