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I made this instead (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 days ago by einfach_orangensaft to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 78 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Life is just one big fight against entropy

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Local entropy, that is. At a global scale, life increases entropy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yep, and life basically is entropy; or entropy causes life, the great mixing!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

Wait, it's all entropy?

Always has been 👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Bugs and trash are bad entropy, food and people are good entropy. Until people look like bugs and trash, then you do fascism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

At a global scale, everything increases entropy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Well, nothing increases it, but aren't there contexts where it is unchanged? Vacuum and single isolated particles don't increase entropy I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Life is an orderly system of producing disorder

[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Just adding energy into the system.

[–] einfach_orangensaft 12 points 5 days ago

i misread that in my first reply, my adding energy (low entropy) to my high entropy system i stay alive

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You fool, you utter buffoon, by doing this you increase entropy even more!

(and by "doing this" I mean doing literally anything)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Nonsense, entropy is a zero sum game…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Hence why I never tidied up my room as a child. My mom is in on it

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Only sometimes. Other times, you want to add extra entropy, so you can have a nice hot dinner.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Entropy giveth and entropy taketh away

[–] einfach_orangensaft 4 points 5 days ago

i would ague that that would actually be low entropy, cuz the amount of heat energy (high entropy) in the meal is quite low compared to the chemical energy it holds (low entropy), hence overall a hot meal is still low in entropy, and by ingesting it i transfer its low entropy into my system (body)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

I am entropy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I say, let entropy work for you!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Thank god for fridges

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Entropy lurks everywhere.