To reduce entropy at one place (make it ordered), it has to increase at another place.
This whole universe is rigged! lol
edit: typo
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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.
Sounds like you're gambling with physics there. /S
you can't escape the second law of thermodynamics
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.
the universe is the ultimate escape room
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?
What an awful thing to read with a diarrhea.
Your diarrhea can read? Aww
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."
Be thankful it's just one diarrhea.
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It ends in compost (or it should).
New enemy acquired: people who use "smth"
shaking my tiny head
smth the matter?
Ugh
It's short for "smith"
They will be sent to the same gulag where we send people who say "the ask", "the spend" or "emails". Get on the bus!
but then when the universe dies and someone comes to clean it off, all that mess will just be smeared all over something else
You mean when the vacuum cleaner comes?
'She's switched from Suck to Blow!'
the cosmic vacuum cleaner
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
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.
universal bigotry wins
Have you considered working in physics?
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).
Me trying to explain to my therapist why everything is going to shit.
The secret is to clean a big thing by dirtying a little thing.
thankful foe mycelium
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.
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
Dirt cant be dirty. Just throw the water into dirt
Dirty is dirt's natural state.
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It ends then. Bins and machines get cleaned very infrequently.
And the water goes into the sewage and to a water treatment plant. But where do they put the dirt from the plant?
They have bacteria digest as much as possible and burn the leftovers.
Digestion probably forms CO2 or Methane, burning definitely does form CO2.
So the final rag is our air.
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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
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
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