The philosophy of engaging in political activism but limiting that engagement to posting on social media.
by riskdoctor2 April 18, 2018
Get the reactivism mug.The "Rooftop Theory of Relativity" was created in the early summer of 2007. It is named such because at the time of its creation the theorists were conversing on the rooftop of their residence. The theory is rather simple and is described as follows: "Everything is relative."
by steako October 7, 2008
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Being dependent or intertwined with another event or object that is just as dependant as the other.
Cause and effect.
Being dependent or intertwined with another event or object that is just as dependant as the other.
Cause and effect.
ERIC
I punch you in the face, you'll punch back, right?
VALLEN
Yeah.
ERIC
Your hitting me back is reative to me hitting you in the face.
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A Bank owner is very hard on a Farming family. The family is forced out of their house and loose everything, living in poverty. The Banker prospers with their loss. (1)
For 20 years, the family lives in poverty, barely surviving. Eventualy, one of the family members is forced to rob a bank to survive. The bank that is robbed happens to be the same bank which forced thim into poverty. (2)
The Banker looses everything from the robbery. He resorts to drugs (3) and one day, in a drug impared state, he decides to go and buy more drugs. He has a car accident. (4)
From the car accident, he is paralyzed from the neck down and cannot speak for the rest of his life. (5)
1. The Banker's prosperity is relative to the families suffering.
2. The bank robbery is relative to the Banker's being hard on the family.
3. The drugs are relative to the bank robbery.
4. The car accident is relative to the drugs.
5. the paralysis is relative to the car accidsent
In conclusion, the man's paralysis is relative to his being hard on the family, he bought it upon himself.
I punch you in the face, you'll punch back, right?
VALLEN
Yeah.
ERIC
Your hitting me back is reative to me hitting you in the face.
-ALSO-
A Bank owner is very hard on a Farming family. The family is forced out of their house and loose everything, living in poverty. The Banker prospers with their loss. (1)
For 20 years, the family lives in poverty, barely surviving. Eventualy, one of the family members is forced to rob a bank to survive. The bank that is robbed happens to be the same bank which forced thim into poverty. (2)
The Banker looses everything from the robbery. He resorts to drugs (3) and one day, in a drug impared state, he decides to go and buy more drugs. He has a car accident. (4)
From the car accident, he is paralyzed from the neck down and cannot speak for the rest of his life. (5)
1. The Banker's prosperity is relative to the families suffering.
2. The bank robbery is relative to the Banker's being hard on the family.
3. The drugs are relative to the bank robbery.
4. The car accident is relative to the drugs.
5. the paralysis is relative to the car accidsent
In conclusion, the man's paralysis is relative to his being hard on the family, he bought it upon himself.
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Get the relativities mug.A fallacy where someone dismisses arguments by labeling them "relativism." The label functions as automatic refutation: relativism is assumed obviously self-refuting, so labeling an argument relativist ends discussion. The fallacy lies in treating the label as proof, ignoring that sophisticated relativisms exist and that labeling doesn't engage content. It's philosophical name-calling dressed as critique.
"I suggested that truth might be perspective-dependent. Response: 'That's just relativism—self-refuting!' That's Hoc Est Relativismus Fallacy—using the label as a dismissal, not engaging the position. Maybe it's relativist; maybe it's something else. The label doesn't prove self-refutation; argument does. But labeling avoids argument."
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Get the relatilism mug.The art of exploiting the freaky time and space distortions predicted by Einstein's Special Relativity to make computers do wild shit. The core idea: if you move a processor or memory at a significant fraction of light speed relative to another part of the system, time literally slows down for the fast-moving part (time dilation). This could let you perform ultra-fast calculations from a slower-moving observer's perspective or solve problems where synchronization is fucked by relativity.
Example: Imagine a financial trading AI hosted on a satellite in a super-fast orbit. From Earth's perspective, its clock ticks slower. It could run millions more simulated market scenarios in what feels like a blink of an eye down here, executing trades before its earthbound competitors even finish booting up. Alternatively, a "relativistic blockchain" where consensus is achieved by comparing timestamps from nodes moving at different velocities, making it unhackable unless you can mess with the fabric of spacetime itself. It's Relativistic Computing.
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