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[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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.