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[-] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To reduce entropy at one place (make it ordered), it has to increase at another place.

This whole universe is rigged! lol

edit: typo

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 58 points 1 year ago

Welcome to thermodynamics, where the rules are:

1-You cannot win, only lose or break even.

2-You can only break even at absolute zero.

3-You can not reach absolute zero.

[-] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago
  1. You can't win
  2. You can't break even
  3. You can't get out of the game
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[-] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds like you're gambling with physics there. /S

[-] renzhexiangjiao@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 year ago

you can't escape the second law of thermodynamics

[-] wischi@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

In theory you can because the second law is actually a statistical and probabilistic thing. Currently it looks like that the laws of physics are time direction independent. So if you play a physics simulation forwards and backwards you couldn't tell the difference for a small number of particles so it it actually can (and does on very small time scales) happen that entropy decreases.

[-] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

the universe is the ultimate escape room

[-] MTK@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I think context is key here. Your floor is dirty when you poop on it, but is your colon dirty when it has poop in it?

Your plate is dirty when it has left over food on it, but is it dorty while you are eating from it?

[-] serenissi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

What an awful thing to read with a diarrhea.

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Your diarrhea can read? Aww

[-] FantasmaNaCasca@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Two pieces of shit go down the road, puting the masks, to enter and rob the bank.
A diarrhea asks if it can come too.
One of the pieces of shit says:
"This is for tough ones."

[-] meliaesc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Be thankful it's just one diarrhea.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Ignoring context is often the key to humor.

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[-] renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 11 points 1 year ago

It ends in compost (or it should).

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

but then when the universe dies and someone comes to clean it off, all that mess will just be smeared all over something else

[-] wieson@feddit.org 3 points 1 year ago

You mean when the vacuum cleaner comes?

[-] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

'She's switched from Suck to Blow!'

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

the cosmic vacuum cleaner

[-] M137@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

In the game Warframe you have a schizophrenic ship AI who has lots of funny voice lines, he sometimes says this:

"Ordis went mad for 3 milliseconds when he realized that each time he cleans something he makes something else dirty... agh! There I go again."

Here's the audio:

https://mega.nz/file/GJoHgaCZ#9HWD48-h-HuVWdxEsX6WSJ_P9jNwZ0FMp4OMPtoGLO4

[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

New enemy acquired: people who use "smth"

[-] match@pawb.social 12 points 1 year ago

shaking my tiny head

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It's short for "smith"

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

They will be sent to the same gulag where we send people who say "the ask", "the spend" or "emails". Get on the bus!

[-] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Ah, life: An unceasing battle against thermodynamics that can end only in inevitable failure. In the end, even the vaguest echoes of the causal memories of us will be wiped clean when the rightful order is fully restored, universal bigotry wins, and everything is - finally - completely homogeneous.

And boring.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago

universal bigotry wins

Have you considered working in physics?

[-] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Not beyond the level of a profoundly fascinated hobbyist. I know my limits :)

Professionally, I'll stick to my closely parallel lane in computing (no Black Holes involved - the I/O is notoriously difficult to manage, more's the pity).

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The secret is to clean a big thing by dirtying a little thing.

[-] Aksamit@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

Me trying to explain to my therapist why everything is going to shit.

[-] pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

thankful foe mycelium

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago
[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But then here in like 10^10^10^56 years*, a new big bang will probably happen and the cycle starts anew

*It doesn't actually matter what units you use, milliseconds and stellar lifespans are the same at this scale

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[-] quilan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This has always been one of my favorite short stories. For those who might not know the reference: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html

[-] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

While funny, its not actually that deep. Either the last cleaning item gets thrown away, or put in a machine to be cleaned. Thats the end of it.

[-] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 year ago

Right, but then the machine gets dirty or the water it uses gets dirty, or the rubbish bin you threw it into gets dirty. Where does it end? Kinda fucked up ngl

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Dirt cant be dirty. Just throw the water into dirt

[-] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Dirty is dirt's natural state.

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[-] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

It ends then. Bins and machines get cleaned very infrequently.

[-] wieson@feddit.org 7 points 1 year ago

And the water goes into the sewage and to a water treatment plant. But where do they put the dirt from the plant?

[-] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They have bacteria digest as much as possible and burn the leftovers.

[-] wieson@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago

Digestion probably forms CO2 or Methane, burning definitely does form CO2.

So the final rag is our air.

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