"Chocolate world."

"Yeah."

"Why? It seems so - rich. Granted I haven't seen much of it but you've invented so many things and still can't -?"

"Oh, god, I could give you a whole lecture on why the world sucks--it's a distribution problem, mostly, the vast majority of the wealth is in the hands of a few people and they'd do just about anything rather than part with a fraction of it to make sure the people on the very bottom get fed and clothed and housed and so on."

"I guess that's not so different."

"People are people pretty much everywhere," she sighs.

"Mm."

"Sorry we're not a fabulous utopia," she says sincerely.

"It's still pretty great but I admit I was hoping for a fabulous utopia!"

"It would've been awesome! We're getting better at stuff but we're still kind of embarrassing, really."

"What else?"

"Uh, racism, sexism, transphobia, there are some countries with less widespread industrial development and those have attendant problems, pollution..."

"...transphobia's not translating..."

"--Uh, sometimes someone's born with the genitals associated with the opposite gender, and sometimes people aren't a man or a woman at all, and sometimes they're both, and transphobia is the insistence that people who do anything other than go 'Okay, this is what my crotch looks like, I guess that's what gender I am' are doing something wrong. Or rather 'okay, this is what my crotch looked like when I was born,' sometimes people get surgery to change what genitals they have."

"...I'm not sure if we have that or if I just don't get it."

She shrugs. "I'm not exactly a Gender Studies textbook."

"Okay."

"Sorry."

"It's no big deal."

Shrug. "At least we have chocolate?"

"You do! That's pretty great."

"It is! Chocolate and bacon and oh maybe I should make macaroni and cheese, I bet you've never had that before."

"I have not."

"It's great, done right."

"I look forward to it!"