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[–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 65 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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 56 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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 23 points 2 months ago
  1. You can't win
  2. You can't break even
  3. You can't get out of the game
[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] renzhexiangjiao@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

you can't escape the second law of thermodynamics

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

the universe is the ultimate escape room

[–] wischi@programming.dev 4 points 2 months 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.

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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 2 months ago (2 children)

What an awful thing to read with a diarrhea.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your diarrhea can read? Aww

[–] FantasmaNaCasca@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

Be thankful it's just one diarrhea.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ignoring context is often the key to humor.

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Jokes quite often rely on imperfect superficial information, precisely because thinking too much about the subject matter contradicts whatever is being said in the joke. It's a form of artistic license.

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you, I was being a troll but I appreciate the explanation

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It's the same for vermin and pest plants. You decide what's part of it, depending on if it's useful for you or not.

[–] renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 10 points 2 months ago

It ends in compost (or it should).

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 2 months ago (2 children)

You mean when the vacuum cleaner comes?

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

'She's switched from Suck to Blow!'

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

the cosmic vacuum cleaner

[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 2 months ago (1 children)

universal bigotry wins

Have you considered working in physics?

[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months 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).

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

New enemy acquired: people who use "smth"

[–] match@pawb.social 11 points 2 months ago

shaking my tiny head

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

It's short for "smith"

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months 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!

[–] M137@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months 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

[–] Aksamit@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months ago

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

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

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

[–] pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

thankful foe mycelium

[–] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] wieson@feddit.org 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] wieson@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

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

So the final rag is our air.

[–] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

The cleaning ended for me.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] quilan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago
[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 weeks ago

This explains why I don't clean. I will clean my room later then because of this.