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It just absolutely fascinates me that each of these hexagonal tiles has the same pattern, but that the resultant overall result can be so variable.
Tessellation longread in Wikipedia.
Washington, District of Columbia
Washington, District of Columbia
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Every place has a local cryptid; more places need a local Pictish Beast, a creature in historical art that's drawn so weirdly that no one can tell what animal it's supposed to be.
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Washington, District of Columbia
Washington, District of Columbia
I’m sure I’m not the first person to think in these terms, or the thousandth, but -
- there’s something to the idea of an anxious zeitgeist versus a secure zeitgeist, right?
Which is not the same as “things being bad” versus “things being good.” Things can be quite bad in a way that doesn’t require, or reward, a lot of worrying about the situation becoming worse for you or your people. Things can be overall really excellent but also scarily volatile on the micro-scale.
I would really prefer to live in a world of kooks and cults than in a world that engenders a lot of Pride and Prejudice shit.
Okay I thought I had you, until that last sentence. I don’t get how sz and az map to those two things. like az to p&p seems obvious but…?
Culty weirdness is often thought to be a dangerous failure mode of people spinning their wheels because they’re secure enough to survive but can’t really advance (or don’t have enough reason to want to advance).
Since almost everything I treasure in life falls under the umbrella heading of “culty weirdness,” I am not especially scared of this tradeoff. But I am not blind to it.
Are you thinking of P&P as an anxious one? Because while there is an element of stability in that world, everyone is *extremely* worried about their place in it.
…yes. That’s the point. P&P is about a world where it’s extremely hard for most people to construct personal commitments to any ideas other than “I should be successful and not ruined.”
Washington, District of Columbia
Pastor Paula White (2nd L) and other faith leaders pray behind US President Donald Trump during a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 1, 2025. © Jim Watson, AFPAs reported by France 24:
Thousands of people gathered Sunday in downtown Washington for a mass prayer festival featuring speeches by top Trump administration officials – an event critics see as an overt display of Christian nationalism undermining the separation of church and state...The gathering was organized by the White House as part of a program of celebrations for America's 250th anniversary and, in a video message inviting Americans to attend, Hegseth said it was an opportunity to "rededicate this republic to God and country."Muscular Christian nationalism has enjoyed a prominent platform since Trump's return to power, and evangelicals form a core element of the president's support base...Attendee Sarah Tyson, holding a "Jesus Saves" sign, said she believes Trump was chosen by God to lead the nation through a new spiritual revival.
Addendum: Just to clarify one point, citing Heather Cox Richardson:
But the United States of America was not founded as a Christian nation. The Founders were quite clear about that. In the 1796 Treaty of Tripoli, ratified unanimously by the Senate just a decade after the Constitution went into effect, U.S. leaders said “the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion” and has “no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of” Muslims. They went on to say that “no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between” the U.S. and Tripoli.Thomas Jefferson, the key author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison of Virginia, the key thinker behind the Constitution, both wrote explicitly about the importance of keeping the government separate from religion. Jefferson wrote that “religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship.” “[T]he legitimate powers of government reach actions only,” he wrote, “[and] not [religious] opinions.”
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