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Well the missing socks have to get sent somewhere... /s
Given that one sperm has 27.5 MB of data (which means each orgasm has over 7 petabytes of information!) I think we can safely assume which socks his washer is transmitting.
Redundancy!
I believe that fluids don't, in general, compress. But maybe the trick is turning them to digital data first and then redundancy makes them very compressible.