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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

Miracles Memes

Posts tagged with Miracles

The Thermodynamic Miracle Switcheroo

Physics Science
4 months ago 28.7K views 0 shares
The Thermodynamic Miracle Switcheroo
The ultimate physics throwdown! A bearded guy claims to be divine by presenting a rock that's somehow getting hotter without any heat source—a straight-up violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The skeptical crowd isn't buying the "sometimes rocks just get hot" explanation, pointing out that spontaneous energy creation would literally break the universe. The punchline? After all that thermodynamic debate, he just makes wine instead. Classic misdirection! The comic brilliantly pokes fun at how miracle claims often fall apart under scientific scrutiny... until they conveniently switch to something less testable. The thermodynamics here is actually solid—heat naturally flows from hot to cold objects, never the reverse, unless work is done on the system. So a rock spontaneously heating up? That's physics blasphemy!

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My Arduino spins faster when Claude burns more tokens

Repurposed a broken Stirling-engine chassis as a desk toy that spins when Claude Code is busy and dies when I lock my Mac. Arduino + Kasa + Python. Read article →

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