why is france called the hexagon when its abundantly clear that it’s a pentagon
what
mmm i guess i see it i was definitely seeing 1 and 2 as one side plus the left and right sides slope out more
yeah tbh i see how you can see 1 and 2 as one side
actually its a decagon
careful apollo might hear you
ok but if we r being really pedantic it’s a triacontakaipentagon (35 sides)
Tumblr accidentally rediscovers the coastline paradox
For anyone that didn’t feel like googling it, the coastline paradox is realizing that you can make the coastline as long or short as you want based on how detailed you want to be while measuring and mapping. This is exemplified in a simplistic way by the posts above.
Also wrt the Mongol custom of execution of nobles/those highly respected by the sovereign by being wrapped in carpet and trampled to death bc it allowed the person to not suffer the ignominy of their blood touching the ground (in theory), I gotta say that sure did lead to an epic “lost in translation” moment after the siege and destruction of Baghdad when Caliph Al-Musta’sim was killed by Hulagu Khan by means of being wrapped up and trampled by elephants since that moment is usually given as an example of the savagery of the Ill-Khanate’s capture of Baghdad.
Like, maybe Hulagu was like “Oh fuck we might’ve gone a little bit overboard with the slaughter and pillaging of the city uhhhh hey get their spiritual leader and have him get trampled by horses you know a really noble death actually you know what make it elephants because those are even bigger and cooler than horses yeah that’ll get people on our side”
The reverse of this would be that time during the Mongol invasion of Hungary when local people had heard that the Mongol coalition actually has a lot of Christians in their rank which was true but Central Asian Nestorian Christianity was pretty isolated from Latin Christianity so they had different customs and the Hungarian townsfolk didn’t realize this when they attempted to make an appeal to their co-religionists by having a religious procession in front of the Mongol army where they prominently displayed the bones of saints kept in the local cathedral and like Central Asian Nestorian Christians didn’t have a tradition of treating remains of saints as relics. So when they did that it didn’t come off as “Hey! We’re also Christian! Don’t attack us! Don’t take everything we have!” and more like “Hey… what the fuck is up with those people parading around fucking skeletons in our direction? wtf is that supposed to mean? Is it supposed to mean ‘death’? Like they’re gonna make us look like those skeletons? Those motherfuckers are taunting us in this situation?? Well, cant say I dont admire their courage but you all know what the drill is we go in loot everything and burn it to the ground and sell any survivors into slavery alright lets go” and then they did that
