• essell@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Yeah, they’re equivalent, they’re not the same!

    A toaster that uses the equivalent electricity as a PC can’t run games except Doom.

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      26 days ago

      The electricity takes the same form in both examples. Just like matter and energy, they’re the same under different circumstances, though in the case of matter and energy its more like a differencs of magnitude and concentration like a toaster and a hydroelectric dam.

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          25 days ago

          Dough and bread are chemically dissimilar, there have been numerous types of reactions and denaturing in the dough as it was baked.