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

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

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days 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?

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ignoring context is often the key to humor.

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What an awful thing to read with a diarrhea.

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

Your diarrhea can read? Aww

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

Be thankful it's just one diarrhea.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days 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.

[–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 65 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 57 points 3 days 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 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)
  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 days ago

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

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago
[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days 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 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You mean when the vacuum cleaner comes?

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

'She's switched from Suck to Blow!'

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

the cosmic vacuum cleaner

[–] M137@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days 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

[–] renzhexiangjiao@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

you can't escape the second law of thermodynamics

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

the universe is the ultimate escape room

[–] wischi@programming.dev 3 points 3 days 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.

[–] renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 10 points 3 days ago

It ends in compost (or it should).

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)

New enemy acquired: people who use "smth"

[–] match@pawb.social 11 points 3 days ago

shaking my tiny head

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

It's short for "smith"

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days 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!

[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days 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 days ago (1 children)

universal bigotry wins

Have you considered working in physics?

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

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] quilan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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

[–] Aksamit@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 days ago

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

[–] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days 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 7 points 2 days 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?

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

The cleaning ended for me.

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] wieson 2 points 2 days ago

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

So the final rag is our air.

[–] pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

thankful foe mycelium