Sadness comes in many forms

That's why you gotta FIFO
- Turn that stack into a queue.
- That's why I always put my clothes at the bottom of a pile and then rotate in a fresh pile when the previous one is used up.

I always let the oven timer beep a few times, even if I’m standing right there, so it doesn’t feel frustrated that it’s not serving its purpose.
- Nah, unnecessary noise makers can get fucked. I have a tower fan that has a mute button to prevent beeping, I love it so much i bought a second one.
  
  One of the best things about having knowledge in component level electronics is being able to open up consumer electronics and disable unnecessary lights and speakers. Personal table top fans are a big offender here. Lots of folks use them at night, and there's no reason they need to have 10 bright blue LEDs lit all the time the fan has power.
  
  Why would you buy a fan that beeps?
  
  I’d say a beep for an oven is not unnecessary. Quite the opposite. The last thing you’d want to do is leave your food in the oven too long. Best case scenario it gets overcooked. Worst case: your house/apartment burns down. Yes, it’s annoying, but in this case, it’s worth it.
  
  What do you do with the second mute button?
  
  I agree for the most part. I just have a special relationship with the oven timer.

That's why I slide clean plates under the pile
- Why are you putting clean plates under a pile of toilet paper?

Not trying to be rude or stupid, but is projecting emotions onto inanimate objects and being emotionally affected by imaginarily anthropomorphised circumstances a neurotypical thing? I remember in high school chemistry class when my classmates were awing and giddy over how “cute” a ~1” tall and 1/2” diameter beaker was and I just couldn’t understand.
- I feel like it's the other way around
- The way you phrased your question is neither rude, nor stupid. It’s a valid question.
  Yes, a lot of people like to humanize objects. It makes them fun and/or relatable. It’s not much different than seeing shapes in clouds.
- Have you ever had any kind of emotional reaction, even a mild, one to this lamp?
  
  I understand the purpose of anthropomorphizing for the sake of narrative storytelling. But I don’t relate to people unwillingly imagining an inanimate object to be sentient and emotive to such an intense degree that the imaginer is affected by it. I’ve pondered with purpose over writing metaphors or fantasy worldbuilding, but it has been with intent rather than passively.
  (And yes, my most recent emotional reaction to that lamp was disappointment with a couple of areas of the design of its new Lego set)
- Humans will pack bond with anything
- Cute isn't an emotion, it's a visual trait.
  
  It’s a set of qualities (small, eyes too big for head, head too big for body, or an approximation of such in non animal objects) that evokes an emotional response (affectionate, protective, nurturing) which is an evolutionary development that prevents us from eating our succulent babies.
  
  Cute is a stimulus that causes a release of dopamine, which affects our emotions. It’s not uncommon for someone to simplify that by saying cute = emotion.
  
  That’s correct. I brought up the beaker scenario since the characterization of the inanimate object was adjacent to anthropomorphizing and it was an example in which I was the anomaly of the crowd.
- Even among neurotypicals there is neurodiversity.
  (inb4 IKEA lamp advert)
- I always assumed it was more the other way around. I never hear my NT friends etc about feeling sad for the wonky apple in the supermarket to the point that you must buy it, because you know other people will ignore it.