Snacktivism is the act of supporting a social or political cause through the consumption of certain foods or beverages, often with the intent of raising awareness or funding for the cause.
I participated in snacktivism by purchasing fair trade chocolate to support ethical labor practices in the cocoa industry.
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Get the Snacktivism mug.Once upon a time, there was a word called "snackident." It referred to the act of eating a snack unintentionally. For example, you might be walking past a bowl of chips and accidentally grab a handful. Or you might be watching TV and realize you've eaten an entire bag of popcorn without even noticing. The word quickly caught on and became a popular term among snack-lovers everywhere. People even started using it as an excuse for their snacking habits. "Oh, I didn't mean to eat that whole bag of candy, it was a snackident!" The word is now a part of the Urban Dictionary, and snackidents are a common occurrence in households around the world.
I had a snackident last night while watching my favorite show and ate an entire bag of chips without even realizing it.
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by A.Dodger July 8, 2023
Get the Snackident mug.A spacetime mirror is a hypothetical construct in speculative physics and science fiction that reflects not just the three spatial dimensions but also the time dimension. Unlike a standard 3D mirror, which reverses light rays along an axis perpendicular to its surface, a spacetime mirror would reverse along a hyperplane perpendicular to 3+1 spacetime dimensions. The concept serves as a thought experiment to explore the complexities of higher-dimensional spaces and the nature of time.
In the sci-fi novel, the characters used a spacetime mirror to reverse the events of the past and alter the future.
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Get the Spacetime Mirror mug.(noun) An unplanned and often regretful event where you accidentally eat an entire bag of chips, carton of ice cream, or sleeve of cookies without realizing it until it’s too late.
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Example: A "black hole server farm." You lower a sealed compute pod toward the event horizon of a small, artificial black hole. From the perspective of distant operators, time for the pod grinds almost to a halt due to intense gravity. The pod performs an impossibly complex calculation (like modeling climate over millennia) in what feels like a few hours of external time. You then retrieve it, having effectively performed vast amounts of computation in a short external timeframe. It's the ultimate overclocking—using gravity to freeze a processor's clock so it can do more ticks relative to the outside world. It's Spacetime Computing.
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Get the Spacetime Computing mug.The hypothetical (and probably impossible) idea of sending information using or through the fabric of spacetime itself, rather than through it. This includes notions like wormhole comms, quantum entanglement "spooky action" that somehow transmits data, or manipulating gravity waves to carry a signal. It's the dream of instant, non-local chat across the universe, violating the standard light-speed limit by treating space and time as a manipulable medium.
Example: In sci-fi, this is the ansible. A more "physics-y" but still speculative example might be creating and stabilizing two entangled quantum wormholes (Einstein-Rosen bridges), one kept on Earth and one sent to a colony ship. Modulating the quantum state of one instantly affects the other, in theory allowing for faster-than-light messaging. In reality, it's probably a pipe dream that breaks causality, but it's the go-to concept for any story that needs galactic empires to have a functioning internet. It's Spacetime Communication.
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