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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

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thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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- AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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
  
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  - thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.
    
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