I have lived in the USA on and off for 23 years. I am so dismayed by the election result. It does not reflect the States that I know and love. Admittedly, all my time there has been in California. All my friends, except one, are staunch democrats. This result shows how little I understand about the country.
Anyway, misery and pain.

On a brighter note, I unload washing from the washing machine whereupon I find my iPhone. I suppose it must have been in an obscure trouser pocket. Astonishingly. it works perfectly!

Yes, a horrifying result. America is a strange place.
Are you using traditional cold wash for your clothes? Maybe the phone would have been cooked in a hot wash? Could do with some of your local weather here – not the rain. 8C tomorrow!
Help!
Anyway, yes all washing machines in Japan only have cold water cycles. My phone would likely been boiled with a hot water cycle.
Weather wonderful at the moment. The heat has finally diminished. thank God!