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[-] Vespair@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 months ago

Pfft. Making things hotter is easy. The fact that we can regularly make things colder and hold them at that colder temperature is what's actually impressive in thermodynamics

[-] thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months ago

Pfft the absolute human hubris to hold up these entropic sleight-of-hand tricks as impressive. Nature abhors a refrigerator. Heaters are the ultimate power in the universe.

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 months ago

Our entire existence is a temporary rebellion against entropy. In light of that, hubris seems inevitable. I reckon a little bit of it is useful for us

[-] thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago

You inspired me

I do not fear the motion of my feet.
Though every step be toward the final bourn,
I see no path to orderly retreat.

The energy assigned in brief to me
No art preserves, no science can reform.
And so I boldly choose what is to be

The range and purpose of my tiny mete.
I will not, while I can, myself pre-mourn,
But rage, rage against the rising of the heat.