If they could dance and sing they’d be Hugh Jackman

If your fish would get busy they could out-reproduce the heron

Link to the meme?

It’s a long commitment,. They might outlive you, assuming you don’t accidentally kill them.

I appreciate that you didn’t get mad about it. Of course it doesn’t matter here, but I point these things out in case people need to use them correctly in a serious situation.

No, we just have to do a little kindergarten (age 5) math, the difference between 12 and 15 is 3.

The 3rd-grade math (age 8) of figuring what time it will be 9 hours and 47 minutes later is equally difficult whether using 24h or am/pm. And may be easier using angles on an analog clockface, especially for an old fart like me.

The real problem with time isn’t 12h vs 24h. It’s the increments 12/24/60/30/15/5 when the rest of our system is base 10.

Oh and Daylight Savings. Jet lag without getting to go anywhere. Fuck that shit.

Mine was raised from the egg of a non wild turtle by someone else who found themselves unable to care for it and asked me to give it a home.

We use the 12 at both ends because there it is sitting at the top of the clock

I think it’s cheating to call it metric if it’s not decimal. Even some of the oldest analog clocks had 24-hour faces, they were just a bitch to read in a watch-size. You still have to do stupid math to figure out duration past the 12 or 24, and even with the 60 minutes/1 hour. Nothing metric or superior about it.

You start counting the hours to the next noon at midnight, duh. That’s why it’s ante-meridian, and the beginning of a new day. If you want to go around calling it 00:30, most people would understand, even in America.

“case in point” although "case and point " is arguably an eggcorn

12:30 pm is half-past noon.

12:30 am is half past midnight, or as you would say 00:30

The m is “meridian” which is noon (sun straight up)

The a is ante/before and the p is post/after

In olden days it was easier to look up and set your clock at noon than midnight.

If you choose that route, make sure it’s immense enough that you’ll never be prosecuted for it.

My box turtle mostly lives on soil, although he enjoys a paddle and soak in his water. But the main difference from a tortoise is that he’s omnivorous, needing protein like bugs, whereas they are herbivores.

Well now that’s not a bad point. Fortunately the weather was calm and cool and not too dry. And in the past I would have added, “and it’s in the city, not the hills,” but Altadena has proved a wildfire doesn’t have to be a brushfire.

Not exactly thousands.

I was watching the news as it happened and there were 20 employees onsite, all safely evacuated. One firefighter was injured, not seriously. Nobody lives there, it’s all warehouses, and at night they’ll have minimum staff. So in terms of harm to ordinary people it’s pretty minimal.

Mainly loss of livelihood for the 20 workers, but honestly it’s on the boss to redistribute them to help with the shift of orders through other warehouses. At least they should get any severance and paid days off they’re owed, and set up for worker’s comp.

LAFD firefighters are professional and paid, so it’s not calling a bunch of volunteers away from their jobs either.

Paper goods evidently burn really well but they apparently didn’t produce toxic fumes, or there would have been some warnings about it.

I’m not endorsing this kind of action, but it’s not like he set a nursing home or chemical plant on fire.

Or bombed a girls’ school full of children.

Pocket dimension quiver

Maglev shit, we need to be investing in teleport technology. Instead, any breakthroughs are being hushed up by Big Border.

After the 🐘🐘🐘🐘 it’s all Turtle. But The Great A’Tuin doesn’t stand on anything. It/She/He/They swims through space, with a purpose and destination unknown to us.

I remember in one of the Coloured Fairy Books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Langs’_Fairy_Books and I’m not going to try to find which one, there was a story where a kid was hanging out with the fairies and they went to a house and his in the thatch. They sprinkled pepper on the daughter so she’d sneeze. “If she sneezes 3 times without a bless-you, we can steal her!” She does twice, no blessings. On the 3rd sneeze the kid yells BLESS YOU at the top of his lungs, the fairies scatter and she’s saved. So at the very least, I make sure nobody is stolen by the fairies. Colored or otherwise. Consent matters.