...aaaand that's ANOTHER ten SECONDS that you'll never get back from COMPLAINING about it!

What you sarcastically quip back at someone who is bemoaning da fact dat he wasted ten minutes of his life doing something dat turned out to be useless.

Dude #1 (having just super-briefly talked to customer-service after waiting an absurdly long time to get connected): Man, what an insufferable delay just being stuck on hold --- THAT'S ten minutes of my life that I'll never get back!
Dude #2: ...aaaand that's ANOTHER ten SECONDS that you'll never get back from COMPLAINING about it!

by QuacksO April 29, 2024

Long-Duration Motion Machines of the Second Kind (LDMM2)

Devices designed for extreme-duration motion by optimizing against the Second Law of Thermodynamics—not violating it, but approaching its limits asymptotically. The Second Law says entropy increases; LDMM2 fight entropy by creating near-perfect isolation from dissipative processes. They don't reverse entropy; they just slow its increase to a crawl. A supercooled ring levitating in vacuum, spinning for thousands of years—that's LDMM2. The energy gradually dissipates, but so slowly that human civilization could rise and fall while it's still spinning. LDMM2 are the thermodynamic equivalent of putting your leftovers in a freezer that lasts millennia: entropy still wins, but it takes its time.

Long-Duration Motion Machines of the Second Kind (LDMM2) "They've got gyroscopes in space that will spin for thousands of years before slowing down. That's LDMM2—not defying the Second Law, just making it work overtime. The universe still wins, but it has to wait. LDMM2 is what happens when engineers decide to play the long game against entropy itself."

by Dumu The Void March 1, 2026

Remmission Artistry Starts At 3 Nano Seconds And Ends In Five Minutes

Remmission Artistry Starts At 3 Nano Seconds And Ends In Five Minutes

Remmission Artistry Starts At 3 Nano Seconds And Ends In Five Minutes

by SuelTameOresuTeMato May 2, 2025

you just wasted a few seconds reading this

you just wasted a few seconds reading this

you just wasted a few seconds reading this

by anonymous June 11, 2025

I may be two-tenths of a split-second late

A playfully-overprecise remark that you tell someone to let him know that you may be briefly delayed in meeting up with him, and so he should simply wait for you if you don't arrive at precisely the moment when you said you would.

Cool dude, texting to his buddy on his smart-phone as he's hurriedly scuttling along the downtown sidewalk: "I've had a last-minute errand that I gotta run real quick, so I may be two-tenths of a split-second late --- no worries, though, Bro --- I'll still shoot some hoops wif youse, just as I promised."

by QuacksO October 2, 2018

I haven't talked to her in like 30 seconds

Come on, she is my best fwend!!!

The bad excuse to talk to your fwend in cass

Come on, I haven't talked to her in like 30 seconds

by VicenaryCave February 28, 2019

Why does the the brain not notice the the second 'the' in the title?

Why?

Jimothy: Let me read this title: "Why does the (the second the was skipped when reading) brain not notice the second 'the-" wait a moment this is fake.
Jill: Why does the the brain not notice the the second 'the' in the title? is what it says
Sammy + Jimothy: Aeugh
Nick: i ship Jill + Jimo-
Jill: *pulls revolver*
Nick: Runs

by idontevenknowwhatalifeis May 20, 2022